[Xymon] [xymon] About Windows PS Client

Fri Feb 25 00:27:58 CET 2011

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From: xymon-bounces at xymon.com [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of dOCtoR MADneSS
Sent: Friday, 25 February 2011 8:27 AM
To: xymon at xymon.com
Subject: Re: [Xymon] [xymon] About Windows PS Client

Le 24/02/2011 20:46, Shea, Graeme A a écrit :
> Are you using a  64 bit or a 32 bit copy of Windows?  WOW6432Node should only exist on Windows 64 bit though some programs write the registry entries anyway.
>
> The HKLM/Software/Wow6432Node can be a trap but should not be hidden, if you are running 64 bit then are you using a 32 version of RegEdit? If you use a 32 bit program to address the registry then the program sees this key instead of HKLM/Software and does not see a separate Wow6432Node at all. You can see this if you go the windows\SysWOW64 directory and run regedt32 (the 32 bit version).  WOW stands for Windows On Windows as in running Windows 32 bit on Windows 64 bit.
>
> This is much the same as in the file system. 32 bit programs see \Windows\SysWOW64 as \Windows\System32. All the 32 bit utilities are in \Windows\SysWOW64 and for compatibility reasons the 64 bit ones are in \Windows\System32.
>
> Regards
> Graeme
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: xymon-bounces at xymon.com [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of dOCtoR MADneSS
> Sent: Friday, 25 February 2011 2:40 AM
> To: xymon at xymon.com
> Subject: Re: [Xymon] [xymon] About Windows PS Client
>
> Le 24/02/2011 06:05, David Baldwin a écrit :
>> On 23/02/11 10:10 PM, dOCtoR MADneSS wrote:
>>> Le 25/01/2011 01:28, David Baldwin a écrit :
>>>> On 25/01/11 8:05 AM, dOCtoR MADneSs wrote:
>>>>> Le 24/01/2011 07:10, David Baldwin a écrit :
>>>>>> On 24/01/11 3:55 AM, dOCtoR MADneSs wrote:
>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I found this Xymon client :
>>>>>>> http://xymon.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/xymon/sandbox/WinPSClient/
>>>>>>> I tried to install it the way I found logical.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 1st : I fought with Windows 7 Home Premium to allow execution on
>>>>>>> PowerShell scripts. I finally edited registry and allow it manually.
>>>>>>> 2nd : As administrator, I ran "powershell", then tried to install the
>>>>>>> service this way :
>>>>>>> .\xymonclient.ps1 install
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> But I got many errors about adding service and modifying registry (all
>>>>>>> errors are related to permission denial).
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Can D Baldwin, or anyone else informed about powershell and Xymon client
>>>>>>> installation, help me ?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> You'd need to have Administrator access to install I'm pretty sure.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Please send me the errors and I'll see what I can do. I can probably
>>>>>> find a Windows 7 box to test on.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks, David.
>>>>>>
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> Can you give me informations about XymonPSClient.exe ?
>>>> XymonPSClient.exe is just a renamed copy of ABC_SRVANY.EXE which is just
>>>> the service runner that spawns the powershell process to run the script
>>>> - it is xymonclient.ps1 that is the actual client code.
>>>>> Where logs and temporary files are stored ?
>>>> %TEMP%\xymonclient.log - contains date stamp and a copy of the last
>>>> client report - written out as a debugging aid, the script doesn't
>>>> actually need any temporary files
>>>> %TEMP%\xymonconfig.cfg - contains the config returned from the server
>>>> after each report is sent (i.e client-local.cfg section).
>>>>
>>>> Note that value of %TEMP% - or in PS $env:TEMP - will depend on whether
>>>> you are running the service as specific user or just as a local service,
>>>> and on the version of Windows you are using.
>>>>
>>>> David.
>>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I finally installed XymonPSClient in following the readme. The logfile
>>> is generated in c:\windows\temp. But I can't see anything sent to xymon
>>> server. The following command :
>>> xymonsend "ping" "xymonserver"
>>> reports me the xymon version running on server. But nothing else. The
>>> windows client is defined in bb-hosts file. All I can see is "conn",
>>> "info" and "trends".
>>>
>>> Any idea ? I'm new to windows 7 (home premium), and don't understand
>>> everything about how it works (or how it doesn't)
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> Xymon mailing list
>>> Xymon at xymon.com
>>> http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon
>> In the file xymonclient.log the section at the top has the config values
>> - most of these can be overridden in the registry as per README
>>
>> Two values to check:
>> clientname is the name that is being reported to the server in the
>> client report - it needs to match an entry in hosts.cfg/bb-hosts
>> (probably exact case match) - check "Ghost Clients" report.
>> servers is the address or list of addresses the client should be
>> reporting to.
>>
>> The fact that you can "ping" the xymon server means you're pretty close
>> to it working.
>>
>> David.
>>
> Thank you for your support .It seems that HKLM/Software/Wow6432Node is
> an hidden registry key, as I can't see it, nor create it with that name
> (error tells me that another key has the same name). In log file,
> everything was OK, but nothing was sent to Xymon servers. I set it
> manually with ".\xymonclient.ps1 set servers "1.2.3.4 2.3.4.5"". And
> it's OK ! I can see reports on the xymon servers. I had to change a few
> things in xymonclient.ps1 file, to get "usual" format for disk space
> (used/total instead of total\used). Everything is OK now !
> Is there any docs on using/creating plugins for your windows client ?
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>

-----Original Message-----
From: xymon-bounces at xymon.com [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of dOCtoR MADneSS
Sent: Friday, 25 February 2011 8:27 AM
To: xymon at xymon.com
Subject: Re: [Xymon] [xymon] About Windows PS Client

Le 24/02/2011 20:46, Shea, Graeme A a écrit :
> Are you using a  64 bit or a 32 bit copy of Windows?  WOW6432Node should only exist on Windows 64 bit though some programs write the registry entries anyway.
>
> The HKLM/Software/Wow6432Node can be a trap but should not be hidden, if you are running 64 bit then are you using a 32 version of RegEdit? If you use a 32 bit program to address the registry then the program sees this key instead of HKLM/Software and does not see a separate Wow6432Node at all. You can see this if you go the windows\SysWOW64 directory and run regedt32 (the 32 bit version).  WOW stands for Windows On Windows as in running Windows 32 bit on Windows 64 bit.
>
> This is much the same as in the file system. 32 bit programs see \Windows\SysWOW64 as \Windows\System32. All the 32 bit utilities are in \Windows\SysWOW64 and for compatibility reasons the 64 bit ones are in \Windows\System32.
>
> Regards
> Graeme
>
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I'm sure my windows is 64bits. And I start registry editor with 
"regedit" command from powershell with admins rights. And in c:\windows 
I can't see any Wow64 directory. I remember you that I use windows 7 
home premium (don't know if it's important).

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If you go to control panel\system there will be an entry beside "System Type". This will say if it is 32 or 64 bit.

Hope this helps
Regards
Graeme

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