[Xymon] Xymon PowerShell Windows client

[David Baldwin]

Zak,
>
> Unfortunately, you can't fake the BBWin identifier for just one 
> section – you have to change the client to report in as BBwin. It was 
> changed so that we could experimentally use separate configuration 
> options for BBWin clients and Powershell clients.
>
> To change how the client reports itself, change line 2746 in the 
> current commit:
>
> 2745 WriteLog "Performing main and optional tests and building output..."
> 2746    $clout = "client " + $clientname + ".powershell powershell 
> XymonPS" | Out-String
> 2747    $clsecs = XymonClientSections | Out-String
>
> In the original Powershell client, this line was:
>
> $clout = "client " + $clientname + ".bbwin win32" | Out-String
>
> So you can see we've changed '.bbwin' to '.powershell' and 'win32' to 
> 'powershell'.
>
> I appreciate this isn't very good and should probably be a 
> configuration item.
Changing the client from bbwin to something else is less harmful. 
Changing class from win32 to powershell will probably break LOTS of 
stuff. I suspect many users migrating from BBWin use "class=win32" in 
analysis.cfg (hobbit-clients.cfg) file extensively. The class is 
probably also used in the section parsing -> status reports/RRD data 
extraction. It will also break the config segment returned from 
client-local.cfg - e.g.

[win32]
dir:C:\Windows\Temp
log:c:\WINDOWS\WindowsUpdate.log:20480

David.

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