[Xymon] BBWin on Windows 7 64-bit

[Carl Inglis]

Hi David,

I've just looked at a 64bit Win 2k3 machine and the BBWin key is indeed
in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\BBWin

I don't have a 64bit W7 machine to experiment with.

Are you sure the service is started?

Have you tried replacing the bbdisplay host with it's IP address? I'm
not sure why, but I have a feeling that BBWin doesn't do DNS - but I
could be wrong.

Hope that helps.

Carl 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David B. Ritch [mailto:david.ritch at gmail.com]
> Sent: 02 March 2011 12:53
> To: Carl Inglis
> Cc: xymon at xymon.com
> Subject: Re: [Xymon] BBWin on Windows 7 64-bit
> 
> Thanks, Carl.  Unfortunately, I get the same results with your config
> file (with my own bbdisplay replacing yours).
> 
> I have my Windows7 desktop system sending its syslogs to a Linux
syslog
> server, and I noticed the following when I started the service:
> 
> Mar  2 07:22:43 BIGSHOT bigbrotherhobbitclient[warning] 17 externals
No
> externals have been specified
> 
> Since your BBWin.cfg specifies externals, this suggests that BBWin is
> not actually reading my BBWin.cfg at all.  How does it find out where
> the config file is?
> 
> The .msi file installed information such as the location of the config
> file in my registry in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\BBWin.
> The documentation that came with BBWin says it should have installed
it
> in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\BBWin.  Does the .msi file put this in
> the wrong place (on Win7 64-bit machines)?  Do I need to move or
> recreate the registry entries in the right place?
> 
> dbr
> 
> On 3/2/2011 3:29 AM, Carl Inglis wrote:
> >> I'm having trouble getting BBWin to run on my Windows 7-SP1 64-bit
> > machine.
> >
> > [snip]
> >
> > Things I've discovered (through trial, oops and doh!):
> >
> > 1 - make sure the service is started (the installer doesn't start it
> > automatically).
> > 2 - make sure the hostname in the registry is correct.
> > 3 - check your ghost clients.
> >
> >> Bbwin logs that it starts up, and logs
> >> "The agent externals generated this event message : No externals
> have
> >> been specified", and sends nothing to the Xymon server.
> > Here's one of my bbwin.cfg files - this one doesn't get the error
> that
> > you mention (it did, until I moved the external tests outside the
> > <bbwin>):
> >
> > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
> > <configuration>
> > <bbwin>
> > 	<setting name="bbdisplay" value="10.239.96.100" />
> >
> > 	<!-- bbwin mode local or central -->
> > 	<setting name="mode" value="central" />
> > 	<setting name="configclass" value="win32" />
> >
> > 	<setting name="autoreload" value="true" />
> > 	<setting name="timer" value="5m" />
> >
> > 	<load name="cpu" value="cpu.dll"/>
> > 	<load name="disk" value="disk.dll"/>
> > 	<load name="externals" value="externals.dll"/>
> > 	<load name="filesystem" value="filesystem.dll"/>
> > 	<load name="memory" value="memory.dll"/>
> > 	<load name="msgs" value="msgs.dll"/>
> > 	<load name="procs" value="procs.dll"/>
> > 	<load name="stats" value="stats.dll"/>
> > 	<load name="svcs" value="svcs.dll"/>
> > 	<load name="uptime" value="uptime.dll"/>
> > 	<load name="who" value="who.dll"/>
> >
> > 	<setting name="loglevel" value="3" />
> > 	<setting name="logpath" value="C:\BBWin.log"/>
> >
> > 	<!--  If true, the agent will report reporting failures as
> > warning events -->
> > 	<setting name="logreportfailure" value="true" />
> > </bbwin>
> >
> > <externals>
> > 	<setting name="timer" value="3m" />
> > 	<setting name="logstimer" value="60s" />
> > 	<load name="winUpdates" value="cscript //nologo //B
> > winUpdates.vbs"          />
> > 	<load name="winupd"     value="cscript //nologo //B winupd.vbs"
> > timer="120s" />
> > </externals>
> >
> > </configuration>
> >
> > Hope this helps.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Carl