On 22/01/11 4:21 AM, Henrik Størner wrote:

In <AANLkTimfVMpA=J=oZ1GY6LwgRH2pm=6bpmVk-b6NPTOL at mail.gmail.com> Vernon Everett <everett.vernon at gmail.com> writes:

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Can anybody tell me the current status of Windows clients for Xymon? Is BBWin still the best we have? I remember seeing somebody on the list working on a new Windows client. Where are we on that? It is working pretty well, but is still being developed very much. For production use, I would probably stick with BBWin, but you are very welcome to try out the Xymonclient - it's available on Sourceforge at http://xymon.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/xymon/sandbox/WinPSClient/

There has been some talk about releasing it at the same time as the 4.3.0 server release. I think that could be a possibility, but Dave Baldwin (who has done most of the development after my initial proof-of-concept version) has some say in this.

Regards, Henrik

XymonPSClient is working fine for me on various 2003R2 and 2008 servers. It hasn't been tested much on XP, Vista or Win7 so there may be issues there.

There are still a number of issues that would ideally be resolved before a release. Off the top of my head:

• due to Service runner used (ABC_SRVANY.EXE) being 32-bit, when running as a service it runs in 32-bit mode only. There may be a workaround for this - the problem is the path mangling done by Windows to keep the 32 and 64-bit "worlds" separate. If anyone knows of a path to invoke the 64-bit powershell interpreter from the 32-bit world that's what's required. I haven't looked very hard yet.
• running as a service is fragile. The runner does not monitor its child at all, so if the powershell process died the service would still appear to be running. A proper service runner is really required to solve both of these. I haven't actually experienced any problems in my test environment, but I'm uncomfortable with the current situation. At least the client would go purple if it died I guess.
• it doesn't support external scripts yet. I was hoping that another project Neil Franken was working on could be adapted to solve all of these, but I'm not aware he has got it to a stage of broader circulation. His last post to the list indicated he was changing jobs, so not sure if he's even on the list anymore.
• a few pending feature requests/bug fixes of my own and from the list I need to add in when I get time.

Happy to discuss all of the above.

David.

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