[xymon] bb-win & client-local.cfg

[Josh Luthman]

Maybe a bit?
http://sourceforge.net/project/stats/detail.php?group_id=136450&ugn=bbwin&type=svn&mode=12months

There is someone doing a Windows client (XymonWin?) that just started a
short while back, I can't recall the details.

As you can tell I'm not too much into Windows servers so I am sorry I can't
give you many more details.

Josh Luthman
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On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 4:05 AM, Vernon Everett <everett.vernon at gmail.com>wrote:

> Beginning to sound like BBWin might be in need of an upgrade or refit.
> Is the project still active?
> If so, who is the maintainer?
> If not, where do we go from here?
>
> Cheers
>      Vernon
>
>
>
> On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 3:54 PM, David Baldwin <
> david.baldwin at ausport.gov.au> wrote:
>
>> Vernon,
>> > Hi all
>> >
>> > Hoping for a little help on this one.
>> > Got a stream of errors coming through from some wintendo clients
>> > running bb-win.
>> > See example below.
>> > We would like to ignore some errors related to certain messages.
>> > I was under the impression that the following in client-local.cfg
>> > would do it.
>> >
>> > [win32]
>> > eventlog:Security
>> > ignore Success
>> > eventlog:System
>> > ignore Information
>> > *eventlog:Application
>> > ignore Citrix System Monitoring
>> > ignore MetaFrameEvents*
>> >
>> > Appears to not be the case.
>> > How do we configure the client-local.cfg to ignore instances of the
>> > first and last error, but not instances like the middle one below?
>> > (The messages are for illustrative purposes only - their relative
>> > importance and why I should or shouldn't ignore them is not under
>> > discussion)
>> >
>> > Regards
>> >      Vernon
>> >
>> I grappled with the same problem for ages. My situation was complicated
>> by the fact I have success and failure auditing also enabled, which
>> means the client messages could be huge, and even bumping up
>> MAXMSG_CLIENT to around 15MB was still not enough. I never worked out
>> how to filter a single message out.
>>
>> My eventual solution was to disable msgs reporting entirely in BBWIN
>> (comment out the BBWIN.CFG line loading the msgs DLL), and set up event
>> log forwarding using SNARE (
>> http://www.intersectalliance.com/projects/SnareWindows/index.html ) to
>> rsyslog on the logging/monitoring server (running xymon/hobbit) and then
>> write a test to filter the forwarded logs. This also allowed me to
>> filter on severity, error code, etc. so was a better solution due to
>> some of the bizarre errors Windows generates which can be safely ignored
>> (browser service, etc). Been meaning to contribute it and write it up
>> but haven't had time yet.
>>
>> Note also that the event log reporting in BBWIN doesn't work at all well
>> for Windows 2008/Vista/7 due to the new event log system. The old BBNT
>> client doesn't cut it either.
>>
>> David.
>> > red application: error - 2010/07/26 11:41:53 - Citrix System Monitoring
>> Agent (37) - NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM
>> >
>> >  "The Queue thread stopped responding. The Citrix System Monitoring
>> Agent will shutdown
>> >  and restart."
>> >
>> > yellow application: warning - 2010/07/26 11:40:52 -
>> Citrix-Multimedia-Flash (50) - stuff/deleted
>> >
>> >  "The client does not support HDX MediaStream for Flash. Server-side
>> Flash rendering
>> >  will be used if available."
>> >
>> > yellow application: warning - 2010/07/26 11:33:59 - MetaFrameEvents
>> (1103) - n/a
>> >
>> >  "An error occurred while retrieving client printer properties. Default
>> printer properties
>> >  will be used instead. Client name: (WI_-fCiFejFrIHBbXrfM) Printer:
>> (CompanyName
>> >  Pull Print PS [UPD:PS] (from WI_-fCiFejFrIHBbXrfM) in session 6)
>> Printer driver:
>> >  ()"
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
>> --
>> David Baldwin - IT Unit
>> Australian Sports Commission          www.ausport.gov.au
>> Tel 02 62147830 Fax 02 62141830       PO Box 176 Belconnen ACT 2616
>> david.baldwin at ausport.gov.au          Leverrier Street Bruce ACT 2617
>>
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