Hello,
I publish today BBWin 0.11. This is the new stuffs I put in it (focused on centralized mode) :
BBWin 0.11 Preview version - February 11th 2008
- svcs centralized mode with autorestart option
- new agent to be used with centralized mode : filesystem.dll
- file client-local.cfg implemented : support md5 and sha1 checksum algorithms
- dir client-local.cfg implemented
- logfile client-local.cfg implemented
- linecount client-local.cfg implemented
- back quotes for FILENAME and DIRECTORY implemented.
- eventlog client-local.cfg implemented : msgs.dll
- fix initialisation error on bbwinupdate agent
- prevent loading bbwin.cfg agent configurations when centralized mode enabled
- fix memory leak on bbwinupdate agent
- fix memory leak on service BBWin.exe when centralized mode enabled
- Use ip address instead of mac address for the graph title for network interfaces (ifstat)
- multiple bbdisplay supported when centralized mode enabled
- Who agent now use qwinsta executable output instead of native functions
- Centralized Mode implemented directly in future hobbit 4.3 and with a patch for hobbit 4.2
Here the link for the download :
http://sourceforge.net/projects/bbwin
As you can see, almost all options from client-local.cfg are now implemented for the Windows client. Syntax for client-local.cfg and for hobbit-clients.cfg are the same than Unix side so it will be very easy to use. Client autoupdate is the latest feature to implement to be at the same level than Unix hobbit client.
Centralized mode server part is now included in current hobbit snapshot (future 4.3). For hobbit 4.2, there is a new patch available on the bbwin webpage : http://bbwin.sourceforge.net/
Options from client-local.cfg only work with centralized mode. To enable these new features for centralized mode, you will have to turn on central mode and load the new agent filesystem.dll in your BBWin.cfg which is not loaded by default at this time. For the moment, local mode is still the default mode for BBWin. When hobbit 4.3 will be released, BBWin default mode will become central and filesystem.dll loaded.
It would help a lot if people who have testing hobbit servers could try to use BBWin new features to find out if there are any bugs in it :-) People who are testing BBWin centralized mode with 0.10 should upgrade to 0.11 and get the new patch for hobbit 4.2 or the current snapshot of hobbit.
As usual, let me know if you get troubles with this new version.
Regards,
-- Etienne GRIGNON
On Monday 11 February 2008, Etienne Grignon wrote:
As usual, let me know if you get troubles with this new version. I have a feature request. We have some custom scripts and the output is too big to send from the command line. So we changed the source so you can specify a file as the message. Is it possible to include this in the default client? Now we have to recompile the client each time you do a new release.
Stef
Hello Stef,
2008/2/12, Stef Coene <stef.coene at docum.org>:
On Monday 11 February 2008, Etienne Grignon wrote:
As usual, let me know if you get troubles with this new version. I have a feature request. We have some custom scripts and the output is too big to send from the command line. So we changed the source so you can specify a file as the message. Is it possible to include this in the default client? Now we have to recompile the client each time you do a new release.
Sure, could you send me the modification you made so I can apply your add on to the bbwin sources ?
Thanks,
-- Etienne GRIGNON
On Tuesday 12 February 2008, Etienne Grignon wrote:
Sure, could you send me the modification you made so I can apply your add on to the bbwin sources ? I finally got an answer. The function void UploadMessage(int argc, char *argv[], BBWinNet & bbobj) is added. So you can execute "bbwincmd.exe <bbdisplay>[:<port>] uploadmessage <filename>"
Thx,
Stef
Hello Stef,
2008/2/26, Stef Coene <stef.coene at docum.org>:
On Tuesday 12 February 2008, Etienne Grignon wrote:
Sure, could you send me the modification you made so I can apply your add on to the bbwin sources ?
I finally got an answer. The function void UploadMessage(int argc, char *argv[], BBWinNet & bbobj) is added. So you can execute "bbwincmd.exe <bbdisplay>[:<port>] uploadmessage <filename>"
I applied your patch to the bbwin sources :
http://bbwin.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/bbwin?view=rev&revision=90
Thank you very much,
Etienne.
On Wednesday 27 February 2008, Etienne Grignon wrote:
Hello Stef,
2008/2/26, Stef Coene <stef.coene at docum.org>:
On Tuesday 12 February 2008, Etienne Grignon wrote:
Sure, could you send me the modification you made so I can apply your add on to the bbwin sources ?
I finally got an answer. The function void UploadMessage(int argc, char *argv[], BBWinNet & bbobj) is added. So you can execute "bbwincmd.exe <bbdisplay>[:<port>] uploadmessage <filename>"
I applied your patch to the bbwin sources :
http://bbwin.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/bbwin?view=rev&revision=90 Thx, have you a recompiled version somewhere so I can test it ?
Stef
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Hello Magnus,
2008/2/12, Magnus Carlebjörk <magnus at carlebjork.se>:
Hi.
I installed the new version of bbwin on my workstation over a previous 0.10 installation using 2 hobbit 4.3 servers. I received this error:
I can't see any errors on the hobbit server though...
On the server side, things behave as they did before, that is, client-side details are only sent to the first server.
Any thoughts on why I receive this error?
Well, after some new tests, it seems multiple bbdisplays still doesn't work very well with centralized mode :( I will work on it and let you know when I definitely resolve the issue.
-- Etienne GRIGNON
Hi. I have installed the BBWin 0.11 Hobbit server patch and the new BBWin 0.11 client version. I am running in centralized mode. Most items look good, but I having trouble getting the 'svcs' and 'files' columns to work with a Windows machine. What is the correct syntax in the client-local.cfg and hobbit-clients.cfg files for Windows files and services? I have tried various options with no luck so far. The other items in centralized mode look great. This was a huge improvement!!
Thank you in advance for your help.
Bryan
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Hello,
I publish today BBWin 0.11. This is the new stuffs I put in it (focused on centralized mode) :
BBWin 0.11 Preview version - February 11th 2008
- svcs centralized mode with autorestart option
- new agent to be used with centralized mode : filesystem.dll
- file client-local.cfg implemented : support md5 and sha1 checksum algorithms
- dir client-local.cfg implemented
- logfile client-local.cfg implemented
- linecount client-local.cfg implemented
- back quotes for FILENAME and DIRECTORY implemented.
- eventlog client-local.cfg implemented : msgs.dll
- fix initialisation error on bbwinupdate agent
- prevent loading bbwin.cfg agent configurations when centralized mode enabled
- fix memory leak on bbwinupdate agent
- fix memory leak on service BBWin.exe when centralized mode enabled
- Use ip address instead of mac address for the graph title for network interfaces (ifstat)
- multiple bbdisplay supported when centralized mode enabled
- Who agent now use qwinsta executable output instead of native functions
- Centralized Mode implemented directly in future hobbit 4.3 and with a patch for hobbit 4.2
Here the link for the download :
http://sourceforge.net/projects/bbwin
As you can see, almost all options from client-local.cfg are now implemented for the Windows client. Syntax for client-local.cfg and for hobbit-clients.cfg are the same than Unix side so it will be very easy to use. Client autoupdate is the latest feature to implement to be at the same level than Unix hobbit client.
Centralized mode server part is now included in current hobbit snapshot (future 4.3). For hobbit 4.2, there is a new patch available on the bbwin webpage : http://bbwin.sourceforge.net/
Options from client-local.cfg only work with centralized mode. To enable these new features for centralized mode, you will have to turn on central mode and load the new agent filesystem.dll in your BBWin.cfg which is not loaded by default at this time. For the moment, local mode is still the default mode for BBWin. When hobbit 4.3 will be released, BBWin default mode will become central and filesystem.dll loaded.
It would help a lot if people who have testing hobbit servers could try to use BBWin new features to find out if there are any bugs in it :-) People who are testing BBWin centralized mode with 0.10 should upgrade to 0.11 and get the new patch for hobbit 4.2 or the current snapshot of hobbit.
As usual, let me know if you get troubles with this new version.
Regards,
-- Etienne GRIGNON
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Hi Brian,
2008/2/13, Bryan A Kennedy <b-kennedy1 at raytheon.com>:
Hi. I have installed the BBWin 0.11 Hobbit server patch and the new BBWin 0.11 client version. I am running in centralized mode. Most items look good, but I having trouble getting the 'svcs' and 'files' columns to work with a Windows machine. What is the correct syntax in the client-local.cfg and hobbit-clients.cfg files for Windows files and services? I have tried various options with no luck so far. The other items in centralized mode look great. This was a huge improvement!!
This is the man page part for SVC usage in hobbit-clients.cfg :
SVC servicename startup status color
The "svcs" listing sent by the client will be scanned to check
that specific services are running.
"servicename" is a simple string, in which case this string must
show up in the "svcs" listing.
Note that servicename is case-sensitive.
If "servicename" contains whitespace (blanks or TAB),
you must enclose
the full string in double quotes. You cannot use regular
expression.
Both options startup and status are required and are
simple strings, and
must show up in the "svcs" listing as StartupType and
Status columns.
SVC Fax startup=manual status=stopped
SVC MSSQLSERVER startup=automatic status=started
You can have multiple "SVC" entries for the same host, all of the
checks are merged into the "svcs" status and the most severe
check defines the color of the status.
Example: Check that SQL Server Agent is running:
SVC SQLSERVERAGENT startup=automatic status=started
color=yellow
Defaults: color="red".
Note: No service are checked by default.
This is the man page part for SVC usage in client-local.cfg :
"svcautorestart:on|off" (BBWin client only)
Enable the automatic restart of stopped services which
are configured in the automatic startup mode.
This is some examples of configuration :
hobbit-clients.cfg :
HOST=myserver LOAD 80 90 DISK D 50 55 DISK colt 30 35 MEMPHYS 90 101 MEMSWAP 90 95 MEMACT 90 97 PORT "LOCAL=%([.:]80)$" state=LISTENING TEXT=http #SVC BBWin startup=automatic status=stopped SVC Fax startup=manual status=stopped SVC SQLSERVERAGENT startup=automatic status=started color=yellow PROC BBWin.exe 1 1 PROC svchost.exe 3 4 FILE "C:\Program Files\BBWin\bin\BBWin.exe" MTIME=1128514608 SIZE=645140 MD5=5bd81afecf0eb93849a2fd9df54e8bcbe3fefd72 LOG %.* %.*error.* COLOR=yellow DIR "C:\restore\perso" SIZE<5000
client-local.cfg :
[win32]
svcautorestart:on
file:C:\Program Files\BBWin\bin\who.dll:md5
file:C:\Program Files\BBWin\bin\disk.dll:sha1
file:C:\Program Files\BBWin\bin\BBWin.exe:md5
file:C:\Program Files\BBWin\bin\toto
file:C:\restore\perso
file:D:\log files\listing.cmd
log:C:\files.cmd:189345
log:C:\Program Files\BBWin\logs\BBWin.log:51200
ignore drive string
ignore .*DEBUG.*
ignore destroyed
ignore Terminating
ignore info
ignore started
linecount:C:\WINDOWS\setupapi.log
HARDS hardware ID\(s\)
eventlog:Security
ignore process has been created: New Process
ignore A process has exited: Process ID:
ignore Privileged object operation
ignore Object Open: Object Server
eventlog:application
ignore BigBrotherHobbitClient \(10\)
As you can see, it use the same syntax than unix. I hope it will help you.
-- Etienne GRIGNON
Etienne Thank you. It is looking great now, and is a huge enhancement. I'm not sure if I made mistakes during the setup, but I had to do a few extra things. Just in case I didn't make a mistake, Here is what I did. I applied bbwin_4.2.patch, but I had to add the lib/misc.c patch changes (below) to the newest bbwin_4.2.patch. The bbwin_4.2.patch from bbwin_0.10 had it, but it was missing from the 0.11 patch I had. @@ -69,6 +69,7 @@ else if (strcasecmp(osname, "macosx") == 0) result = OS_DARWIN; else if (strcasecmp(osname, "darwin") == 0) result = OS_DARWIN; else if (strcasecmp(osname, "sco_sv") == 0) result = OS_SCO_SV; + else if (strcasecmp(osname, "bbwin") == 0) result = OS_WIN32_BBWIN; if (result == OS_UNKNOWN) dbgprintf("Unknown OS: '%s'\n", osname); @@ -94,6 +95,7 @@ case OS_IRIX: return "irix"; case OS_DARWIN: return "darwin"; case OS_SCO_SV: return "sco_sv"; + case OS_WIN32_BBWIN: return "bbwin"; case OS_UNKNOWN: return "unknown"; } I had to add <load name="files" value="filesystem.dll"/> to bbwin.cfg on the Windows clients under the <bbwin> section. The SVC restart option worked on my test machine and stopped service. The file, dir and svc checks are all now working. The TEXT enhancement is very nice. Great work on this new client for Windows. We use it heavily and it has been very well received. Thank you for your hard work. Regards, Bryan "Etienne Grignon" <etienne.grignon@ gmail.com> To hobbit at hswn.dk 02/14/2008 03:33 cc AM Subject Re: [hobbit] bbwin 0.11 available Please respond to hobbit at hswn.dk Hi Brian, 2008/2/13, Bryan A Kennedy <b-kennedy1 at raytheon.com>:
Hi. I have installed the BBWin 0.11 Hobbit server patch and the new
BBWin
0.11 client version. I am running in centralized mode. Most items look good, but I having trouble getting the 'svcs' and 'files' columns to work with a Windows machine. What is the correct syntax in the client-local.cfg and hobbit-clients.cfg files for Windows files and services? I have tried various options with no luck so far. The other items in centralized mode look great. This was a huge improvement!!
This is the man page part for SVC usage in hobbit-clients.cfg : # SVC servicename startup status color # The "svcs" listing sent by the client will be scanned to check # that specific services are running. # # "servicename" is a simple string, in which case this string must # show up in the "svcs" listing. # Note that servicename is case-sensitive. # # If "servicename" contains whitespace (blanks or TAB), you must enclose # the full string in double quotes. You cannot use regular expression. # Both options startup and status are required and are simple strings, and # must show up in the "svcs" listing as StartupType and Status columns. # # SVC Fax startup=manual status=stopped # SVC MSSQLSERVER startup=automatic status=started # # You can have multiple "SVC" entries for the same host, all of the # checks are merged into the "svcs" status and the most severe # check defines the color of the status. # # Example: Check that SQL Server Agent is running: # SVC SQLSERVERAGENT startup=automatic status=started color=yellow # # Defaults: color="red". # Note: No service are checked by default. This is the man page part for SVC usage in client-local.cfg : # "svcautorestart:on|off" (BBWin client only) # Enable the automatic restart of stopped services which # are configured in the automatic startup mode. This is some examples of configuration : hobbit-clients.cfg : HOST=myserver LOAD 80 90 DISK D 50 55 DISK colt 30 35 MEMPHYS 90 101 MEMSWAP 90 95 MEMACT 90 97 PORT "LOCAL=%([.:]80)$" state=LISTENING TEXT=http #SVC BBWin startup=automatic status=stopped SVC Fax startup=manual status=stopped SVC SQLSERVERAGENT startup=automatic status=started color=yellow PROC BBWin.exe 1 1 PROC svchost.exe 3 4 FILE "C:\Program Files\BBWin\bin\BBWin.exe" MTIME=1128514608 SIZE=645140 MD5=5bd81afecf0eb93849a2fd9df54e8bcbe3fefd72 LOG %.* %.*error.* COLOR=yellow DIR "C:\restore\perso" SIZE<5000 client-local.cfg : [win32] svcautorestart:on file:C:\Program Files\BBWin\bin\who.dll:md5 file:C:\Program Files\BBWin\bin\disk.dll:sha1 file:C:\Program Files\BBWin\bin\BBWin.exe:md5 file:C:\Program Files\BBWin\bin\toto file:C:\restore\perso file:`D:\log files\listing.cmd` log:`C:\files.cmd`:189345 log:C:\Program Files\BBWin\logs\BBWin.log:51200 ignore drive string ignore .*DEBUG.* ignore destroyed ignore Terminating ignore info ignore started linecount:C:\WINDOWS\setupapi.log HARDS hardware ID\(s\) eventlog:Security ignore process has been created: New Process ignore A process has exited: Process ID: ignore Privileged object operation ignore Object Open: Object Server eventlog:application ignore BigBrotherHobbitClient \(10\) As you can see, it use the same syntax than unix. I hope it will help you. -- Etienne GRIGNON To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk
Hi Bryan, 2008/2/18, Bryan A Kennedy <b-kennedy1 at raytheon.com>:
Etienne Thank you. It is looking great now, and is a huge enhancement. I'm not sure if I made mistakes during the setup, but I had to do a few extra things. Just in case I didn't make a mistake, Here is what I did.
I applied bbwin_4.2.patch, but I had to add the lib/misc.c patch changes (below) to the newest bbwin_4.2.patch. The bbwin_4.2.patch from bbwin_0.10 had it, but it was missing from the 0.11 patch I had.
@@ -69,6 +69,7 @@ else if (strcasecmp(osname, "macosx") == 0) result = OS_DARWIN; else if (strcasecmp(osname, "darwin") == 0) result = OS_DARWIN; else if (strcasecmp(osname, "sco_sv") == 0) result = OS_SCO_SV; + else if (strcasecmp(osname, "bbwin") == 0) result = OS_WIN32_BBWIN;
if (result == OS_UNKNOWN) dbgprintf("Unknown OS: '%s'\n", osname);
@@ -94,6 +95,7 @@ case OS_IRIX: return "irix"; case OS_DARWIN: return "darwin"; case OS_SCO_SV: return "sco_sv"; + case OS_WIN32_BBWIN: return "bbwin"; case OS_UNKNOWN: return "unknown"; }
Thanks for reporting that, I forgot that path when I generated the patch for hobbit 4.2. I updated the patch available on the bbwin webpage.
I had to add <load name="files" value="filesystem.dll"/> to bbwin.cfg on the Windows clients under the <bbwin> section.
Yes, you have to add it manually for the moment.
The SVC restart option worked on my test machine and stopped service. The file, dir and svc checks are all now working. The TEXT enhancement is very nice.
Don't hesitate to report bugs or abnormal things when using it, it will be very helpful to make it better. Best Regards, -- Etienne GRIGNON
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This is great news.. I had been wreaking my head with this one... Great work Etienne...
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