[hobbit] CPU, Disk and memory message format to obtain valuable Graphs

[TJ Yang]

On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 7:10 AM, Gillis Bart <Bart.Gillis at cegeka.be> wrote:
> Hi tj,
>
> I've been using BBwin for several years now with great success.

In your BBWin deployment experience, Does BBWin really can do client
binary update like  the Unix client does ?

I am going to deploy BBwin at my work place, any advice is welcome.

I am also hoping to create my own BBWin012.msi so that I can include
the customization I need inside .msi file.

tj
> I would like to help the xymon community but I've 2 major problems with
> the participation to BBwin or Mr. Big.
>

> First of all I'm not a developer so I cannot write C programs.
> As a system engineer I can however write some scripting languages (Perl,
> vbscript,..) to provide some customized monitors.
>
> The latest year I had some issues with the mechanism of the BBwin or Mr.
> Big agents.
> We are monitoring some servers through a L2L VPN connection. In these
> link we are working with a dynamic NAT protocol so we do not know to
> which IP address the messages should be send.
> Our company does not allow connections being initiated from the outside
> network. (Which is the way BBwin works)

No experience in this area, others may be able to help.

> Another problem is the big bandwidth problem. On windows 2008 servers,
> the port check produces much info making the messages too big.

we should be able to configure BBWin to send in offending messages to
xymon server.

> Due to this problem I can't use BBWin nor Mr. Big.
>
> I found however a monitoring agent that perfectly matches with my
> previous mentioned remarks. (the Nagios check_nt agent that listens to
> the xymon server through a perl script.)
> So I would like to share my experience on this agent but unfortunately
> my lack of development skills don't permit me to participate in tha
> BBWin or Mr. Big agents.
> Despites the many man hours already put in the existing agenBB-win and
> Mr. Big, I have to continue with the Nagios agent (But I'm working on
> the nagios check_nrpe pligin that replaces the nagios check_nt plugin)
>
> Met vriendelijke groeten,
>
> Bart Gillis
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: TJ Yang [mailto:tjyang2001 at gmail.com]
> Sent: vrijdag 2 juli 2010 16:30
> To: hobbit at hswn.dk
> Subject: Re: [hobbit] CPU, Disk and memory message format to obtain
> valuable Graphs
>
> On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 2:37 AM, Gillis Bart <Bart.Gillis at cegeka.be>
> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>>
>>
>> I am developing another windows client based on the nagios nrpe
> plugin.
>>
>> The script is based on the checkwin monitor that you can find in
>> http://code.google.com/p/checkwin/
>>
>> Tests are going well but I have a problem with the graphs that are
> generated
>> for the disks, cpu and memory values.
>>
>> Can anyone help me with the format that I have to send to the xymon
> server?
>>
>> I don't know on which parameters the rrd files are generated for these
>> particular tests.
>>
>
> Hi, Bart
>
> Would you consider participate the maintenance  of BBWin or Mr. Big ?
> These two projects have many man-hours put in already and they are
> currently  stale/dead at the moment.
> We need people to maintain or enhance xymon  windows client.
>
> tj
>>
>> Thanks in advance
>>
>>
>>
>> Bart Gillis
>
>
>
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