With your BBWin, will there be the abbility to run customs external scripts ? Alot of my existing scripts are written in VBS.
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From: Etienne Grignon [mailto:etienne.grignon at gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2006 9:24 AM
To: hobbit at hswn.dk
Subject: Re: [hobbit] Feasibility of Windows Client
Hi Steve, Hi Peter,
Well, with BBWin, you will be able to compile it without cygwinbecause I use all win32 possibilities :) And the source code of BBWin is under GPL, so no more problem :)
About the hobbit protocol, the agent will be able to use datamessages so, I some agents will be able to send status message used for the web page, and data message in an easier format to be able to parse it on hobbit server side. For the moment, I'm trying to get the same format than the original quest bbnt client to be able to use the existing rrd parsing scripts. Of course, in the future, we can imagine to report status and data in a similar format than the today hobbit unix client.
About WMI, I will only use if I can't do it using native C++api. For example, I have made a nice external vbs using WMI to monitor my windows wlbs (NLB) clusters because no C api was available. However, for the MSCS clusters, even if it's possible to make it with WMI, I had prefered make the external with the native C api. So, note that you will be soon be able to monitor easily the two sorts of Microsoft clusters :) These 2 probes will be integrated in the preview release. (If I have enough time, MSCS external will be released as a native bbwin agent :) )
After posting the preview release, I think I will be able toimplement a new probe each 2 weeks, so I will try to work as Henrik :
1) first post the idea with my implementation idea
2) recolt all your ideas and remarks
3) merge the all and implement it
If anyone has ideas about the project, don't hesitate to post orto send me directly an email :)
Peter : I did't get the attached file you posted, it doesn'tseem to be present
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Etienne