[Xymon] Xymon Powershell Windows client

[zak.beck at accenture.com]

Hi all,

 

Today I have uploaded a new version of the Xymon Powershell client to SVN
(in sandbox/WinPSClient). We (Accenture) are very pleased to be contributing
these changes to the open source community. I've been working on this now
for around 8 months on and off and hopefully the changes made will be of
benefit to everyone!

 

Whilst making changes, we have focussed mainly on making it work, improving
reliability and most importantly improving performance.

 

In most cases, on our 64 bit OS virtual machines, a data collection now
takes around 5 seconds. On heavily loaded (CPU load or event log load)
servers, the script is now considerably faster than originally. Key to this
has been reducing the amount of WMI usage as this was a major culprit. 

 

We have also implemented some new features, largely based on our in-house
requirements but hopefully useful to others:

 

*         Showing the process owner and command line in [procs]. This has
been implemented using c# code, compiled at runtime.

*         Adding Active Directory replication test, Terminal Services
sessions test

*         Ability to restart any stopped Windows service

*         Client self-update

*         Dirsize and dirtime checks (which were originally external
scripts)

 

Some things have changed slightly; for example, the local configuration
which was registry-based is now XML-based (you can still use registry
settings if you prefer).  In the SVN repository I have also uploaded a Word
document which describes how to install and the configuration options.

 

I have uploaded all the revisions we have made to SVN so there is a history
of development. Whilst we will endeavour to continue contributing changes
and improvements in coming months, this is an open source project and as
such we are not offering any formal support. If anyone wishes to bugfix,
branch or whatever, please do so!

Zak Beck
Accenture



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