[Xymon] BBWin on Windows 7 64-bit

Thu Mar 3 14:27:14 CET 2011

I tried a different approach - I installed XymonPSClient, and it just
worked.  I think I'll just use that for now, and not worry too much more
about BBWin.

Thank you for your help on this, and for the work on XymonPSClient!

David

On 3/3/2011 12:01 AM, David Baldwin wrote:
> David,
>> 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.
>>
> Check the 'etcpath' registry value in HKLM:\SOFTWARE\BBWin
>
> Also, try putting full path names in to the externals definitions. My
> externals section looks like:
>
> <externals>
>     <setting name="timer" value="5m" />
>     <setting name="logstimer" value="60s" />
>     <load value='c:\perl\bin\perl.exe "C:\Program
> Files\BBWin\ext\bb-tsusers.pl"' timer="5m" />
>     <load value='c:\perl\bin\perl.exe "C:\Program
> Files\BBWin\ext\bb-clust.pl"' timer = "1m" />
> </externals>
>
>> 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?
>>
> Try the old sysinternals.com utilities (now part of Microsoft)
>
> Process Explorer is handy - I've used that for the XymonPSClient debugging.
>
> David.
>> 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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