[Xymon] BBWin on Windows 7 64-bit

[David B. Ritch]

Yes, I did try using the IP address.  I also tried ip_address:1984.  And
I restarted the service after each change.
I really think it's not reading the BBWin.cfg file.

I'm much more comfortable with Linux/Unix than Windows.  Under LInux,
I'd run strace, to follow the system calls, and look to see what BBWin
is actually doing - what files it's opening, etc.  Do you know if there
is an equivalent tool I can use to trace its activity under Windows?  Or
some other way to get it to work?

Thanks!

dbr

On 3/2/2011 8:16 AM, Carl Inglis wrote:
> Hi David,
>
> I've just looked at a 64bit Win 2k3 machine and the BBWin key is indeed
> in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\BBWin
>
> I don't have a 64bit W7 machine to experiment with.
>
> Are you sure the service is started?
>
> Have you tried replacing the bbdisplay host with it's IP address? I'm
> not sure why, but I have a feeling that BBWin doesn't do DNS - but I
> could be wrong.
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> Carl 
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: David B. Ritch [mailto:david.ritch at gmail.com]
>> Sent: 02 March 2011 12:53
>> To: Carl Inglis
>> Cc: xymon at xymon.com
>> Subject: Re: [Xymon] BBWin on Windows 7 64-bit
>>
>> Thanks, Carl.  Unfortunately, I get the same results with your config
>> file (with my own bbdisplay replacing yours).
>>
>> I have my Windows7 desktop system sending its syslogs to a Linux
> syslog
>> server, and I noticed the following when I started the service:
>>
>> Mar  2 07:22:43 BIGSHOT bigbrotherhobbitclient[warning] 17 externals
> No
>> externals have been specified
>>
>> Since your BBWin.cfg specifies externals, this suggests that BBWin is
>> not actually reading my BBWin.cfg at all.  How does it find out where
>> the config file is?
>>
>> The .msi file installed information such as the location of the config
>> file in my registry in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\BBWin.
>> The documentation that came with BBWin says it should have installed
> it
>> in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\BBWin.  Does the .msi file put this in
>> the wrong place (on Win7 64-bit machines)?  Do I need to move or
>> recreate the registry entries in the right place?
>>
>> dbr
>>
>> On 3/2/2011 3:29 AM, Carl Inglis wrote:
>>>> I'm having trouble getting BBWin to run on my Windows 7-SP1 64-bit
>>> machine.
>>>
>>> [snip]
>>>
>>> Things I've discovered (through trial, oops and doh!):
>>>
>>> 1 - make sure the service is started (the installer doesn't start it
>>> automatically).
>>> 2 - make sure the hostname in the registry is correct.
>>> 3 - check your ghost clients.
>>>
>>>> Bbwin logs that it starts up, and logs
>>>> "The agent externals generated this event message : No externals
>> have
>>>> been specified", and sends nothing to the Xymon server.
>>> Here's one of my bbwin.cfg files - this one doesn't get the error
>> that
>>> you mention (it did, until I moved the external tests outside the
>>> <bbwin>):
>>>
>>> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
>>> <configuration>
>>> <bbwin>
>>> 	<setting name="bbdisplay" value="10.239.96.100" />
>>>
>>> 	<!-- bbwin mode local or central -->
>>> 	<setting name="mode" value="central" />
>>> 	<setting name="configclass" value="win32" />
>>>
>>> 	<setting name="autoreload" value="true" />
>>> 	<setting name="timer" value="5m" />
>>>
>>> 	<load name="cpu" value="cpu.dll"/>
>>> 	<load name="disk" value="disk.dll"/>
>>> 	<load name="externals" value="externals.dll"/>
>>> 	<load name="filesystem" value="filesystem.dll"/>
>>> 	<load name="memory" value="memory.dll"/>
>>> 	<load name="msgs" value="msgs.dll"/>
>>> 	<load name="procs" value="procs.dll"/>
>>> 	<load name="stats" value="stats.dll"/>
>>> 	<load name="svcs" value="svcs.dll"/>
>>> 	<load name="uptime" value="uptime.dll"/>
>>> 	<load name="who" value="who.dll"/>
>>>
>>> 	<setting name="loglevel" value="3" />
>>> 	<setting name="logpath" value="C:\BBWin.log"/>
>>>
>>> 	<!--  If true, the agent will report reporting failures as
>>> warning events -->
>>> 	<setting name="logreportfailure" value="true" />
>>> </bbwin>
>>>
>>> <externals>
>>> 	<setting name="timer" value="3m" />
>>> 	<setting name="logstimer" value="60s" />
>>> 	<load name="winUpdates" value="cscript //nologo //B
>>> winUpdates.vbs"          />
>>> 	<load name="winupd"     value="cscript //nologo //B winupd.vbs"
>>> timer="120s" />
>>> </externals>
>>>
>>> </configuration>
>>>
>>> Hope this helps.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Carl
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