BBWin 0.5 available

[Etienne Grignon]

Hello everyone,


I publish today the second preview of BBWin, a free Big Brother Hobbit
Windows client.

You can download the MSI installer of this preview from
http://sourceforge.net/projects/bbwin

This preview contains the new following stuffs:


* The Cpu agent dll : it will monitor your cpu with a full ps report sorted
by cpu usage

* The Disk agent dll : it will monitor your disks usage

* The Memory agent dll : it will monitor your memory usage

* The Stats agent dll : just to send statistics reports like netstat for
trends purpose

* The external fsmon: a small script used to monitor folders (files counting
for IIS smtp queue for example)

* The externals agent can now work with report file using lifetime feature

* The uptime agent doesn't use anymore the pdh library

* The converting tools: migrate your current bbnt configuration to the BBWin
configuration format instantaneously



Note : the cpu, disk, memory and stats agents are bbnt trends back
compatible. So, you will be able to keep your trends history if you are
moving from bbnt client.

Also, it contains the already existing stuffs with some bugs corrections.
You may look at the change log file to get more details.

* The executable BBWin: it is the native service in charge of executing the
agents

* The executable BBWinCmd : it is a command line utility to send messages to
an hobbit server

* The Externals agent dll: it is an agent in charge of executing all your
existing BB scripts or executables

* The Procs agent dll : it is an agent in charge of checking running
processes

* The Uptime agent dll: it will monitor uptime of the server including an
alarm if reboot recently. It was interesting to separate this alarm from cpu
column.

* The external wlbs.vbs: monitor wlbs (nlb) windows clusters

* The external cluster.exe: monitor mscs windows clusters

* The agents SDK: contains an example and the necessary headers to develop
your own C++ BBWin agents

After installing the BBWin package, please read the Readme.txt file to
understand its working. It is located in C:\Program Files\BBWin\doc if you
installed it by default.

Note : If upgrading from BBWin 0.4, just install the new version, it will
upgrade your BBWin agent without erasing your existing configuration files.

The centralized BBWin version is not ready (I have to provide some hobbit
server side code to Henrik) so BBWin agents need local configuration for the
moment.

The next preview (0.6) should be delivered on April 17th. It will contain :

* the Services agent dll : monitor Windows services with autorestart
features

* the Event agent dll : a small version to monitor the windows event log

* Improvement of the cpu agent

* Improvement of the BBWin core service (To be more robust)

* A better documentation


Also, I created a newsletter that you can use for questions, requests or bug
reports about BBWin.

You can subscribe to the list on :

http://sourceforge.net/news/?group_id=136450



Etienne.
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