[Xymon] Monitoring Multiple Windows Services with BBWin

Douglas Weaver DWeaver at mlgw.org
Fri Apr 7 05:18:25 CEST 2017


Thank you, Kris!
I'm could have sworn I read somewhere the exact opposite - "Service Name" instead of "Display name" or "Description"!
Many of my services (third-party software) have no "Description".
So, I tried "Display name" instead.
This appears to work for me.


And thanks for pointing me to the BBWin GUI.
I'll check it out.


Again, many thanks!


Doug


>>> Kris Springer <kspringer at innovateteam.com> 04/06/17 6:43 PM >>>
                   Use the name of the service that appears in the       'Description' column when you view all the running services in       Task Manager.  You've got all the actual service names in your       config, but BBWin looks at the 'Description' names instead.  If       you use the 'BBWin Gui' you can avoid many of these sorts of       config issues.
       https://sourceforge.net/projects/bbwingui/  
     
       
       Thank you.
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     On 4/6/2017 4:32 PM, Douglas Weaver       wrote:
     
                          Greetings!
       
       
       I         am brand new to this list.
       Also,         I'm brand new to Xymon and BBWin.
       However,         I have worked with an old version of Big Brother for several         years.
       
       
       I         have created a brand new Xymon environment, with Xymon 4.3.27 on         Linux as my master server.
       
       
       I         am attempting to use BBWin 0.13 on various Windows 2008 and 2012         servers.
       All         is working well with one exception.
       
       
       I         need to monitor multiple Windows services on a given Windows         server.
       Even         though I add all of the services to the BBWin.cfg file, only one         shows up on the "svcs" webpage for that server.
       Perhaps         I have an error in my syntax?
       
       
       I         will appreciate any help anyone can provide.
       
       
       Here's         is an excerpt from the BBWin.cfg file on the server in question:
       
       
                <svcs>
          
          <setting             name="alwaysgreen" value="false" />
          
          <setting             name="autoreset" value="false" />
          <setting             name="alarmcolor" value="yellow" />
          <!--             The line bellow show you svcs rules. If the "Automatic             Updates" service is stopped,  it will be automatically             restarted and a red status will be sent
          until             the service get it's correct status 
          <setting             name="Automatic Updates" value="started" autoreset="true"             alarmcolor="red" />
          -->
          <setting             name="Tomcat7" value="started" autoreset="false"             alarmcolor="red" />
          <setting             name="netsense_dbgateway" value="started" autoreset="false"             alarmcolor="red" />
          <setting             name="netsense_eventlogger" value="started"             autoreset="false" alarmcolor="red" />
          <setting             name="Netsense_GIS" value="started" autoreset="false"             alarmcolor="red" />
          <setting             name="Netsense_ImportData" value="started" autoreset="false"             alarmcolor="red" />
          <setting             name="netsense_logger" value="started" autoreset="false"             alarmcolor="red" />
          <setting             name="netsense_metricscollector" value="started"             autoreset="false" alarmcolor="red" />
          <setting             name="netsense_mips" value="started" autoreset="false"             alarmcolor="red" />
          <setting             name="netsense_publisher_amrdef" value="started"             autoreset="false" alarmcolor="red" />
          <setting             name="netsense_rcs" value="started" autoreset="false"             alarmcolor="red" />
          <setting             name="netsense_reports" value="started" autoreset="false"             alarmcolor="red" />
          <setting             name="netsense_selftest" value="started" autoreset="false"             alarmcolor="red" />
          <setting             name="MASMonitor" value="started" autoreset="false"             alarmcolor="red" />
         </svcs>
         
           
         Many thanks!
         
           
         Doug
         
           
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