[Xymon] BBWin on Windows 7 64-bit

[David B. Ritch]

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