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 running processes
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.