[hobbit] RE: [bbwin-users] [hobbit] BBWIN Client running on E xchange server issues?

[White, Bruce]

Rafal,
 
I have passed you recommendation on to our Windows guys.   Thanks for the
input!
 
     .....Bruce
 

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From: Rafal Roginela [mailto:Rafal.Roginela at AmeriCashLoans.net] 
Sent: Friday, March 21, 2008 12:45 PM
To: hobbit at hswn.dk
Subject: RE: [hobbit] RE: [bbwin-users] [hobbit] BBWIN Client running on
Exchange server issues?



HI Bruce,

 

I'm running the client the same way on our Exchange 2003 servers too with no
issues. The one thing to check is the configuration of the client and making
sure that:

A) you have minimal logging set in your local BBWin.cfg file "<setting
name="logreportfailure" value="false" />" otherwise agent will post to event
log

 

B) I've included my config for the <msgs> section to show you how I mitigate
the high level of reporting that can happen with Windows Event Viewer
ESPECIALLY on an EXCHANGE SERVER:



<setting name="alwaysgreen" value="false" />

            <match logfile="System" type="error" delay="1h" alarmcolor="red"
/>

            <match logfile="Application" type="error" delay="1h"
alarmcolor="red" />

            <match logfile="Application" eventid="9688" delay="1h"
alarmcolor="red" />

            <ignore logfile="System" eventid="1111" />

            <ignore logfile="System" eventid="16" />

            <ignore logfile="System" eventid="10020" />

            <ignore logfile="System" eventid="5805" />

            <ignore logfile="System" eventid="5723" />

            <ignore logfile="System" eventid="12294" />

            <ignore logfile="Application" eventid="3008" />

            <ignore logfile="Application" eventid="1000" />

            <ignore logfile="Application" eventid="56" />

            <ignore logfile="Application" eventid="35" />

            <ignore logfile="Application" eventid="3015" />

 

Setting up to watch the event log in Windows can be tricky because Windows
can generate ALLLLOT of messages for a very small issue that is not worth
noting except during a monthly check. As you can see this gives me
visibility into errors only, as I regularly check over my logs for oddities
in warnings. And I want you to know that this list does change as I adjust
the servers and the environment. Good luck, please contact me if you need
additional help.

 

And sorry if I missed the question somehow.. :-)

 

Thank you,

Rafal Roginela

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From: White, Bruce [mailto:bewhite at fellowes.com] 
Sent: Friday, March 21, 2008 12:26 PM
To: 'Etienne Grignon'; hobbit at hswn.dk; BBWin mailing list
Subject: [hobbit] RE: [bbwin-users] [hobbit] BBWIN Client running on
Exchange server issues?

 

Thanks for the response.

 

We are running BBWIN 0.9 in local mode.

All columns produced by BBWIN turn purple, in time.

The last time BBWIN hung on our two servers 1 reported 340 out of 1400+
messages matched, the other report 748 out of 2589 matched.  

 

I am the Unix guy in the shop.  I brought hobbit on-board.  The windows guys
will not run BBWIN on these servers again until I can prove it is not
causing all their problems (i.e.. 748 system level error messages).

 

      .......Bruce

 

 

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From: bbwin-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net
[mailto:bbwin-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Etienne
Grignon
Sent: Friday, March 21, 2008 11:48 AM
To: hobbit at hswn.dk; BBWin mailing list
Subject: Re: [bbwin-users] [hobbit] BBWIN Client running on Exchange server
issues?

Hello,

2008/3/18, Lárus Rafn Halldórsson <lalli at slepja.com
<mailto:lalli at slepja.com> >: 

No need to reboot the machine... only kill the bbwin.exe in task manager and
refresh services list. Then restart bbwin service.

 

I am having this trouble with an Exchange server and the source is that its
logging very much in the system log and that seems to piss off the bbwin
client. Same issue with BBWIN 0.9 and 0.10.. have not tried 0.11 yet. This
happens 2-3 times a week.

 

Hope this helps,

Larus

 



BBWin should not have this behavior. I would need theses informations :

Are you running BBWin with central or local mode ?
Do you have some columns which turn to purple color ?
Could you check the msgs columns to see how many events are reported ?
Could you try to run BBWin for a week without these agents : stats.dll,
msgs.dll (and filesystem.dll if you are running the central mode) to see if
the behavior is the same or not ?

Thank you in advance,
 

-- 
Etienne GRIGNON 



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