[xymon] bb-win & client-local.cfg

Mon Jul 26 10:36:06 CEST 2010

     Owner: Oh yes, the, uh, the BBWin Project...What's,uh...What's wrong
with it?

     Mr. Praline: I'll tell you what's wrong with it, my lad. 'E's dead,
that's what's wrong with it!

     Owner: No, no, 'e's uh,...he's resting.

     Mr. Praline: Look, matey, I know a dead project when I see one, and I'm
looking at one right now.

     Owner: No no he's not dead, he's, he's restin'! Remarkable project, the
BBWin, idn'it, ay? Beautiful coding!

     Mr. Praline: The coding don't enter into it. It's stone dead.

     Owner: Nononono, no, no! 'E's resting!
With apologies to Monty Python
:-)

I have no idea how things hang together in Wintendo-land, nor am I able to
code in anything that could be useful, so I am going to have to sit on the
sidelines and cheer for those who do attempt to revive this one.

Cheers
     Vernon

On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 4:22 PM, Josh Luthman
<josh at imaginenetworksllc.com>wrote:

> Maybe a bit?
>
> http://sourceforge.net/project/stats/detail.php?group_id=136450&ugn=bbwin&type=svn&mode=12months
>
> There is someone doing a Windows client (XymonWin?) that just started a
> short while back, I can't recall the details.
>
> As you can tell I'm not too much into Windows servers so I am sorry I can't
> give you many more details.
>
>
> Josh Luthman
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> Direct: 937-552-2343
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> Suite 1337
> Troy, OH 45373
>
>
> On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 4:05 AM, Vernon Everett <everett.vernon at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Beginning to sound like BBWin might be in need of an upgrade or refit.
>> Is the project still active?
>> If so, who is the maintainer?
>> If not, where do we go from here?
>>
>> Cheers
>>      Vernon
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 3:54 PM, David Baldwin <
>> david.baldwin at ausport.gov.au> wrote:
>>
>>> Vernon,
>>> > Hi all
>>> >
>>> > Hoping for a little help on this one.
>>> > Got a stream of errors coming through from some wintendo clients
>>> > running bb-win.
>>> > See example below.
>>> > We would like to ignore some errors related to certain messages.
>>> > I was under the impression that the following in client-local.cfg
>>> > would do it.
>>> >
>>> > [win32]
>>> > eventlog:Security
>>> > ignore Success
>>> > eventlog:System
>>> > ignore Information
>>> > *eventlog:Application
>>> > ignore Citrix System Monitoring
>>> > ignore MetaFrameEvents*
>>> >
>>> > Appears to not be the case.
>>> > How do we configure the client-local.cfg to ignore instances of the
>>> > first and last error, but not instances like the middle one below?
>>> > (The messages are for illustrative purposes only - their relative
>>> > importance and why I should or shouldn't ignore them is not under
>>> > discussion)
>>> >
>>> > Regards
>>> >      Vernon
>>> >
>>> I grappled with the same problem for ages. My situation was complicated
>>> by the fact I have success and failure auditing also enabled, which
>>> means the client messages could be huge, and even bumping up
>>> MAXMSG_CLIENT to around 15MB was still not enough. I never worked out
>>> how to filter a single message out.
>>>
>>> My eventual solution was to disable msgs reporting entirely in BBWIN
>>> (comment out the BBWIN.CFG line loading the msgs DLL), and set up event
>>> log forwarding using SNARE (
>>> http://www.intersectalliance.com/projects/SnareWindows/index.html ) to
>>> rsyslog on the logging/monitoring server (running xymon/hobbit) and then
>>> write a test to filter the forwarded logs. This also allowed me to
>>> filter on severity, error code, etc. so was a better solution due to
>>> some of the bizarre errors Windows generates which can be safely ignored
>>> (browser service, etc). Been meaning to contribute it and write it up
>>> but haven't had time yet.
>>>
>>> Note also that the event log reporting in BBWIN doesn't work at all well
>>> for Windows 2008/Vista/7 due to the new event log system. The old BBNT
>>> client doesn't cut it either.
>>>
>>> David.
>>> > red application: error - 2010/07/26 11:41:53 - Citrix System Monitoring
>>> Agent (37) - NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM
>>> >
>>> >  "The Queue thread stopped responding. The Citrix System Monitoring
>>> Agent will shutdown
>>> >  and restart."
>>> >
>>> > yellow application: warning - 2010/07/26 11:40:52 -
>>> Citrix-Multimedia-Flash (50) - stuff/deleted
>>> >
>>> >  "The client does not support HDX MediaStream for Flash. Server-side
>>> Flash rendering
>>> >  will be used if available."
>>> >
>>> > yellow application: warning - 2010/07/26 11:33:59 - MetaFrameEvents
>>> (1103) - n/a
>>> >
>>> >  "An error occurred while retrieving client printer properties. Default
>>> printer properties
>>> >  will be used instead. Client name: (WI_-fCiFejFrIHBbXrfM) Printer:
>>> (CompanyName
>>> >  Pull Print PS [UPD:PS] (from WI_-fCiFejFrIHBbXrfM) in session 6)
>>> Printer driver:
>>> >  ()"
>>> >
>>> >
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> David Baldwin - IT Unit
>>> Australian Sports Commission          www.ausport.gov.au
>>> Tel 02 62147830 Fax 02 62141830       PO Box 176 Belconnen ACT 2616
>>> david.baldwin at ausport.gov.au          Leverrier Street Bruce ACT 2617
>>>
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