RE: [hobbit] Looking for sample BBWIN configs for filtering Windows event logs

["Storer, Raymond" <storerr (at) nibco.com>]

Shawn, you can configure Terminal Services to turn off printer redirection.  It can be done in a group policy object (GPO) or it can be done to each server individually.

See this link for a more visual discussion on the subject:
http://blogs.technet.com/askperf/archive/2007/08/24/terminal-server-and-printer-redirection.aspx

Ray

----Original Message----
From: Shawn Heisey [mailto:hobbit (at) elyograg.org]
Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2008 1:54 PM
To: hobbit (at) hswn.dk
Subject: Re: [hobbit] Looking for sample BBWIN configs for filtering Windows event logs

> Here's our typical list:
>
>     <ignore logfile="System" eventid="2" />
>     <ignore logfile="System" eventid="3" />
>     <ignore logfile="System" eventid="4" />
>     <ignore logfile="System" eventid="8" />
>     <ignore logfile="System" eventid="1106" />
>     <ignore logfile="System" eventid="1111" />
>     <ignore logfile="Application" eventid="3033" />
>     <ignore logfile="Application" eventid="2003" />
>
> ID 3033 is an Exchange message relating to Windows Mobile clients, but
> because Exchange was the first server I converted to BBWin from Big
> Brother, it's ended up on all of the systems.  ID 2003 is related to
> performance counters.  It's probably possible to fix, but my focus
> is not so much on the Windows infrastructure.
>
> The rest are the annoying printer driver entries that you get when you
> log into a machine via Remote Desktop and are forwarding printers but
> don't have drivers on the system.  I tried for a long time to get
> people to turn off printer forwarding, because I could never get Big
> Brother to stop alarming, but nobody listened.  Hobbit/BBWin has been
> a lifesaver in this respect.  With a little more work, we will be able
> to soon include the NOC in all alarms.  With Big Brother, msgs
> was a flood of crap and would have overwhelmed them.
>
> I have a question that's really more suited for the BBWin mailing
> list, but I've asked it there and gotten no response:  Does anyone
> have a complete server-side configuration example for BBWin clients,
> showing how to handle all aspects of the client configuration?
>
> Thanks,
> Shawn