[Xymon] BBWin on Windows 7 64-bit

I'm having trouble getting BBWin to run on my Windows 7-SP1 64-bit machine.

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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

Carl Inglis Systems Administrator