[Xymon] BBWin or XymonPSClient

On 21/05/12 10:21 AM, Colin Coe wrote:

Hi all

Should I be using BBWin or the PowerShell client on my Windows nodes (mix of Windows XP, 7, 2008R2)?

I use both (and I built up the PS client from Henrik's first cut). The PS client is a bit heavyweight, especially on memory footprint - it would probably be a good idea to restart it everyday to reduce that. Windows doesn't really support PS scripts as a service properly, although it seems robust enough (doesn't fall over on any of my systems). It also doesn't handle external scripts.

The latest BBWin 0.13 still doesn't do ifstat reporting properly. At least I've worked out how to run Powershell scripts as externals in BBWin which means the best of both worlds. It would be even better if BBWin had an easy way to call out to a script to generate part of the client report like the latest Xymon client does.

David.

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