[Xymon] Hobbit Server Overload Due To Windows Event Logs

[Rebman,Scott (HHSC Contractor)]

David,

Thanks you for the insight. We will try this and report on the results.

Scott Allen Rebman
Solaris System Administrator
HHS/HHSC/Contractor
TIERS Operations
(512)873-6864 (CrossPark)
(512)275-6122 (cell)
Scott.Rebman at hhsc.state.tx.us



From: David Baldwin [mailto:david.baldwin at ausport.gov.au]
Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2014 2:13 AM
To: Rebman,Scott (HHSC Contractor); xymon at xymon.com
Cc: Mills,David (HHSC Contractor)
Subject: Re: [Xymon] Hobbit Server Overload Due To Windows Event Logs

Scott,

I have the following in my /etc/xymon/client-local.cfg file to try to kill the event logs completely - note that the client has to report successfuly to pull this from the server. If that fails, you can paste directly into C:\Program Files (x86)\BBWin\tmp\clientlocal.cfg

[win32]
log:eventlog_security:10240
ignore .*
ignore .
eventlog:security:10240
ignore handle
ignore .*
ignore .
eventlog:System:10240
ignore .*
ignore .
eventlog:application:10240
ignore .*
ignore .
eventlog:directory service:10240
ignore .*
ignore .
eventlog:dfs replication:10240
ignore .*
ignore .
eventlog:windows powershell:10240
ignore .*
ignore .


I process all my Windows servers event logs on a central syslog server forwarded by SNARE using a custom test.

David.
We are at xymon version 4.3.3 and bbwin is at 0.13.

Scott Allen Rebman
Solaris System Administrator
HHS/HHSC/Contractor
TIERS Operations
(512)873-6864 (CrossPark)
(512)275-6122 (cell)
Scott.Rebman at hhsc.state.tx.us<mailto:Scott.Rebman at hhsc.state.tx.us>




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From: Rebman,Scott (HHSC Contractor)
Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2014 12:22 PM
To: xymon at xymon.com<mailto:xymon at xymon.com>
Cc: Mills,David (HHSC Contractor)
Subject: Hobbit Server Overload Due To Windows Event Logs


We’re trying to completely shut down all Windows event logs being sent from the clients to the Xymon server. We experimented and only seemed able to achieve this by deleting the:

                <load name="msgs" value="msgs.dll"/>

line and the entire “<msgs> …</msgs>” stanza from the local BBWin.cfg. We thought we had a recipe for success on the rest of our Windows clients but when we started trying to make it work on two other boxes, we found that the “procs” and “timediff” tests went purple!

We experimented by putting parts of the <msgs> … stanza back in but we found that (apparently) the client data was not making it back to the server from the client after the mods. So – we got it working on our test box, but on two other “live” boxes it failed and interfered with other tests.

This is a hot item for us since our Hobbit server is being overwhelmed by incoming data, in large part coming from these huge Windows event logs.

Thanks!

Scott Allen Rebman
Solaris System Administrator
HHS/HHSC/Contractor
TIERS Operations
(512)873-6864 (CrossPark)
(512)275-6122 (cell)
Scott.Rebman at hhsc.state.tx.us<mailto:Scott.Rebman at hhsc.state.tx.us>









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