[Xymon] BBWin on Windows 7 64-bit

[David B. Ritch]

I'm having trouble getting BBWin to run on my Windows 7-SP1 64-bit
machine.  The bbwincmd  command works fine from the command line, so I'm
guessing that there may be a problem with my BBWin.cfg.  Could someone
take a look at it, and tell me what I'm doing wrong?

Here's what happens when I run bbwincmd:

C:\Program Files (x86)\BBWin\bin>bbwincmd BasementServer status BigShot
cpu green Test
bbdisplay defined to : BasementServer
port defined to : 1984
hostname defined to: BigShot
Sending status ...

Sending to BasementServer :
status BigShot.cpu green Test

And I see on my Xymon server that the test appears.  However, nothing
reaches the server from my bbwin service.  In fact, I've watched port
1984 using Wireshark, and I see the traffic when I run bbwincmd, but
nothing from the bbwin service.  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 my BBWin.cfg file.  I modified it from the default to set the
bbdisplay and hostname.  Later, I added the loglevel.  I've modes of
central and local, and see the same results.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<configuration>
<bbwin>
    <setting name="bbdisplay" value="BasementServer" />
    <setting name="hostname" value="BigShot" />
    <setting name="loglevel" value="4" />
    <!-- <setting name="bbdisplay" value="yoursecondbbdisplay:port" />-->
    <!-- BB Pager Part -->
    <!--<setting name="usepager" value="false" />
    <setting name="bbpager" value="yourfirstbbpager" />
    <setting name="bbpager" value="yourfirstbbpager" />
    <setting name="pagerlevels" value="red yellow" /> -->
   
    <!-- proxy connection settings -->
    <!--
    <setting name="useproxy" value="false" />
    <setting name="proxy" value="[user:password@]host[:port]'/>
    -->
   
    <!-- 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:\Program Files\BBWin\logs\BBWin.log"/>
    <!--  If true, the agent will report reporting failures as warning
events -->
    <setting name="logreportfailure" value="true" />
</bbwin>
<cpu>
    <!-- If true, the agent  will always report with green status -->
    <setting name="alwaysgreen" value="false" />
    <setting name="default" warnlevel="90" paniclevel="95" delay="3" />
</cpu>
<disk>
    <!-- If true, the agent  will always report with green status -->
    <setting name="alwaysgreen" value="false" />
    <!-- Level can be given by % or size unit mb, gb, tb -->
    <setting name="default" warnlevel="85%" paniclevel="95%" />
    <!-- custom rules examples
    <setting name="C" warnlevel="70%" paniclevel="400mb" />
    <setting name="E" ignore="true" /> -->
    <!-- If true, the agent will check remote drives -->
    <setting name="remote" value="false" />
    <!-- If true, the agent will check that cd/dvdrom drives are empty -->
    <setting name="cdrom" value="false" />
</disk>
<externals>
    <setting name="timer" value="3m" />
    <setting name="logstimer" value="60s" />
    <!-- externals launch examples
    <load value="cscript mybbscript.vbs" />
    <load value="myexternal.exe" />
    <load value="cscript wlbs.vbs" timer="15m" />
    <load value="cluster.exe" timer="90s" /> -->
</externals>
<memory>
    <!-- If true, the agent  will always report with green status -->
    <setting name="alwaysgreen" value="false" />
    <setting name="physical" warnlevel="78" paniclevel="98" />
    <setting name="page" warnlevel="70" paniclevel="90" />
    <setting name="virtual" warnlevel="78" paniclevel="90" />
</memory>
<msgs>
    <setting name="alwaysgreen" value="false" />
    <setting name="delay" value="1h" />
    <match logfile="System" type="error" alarmcolor="red" />
    <match logfile="System" type="warning" alarmcolor="yellow" />
    <match logfile="Application" type="error" alarmcolor="red" />
    <match logfile="Application" type="warning" alarmcolor="yellow" />
    <match logfile="Security" type="fail" />
   
    <!-- Some ignore rules examples
    <ignore logfile="Application" eventid="1030" />
    <ignore logfile="System" source="W32Time" />
    -->
</msgs>
<procs>
    <!-- some procs rules example
    <setting name="drwtsn" rule="-1" alarmcolor="red" />
    <setting name="pageant.exe" rule="=1" comment="Putty agent deamon"
/> -->
</procs>
<svcs>
    <!-- If true, the agent  will always report with green status -->
    <setting name="alwaysgreen" value="false" />
    <!-- If true, the agent will restart all "automatic  services" which
would be stopped-->
    <setting name="autoreset" value="false" />
    <setting name="alarmcolor" value="yellow" />
    <!-- The line bellow show you svcs rules. If the "Automatic Updates"
service is stopped,  it will be automatically restarted and a red status
will be sent
    until the service get it's correct status
    <setting name="Automatic Updates" value="started" autoreset="true"
alarmcolor="red" />
    -->
</svcs>
<uptime>
    <setting name="delay" value="30m" />
    <setting name="maxdelay" value="365d" />
</uptime>
</configuration>


Thanks!

David