Hello Etienne,
i have some problems to get my external scripts running, using bbwin 0.5 The main problem is, that i cant troubleshoot in the right manner, because the output of script execution does not appears in any kind of log, even thought the logging level is set to debug. the only reporting i get is those from CPU Test and some startup/shutdown messages.
Would you mind to redirect the output of external script launched in any manner to dedicated or at least main log file in future releases? This would be helpful in some situations.
Anyway, the core part of your client seems to work perfect out of the box. So finally my monitoring solution is 100% Open Source. Thanks.
Cheers,
Anatoli Bogajewski
etienne.grignon at gmail.com schrieb am 03.04.2006 11:48:49:
Hello everyone,
I publish today the second preview of BBWin, a free Big Brother Hobbit Windows client. You can download the MSI installer of this preview from http: //sourceforge.net/projects/bbwin This preview contains the new following stuffs:
- The Cpu agent dll : it will monitor your cpu with a full ps report sorted by cpu usage
- The Disk agent dll : it will monitor your disks usage
- The Memory agent dll : it will monitor your memory usage
- The Stats agent dll : just to send statistics reports like netstat for trends purpose
- The external fsmon: a small script used to monitor folders (files counting for IIS smtp queue for example)
- The externals agent can now work with report file using lifetime feature
- The uptime agent doesn't use anymore the pdh library
- The converting tools: migrate your current bbnt configuration to the BBWin configuration format instantaneously
Note : the cpu, disk, memory and stats agents are bbnt trends back compatible. So, you will be able to keep your trends history if you are moving from bbnt client. Also, it contains the already existing stuffs with some bugs corrections. You may look at the change log file to get more details.
- The executable BBWin: it is the native service in charge of executing the agents
- The executable BBWinCmd : it is a command line utility to send messages to an hobbit server
- The Externals agent dll: it is an agent in charge of executing all your existing BB scripts or executables
- The Procs agent dll : it is an agent in charge of checking runningprocesses
- The Uptime agent dll: it will monitor uptime of the server including an alarm if reboot recently. It was interesting to separate this alarm from cpu column.
- The external wlbs.vbs: monitor wlbs (nlb) windows clusters
- The external cluster.exe: monitor mscs windows clusters
- The agents SDK: contains an example and the necessary headers to develop your own C++ BBWin agents After installing the BBWin package, please read the Readme.txt file to understand its working. It is located in C:\Program Files\BBWin\doc if you installed it by default. Note : If upgrading from BBWin 0.4, just install the new version, it will upgrade your BBWin agent without erasing your existing configuration files. The centralized BBWin version is not ready (I have to provide some hobbit server side code to Henrik) so BBWin agents need local configuration for the moment.
The next preview (0.6) should be delivered on April 17th. It will contain :
- the Services agent dll : monitor Windows services with autorestart features
- the Event agent dll : a small version to monitor the windows event log
- Improvement of the cpu agent
- Improvement of the BBWin core service (To be more robust)
- A better documentation
Also, I created a newsletter that you can use for questions, requests or bug reports about BBWin. You can subscribe to the list on : http://sourceforge.net/news/?group_id=136450
Etienne.