Are you a 100% sure that there is a not a firewall blocking the network transmission?

-----Original Message----- From: pkc_mls [mailto:pkc_mls at yahoo.fr] Sent: 28 July 2010 09:32 AM To: xymon at xymon.com Subject: Re: [xymon] bbwin on windows server 2008 - no data sent to bbdisplay

Le 7/27/2010 4:57 PM, Neil Franken a écrit :

Hi Hi

I am running it successfully on a Windows 2008 server no problems. I assume you opened the 1984 port on the machine as you can see the network packets. Have you checked the event log for BBWin related errors? I can't see any packet sent to my bbdisplay, and there is no yourfirstdisplay server defined. I'll try to add this to the hosts file, but that's not a correct solution.

event log doesn't show any error. how can I get more traces in the bbwin.log ? I tried to set the log level to 9, without success.

Regards Neil

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For BBWin to log very verbosely add the following to the BBWin.cfg file.

<setting name="loglevel" value="4" />

I use that to track down problems

-----Original Message----- From: pkc_mls [mailto:pkc_mls at yahoo.fr] Sent: 28 July 2010 09:32 AM To: xymon at xymon.com Subject: Re: [xymon] bbwin on windows server 2008 - no data sent to bbdisplay

Le 7/27/2010 4:57 PM, Neil Franken a écrit :

Hi Hi

I am running it successfully on a Windows 2008 server no problems. I assume you opened the 1984 port on the machine as you can see the network packets. Have you checked the event log for BBWin related errors? I can't see any packet sent to my bbdisplay, and there is no yourfirstdisplay server defined. I'll try to add this to the hosts file, but that's not a correct solution.

event log doesn't show any error. how can I get more traces in the bbwin.log ? I tried to set the log level to 9, without success.

Regards Neil

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Can you please post your BBWin.cfg file (obfuscating any IPs etc, of course)? If the firewall is not the problem it sounds like the server is not correctly defined in the BBWin.cfg file. Please note, if you have not disabled the UAC (which I strongly recommend you DO NOT) you will need to either change the permissions on the BBWin.cfg file so you can edit and save it or start notepad.exe as an Administrator in order to successfully save your changes.

Ray

-----Original Message----- From: pkc_mls [mailto:pkc_mls at yahoo.fr] Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2010 3:32 AM To: xymon at xymon.com Subject: Re: [xymon] bbwin on windows server 2008 - no data sent to bbdisplay

Le 7/27/2010 4:57 PM, Neil Franken a écrit :

Hi Hi

I am running it successfully on a Windows 2008 server no problems. I assume you opened the 1984 port on the machine as you can see the network packets. Have you checked the event log for BBWin related errors? I can't see any packet sent to my bbdisplay, and there is no yourfirstdisplay server defined. I'll try to add this to the hosts file, but that's not a correct solution.

event log doesn't show any error. how can I get more traces in the bbwin.log ? I tried to set the log level to 9, without success.

Regards Neil

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Thanks. Well, so much for that thought. *smile* Assuming the "x.x.x.x:1984" has a valid and correct IP in your original files the below config looks good to me.

Back to the firewall... have you tried disabling the firewall service, rebooting, and then seeing if you see any reports from this machine? You can try simply stopping the firewall service if you like, but I've seen the network stack get pretty stupid after just stopping it--so, I recommend a disable and a reboot.

Ray

-----Original Message----- From: pkc_mls [mailto:pkc_mls at yahoo.fr] Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2010 3:29 AM To: xymon at xymon.com Subject: Re: [xymon] bbwin on windows server 2008 - no data sent to bbdisplay

Le 7/28/2010 6:50 PM, Storer, Raymond a écrit :

Can you please post your BBWin.cfg file (obfuscating any IPs etc, of course)? If the firewall is not the problem it sounds like the server is not correctly defined in the BBWin.cfg file. Please note, if you have not disabled the UAC (which I strongly recommend you DO NOT) you will need to either change the permissions on the BBWin.cfg file so you can edit and save it or start notepad.exe as an Administrator in order to successfully save your changes. here it is

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?> <configuration> <bbwin> <setting name="bbdisplay" value="x.x.x.x:1984" /> <setting name="bbdisplay" value="x.x.x.x:1984" /> <!-- BB Pager Part --> <!-- <setting name="usepager" value="false" /> --> <!-- <setting name="bbpager" value="yourfirstbbpager" /> --> <!-- <setting name="bbpager" value="yourfirstbbpager" /> --> <!-- <setting name="pagerlevels" value="red yellow" /> -->

    <!-- proxy connection settings -->
    <!--    <setting name="useproxy" value="false" /> -->
    <!-- <setting name="proxy" value="[user:password@]host[:port]"/> -->

    <!-- bbwin mode local or central -->
    <setting name="mode" value="local" />
    <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="4" />
    <setting name="logpath" value="C:\Program Files\BBWin\logs\BBWin.log"/>
    <!--  If true, the agent will report reporting failures as warning events -->
    <setting name="logreportfailure" value="true" /> </bbwin> <cpu>
    <!-- If true, the agent  will always report with green status -->
    <setting name="alwaysgreen" value="false" />
    <setting name="default" warnlevel="90" paniclevel="95" delay="3" /> </cpu> <disk>
    <!-- If true, the agent  will always report with green status -->
    <setting name="alwaysgreen" value="false" />
    <!-- Level can be given by % or size unit mb, gb, tb -->
    <setting name="default" warnlevel="85%" paniclevel="95%" />
    <!-- custom rules examples
    <setting name="C" warnlevel="70%" paniclevel="400mb" />
    <setting name="E" ignore="true" /> -->
    <!-- If true, the agent will check remote drives -->
    <setting name="remote" value="false" />
    <!-- If true, the agent will check that cd/dvdrom drives are empty -->
    <setting name="cdrom" value="false" /> </disk> <externals>
    <setting name="timer" value="3m" />
    <setting name="logstimer" value="60s" />
    <!-- externals launch examples
    <load value="cscript mybbscript.vbs" />
    <load value="myexternal.exe" />
    <load value="cscript wlbs.vbs" timer="15m" />
    <load value="cluster.exe" timer="90s" /> --> </externals> <memory>
    <!-- If true, the agent  will always report with green status -->
    <setting name="alwaysgreen" value="false" />
    <setting name="physical" warnlevel="78" paniclevel="98" />
    <setting name="page" warnlevel="70" paniclevel="90" />
    <setting name="virtual" warnlevel="78" paniclevel="90" /> </memory> <msgs>
    <setting name="alwaysgreen" value="false" />
    <setting name="delay" value="1h" />
    <match logfile="System" type="error" alarmcolor="red" />
    <match logfile="System" type="warning" alarmcolor="yellow" />
    <match logfile="Application" type="error" alarmcolor="red" />
    <match logfile="Application" type="warning" alarmcolor="yellow" />
    <match logfile="Security" type="fail" />

    <!-- Some ignore rules examples -->
    <!-- <ignore logfile="Application" eventid="1030" /> -->
    <!-- <ignore logfile="System" source="W32Time" /> --> </msgs> <procs>
    <!-- some procs rules example -->
    <!-- <setting name="drwtsn" rule="-1" alarmcolor="red" /> -->
    <!-- <setting name="pageant.exe" rule="=1" comment="Putty agent deamon"

/> --> </procs> <svcs> <!-- If true, the agent will always report with green status --> <setting name="alwaysgreen" value="false" /> <!-- If true, the agent will restart all "automatic services" which would be stopped --> <setting name="autoreset" value="false" /> <setting name="alarmcolor" value="yellow" /> <!-- The line bellow show you svcs rules. If the "Automatic Updates" service is stopped, it will be automatically restarted and a red status will be sent --> <!-- until the service get it's correct status --> <setting name="Automatic Updates" value="started" autoreset="true" alarmcolor="red" /> --> </svcs> <uptime> <setting name="delay" value="30m" /> <setting name="maxdelay" value="365d" /> </uptime> </configuration>

Ray

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