[Xymon] HELP- INSTALL CLIENT XYMON ON WINDOWS

[Brandon Dale]

The PowerShell client only works in “Central” mode. So to monitor services and processes you need to add the relevant entries into your analysis.cfg file on your server.

Something like:

HOST=server01
                SVC testservice status=started startup=automatic
                PROC test.exe 1
DISK * 95 98
                DISK F IGNORE

For Disks it should pickup the disks automatically and use the values at the bottom of your analysis.cfg file or you can set your own values like above

The PowerShell client is much better than BBWin, it’s actively maintained and has a whole bunch of extra functionality and it’s written in PowerShell. On top of that it can replicate mostly everything BBwin already did with the exception of local mode. It even has its own update mechanism built into it and does hash checking on external scripts. It really is worth switching to.

For slimmode, I don’t actually use it but I do recall seeing something on this list about a bug in the current implementation, I’m not sure if that has been patched yet. You might be misunderstanding what slimmode does, it basically just stops certain sections of information being sent to the server so you can send smaller messages that contain less data. I assume this is for performance / security reasons. This is the information you will see in the clientlog column for the host in xymon. Or in you xymon powershell directory in the xymon-lastcollect.txt if you have that turned on. It is also the data that the server parses for each test so if you omit a bunch of services using slimmode then you won’t be able to report on their status.

Regards,
Brandon Dale

From: Xymon [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Kris Springer
Sent: Thursday, 8 March 2018 3:58 PM
To: John Palys <johnpalys at schoolpathways.com>; xymon at xymon.com
Subject: Re: [Xymon] HELP- INSTALL CLIENT XYMON ON WINDOWS

Yes, I have been successfully using BBwin for many years with no trouble.  I just thought I'd try out the Powershell client, but so far the customizations are not working.  Anyone have a functioning sample config to specify Services and Processes?


Kris Springer




On 03/07/2018 03:33 PM, John Palys wrote:
I also endorse bbwin.  I used it a lot with original Big Brother and it works well.
Simple to install, setup and maintain.
See this page http://www.squidworks.net/2012/04/new-bbwin-gui-version-2-release-for-bbwin-xymon-client/

They made a bbwin gui onfig file which helps in setup and maintenance of bbwin.


 http://www.squidworks.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/BBWin_Gui-2.2.zip


On Wed, Mar 7, 2018 at 2:57 PM, Kris Springer <kspringer at innovateteam.com<mailto:kspringer at innovateteam.com>> wrote:
I've also tried adding the slimmode option into the server's client-local.cfg, but that doesn't do anything either.  How do you test for specific Services and Processes with the Powershell client.  Following the instructions doesn't seem to work.

Kris Springer



On 03/06/2018 07:41 PM, Galen Johnson wrote:
The powershell client is available at https://sourceforge.net/p/xymon/code/HEAD/tree/sandbox/WinPSClient/.  Unlike bbwin, it is actively maintained.

=G=

On Tue, Mar 6, 2018 at 4:53 PM, Bruce Ferrell <bferrell at baywinds.org<mailto:bferrell at baywinds.org>> wrote:
On 03/06/2018 12:43 PM, Pablo Padilla wrote:
Hi..

can xymon-client be installed on windows server to monitor Drive Spaces???

Saludos cordiales,
Pablo

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There is a windows client called BBwin:

http://bbwin.sourceforge.net/

and bbwingui, also on sourceforge, for configuring bbwin.

I think there is also a client written in powershell.  powershell irratates me so I don't use it

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