On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 7:10 AM, Gillis Bart <Bart.Gillis at cegeka.be> wrote:

Hi tj,

I've been using BBwin for several years now with great success.

In your BBWin deployment experience, Does BBWin really can do client binary update like the Unix client does ?

I am going to deploy BBwin at my work place, any advice is welcome.

I am also hoping to create my own BBWin012.msi so that I can include the customization I need inside .msi file.

tj

I would like to help the xymon community but I've 2 major problems with the participation to BBwin or Mr. Big.

First of all I'm not a developer so I cannot write C programs. As a system engineer I can however write some scripting languages (Perl, vbscript,..) to provide some customized monitors.

The latest year I had some issues with the mechanism of the BBwin or Mr. Big agents. We are monitoring some servers through a L2L VPN connection. In these link we are working with a dynamic NAT protocol so we do not know to which IP address the messages should be send. Our company does not allow connections being initiated from the outside network. (Which is the way BBwin works)

No experience in this area, others may be able to help.

Another problem is the big bandwidth problem. On windows 2008 servers, the port check produces much info making the messages too big.

we should be able to configure BBWin to send in offending messages to xymon server.

Due to this problem I can't use BBWin nor Mr. Big.

I found however a monitoring agent that perfectly matches with my previous mentioned remarks. (the Nagios check_nt agent that listens to the xymon server through a perl script.) So I would like to share my experience on this agent but unfortunately my lack of development skills don't permit me to participate in tha BBWin or Mr. Big agents. Despites the many man hours already put in the existing agenBB-win and Mr. Big, I have to continue with the Nagios agent (But I'm working on the nagios check_nrpe pligin that replaces the nagios check_nt plugin)

Met vriendelijke groeten,

Bart Gillis

-----Original Message----- From: TJ Yang [mailto:tjyang2001 at gmail.com] Sent: vrijdag 2 juli 2010 16:30 To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] CPU, Disk and memory message format to obtain valuable Graphs

On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 2:37 AM, Gillis Bart <Bart.Gillis at cegeka.be> wrote:

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Hello,

I am developing another windows client based on the nagios nrpe plugin.

The script is based on the checkwin monitor that you can find in http://code.google.com/p/checkwin/

Tests are going well but I have a problem with the graphs that are generated for the disks, cpu and memory values.

Can anyone help me with the format that I have to send to the xymon server?

I don't know on which parameters the rrd files are generated for these particular tests.

Hi, Bart

Would you consider participate the maintenance  of BBWin or Mr. Big ? These two projects have many man-hours put in already and they are currently  stale/dead at the moment. We need people to maintain or enhance xymon  windows client.

tj

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Thanks in advance

Bart Gillis

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