No need to reboot the machine... only kill the bbwin.exe in task manager and refresh services list. Then restart bbwin service.

I am having this trouble with an Exchange server and the source is that its logging very much in the system log and that seems to piss off the bbwin client. Same issue with BBWIN 0.9 and 0.10.. have not tried 0.11 yet. This happens 2-3 times a week.

Hope this helps,

Larus

From: Josh Luthman [mailto:josh at imaginenetworksllc.com] Sent: 17. mars 2008 23:21 To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] BBWIN Client running on Exchange server issues?

On that note I suggest pskill by Sysinternals: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896683.aspx

On 3/17/08, David Gilmore <david at stenhouseconsulting.com> wrote:

Bruce,

I have had v0.8-v0.10 running on my Exchange box for a while. It was first running v.8 and v.9 on a W2k3 box with E2k3 and never experienced a client issue. I currently have v.10 running on a W2k3 x64 and E2k7 box. Have plans to move to v.11 but have not gotten to it.

I would also suggest that you look for a copy of kill.exe from the old NT Resource Kit. It will save you a lot of reboots when services hang.

Did you check the BBWIN logs?

David

From: White, Bruce [mailto:bewhite at fellowes.com] Sent: Monday, March 17, 2008 6:56 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: [hobbit] BBWIN Client running on Exchange server issues?

Anyone had problems running the BBWIN client on Windows running MS exchange? We have it installed and running on two different MS exchange servers (both running MS Exchange 2003, one on Win2K, the other Win2003) and for some reason the client hangs. If you try to stop the service, it stays in a "stopping" state and the only way to get it restarted is to cycle the machine. We are running BBWIN 0.9, but my windows guys are afraid to go to 0.11. Has anyone experienced this before? Will upgrading to 0.11 solve the issue?

Thanks,

Bruce

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I monitor more windows services using BBWin or the bb BTF client, specifically I do:

Distributed File System access and replication

NT Backup file sizes and dates as well as checking the backup log and event log for backup errors.

I run dcdiags and netdiags every night and check for errors

I defrag every night and check for errors (Defrag is a good forwarner of problems rather than there be any need to defrag every night).

DHCP is responding and still has free addresses to lease (DNS is done by netdiags above).

Symantec AV

and interface errors on switches and ping times to them and anything else you want to ping (like a printer on the far end of your LAN).

These are all done by VB scripts and the external facility of BB BTF or BBWin.

There is a difference between how BBWin 0.9 and BB BTF client handle the external files created by the scripts and not all these scripts have been updated to work on BBWin. See http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?thread_id=1875682&forum_id=460874 for more info. I don't know if this has been fixed, I haven't found mention in the release notes.

If you promise not to laugh at the coding you can download the scripts for a short while from www.shea.com.au/downloads/BBScripts.zip. feel free to post them on the shire.

As for the original examples you gave I monitor the Exchange, SQL and Sharepoint services as well as their web site response. I haven't expanded on these because as counter intuitive as it seems my Exchange and SQL are non critical services and the chance of me not catching the errors with such simple monitoring is fairly slim. Your Windows admins should be able to script something they will be happy with if you give them the above scripts as examples.

Hope these help

Regards

Graeme

From: Everett, Vernon [mailto:Vernon.Everett at woodside.com.au] Sent: Tuesday, 18 March 2008 3:25 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: [hobbit] BBWIN - beyond the basics

Hi

Is anybody monitoring any Windoze applications with BBWIN and Hobbit?

Exchange, Sharepoint, SQL-Server, etc.

What level of success have you experienced?

What scripts and/or applications are you using to do it?

Regards

Vernon

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