custom scripts for windows servers
Hi
Our dev decided to create a groovy script since the tests it needs to do is complex.
He created a small test script which I copied to the ext folder: test.groovy def file1 = new File('C:/Program Files (x86)/BBWin/tmp/test.txt') file1.write 'Test message'
Added to externals block:
<externals> <setting name="timer" value="3m" /> <setting name="logstimer" value="60s" /> <load value="groovy test.groovy" timer="1m" /> <!-- 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>
I Also tried the full path to test.groovy. Restarted the client, I even set the log on as from Local system to Administrator.
The file "test.txt" is not created. There's no errors logged in the BBWin.log
How can I be sure BBwin is executing the script? Groovy is installed. "C:\groovy-2.4.15\bin\groovy" I am able to run the script from command prompt and the test.txt file is created.
Kind regards From: Beck, Zak <zak.beck at accenture.com> Sent: Friday, May 4, 2018 12:37 PM To: Chris Pretorius <chrisp at lightstoneauto.co.za>; xymon at xymon.com Subject: RE: custome scripts for windows servers
Hi Chris
BBWin or WinPSClient do not have a built in scripting language, they only support scripts that the OS already knows how to run. This will depend on what tools you have installed on your servers.
By default, Windows servers will definitely run VBScript (VBS) and most newer versions (Windows Server 2008 onwards, Windows 7 onwards) will run Powershell.
There are a number of script samples in BBWin in the externals folder and for WinPSClient, the documentation is fairly complete in this area.
Both BBWin and WinPSClient can return data from any script if that script writes a text file to the tmp folder (which is a subfolder of BBWin or WinPSClient).
Below is a Powershell example of testing DNS lookup for google.com - this is not necessarily the best way to test DNS, it is provided as a simple example of an external script.
If this were saved as "google-dns.ps1", and a SHA1 hash of the file generated, it can be used with the WinPSClient by adding a line like this to client-local.cfg - you do not need to replace the {script} with anything, the client will do that:
external:everyscan:sync:http://<xymon server>/PS_Updates/google-dns.ps1|SHA1|<sha1 value>|powershell.exe|-executionpolicy remotesigned -noprofile -file "{script}"
Cheers
Zak
param( [string] $TestName = 'googledns' )
$scriptdir = split-path -parent $MyInvocation.MyCommand.Definition $datadir = join-path $scriptdir '..\tmp' -Resolve
$groupColour = 'green'
try { $results = [System.Net.DNS]::GetHostAddresses('www.google.com') } catch { $groupColour = 'red' $message = "Error performing DNS query: $_" }
if ($groupColour -eq 'green')
{
$ips = $results | foreach { $_.IPAddressToString }
$message = "Result of DNS query:rn"
$message += ($ips -join "rn")
}
$timeFormatted = Get-Date -Format 'dd-MMM-yyyy HH:mm' $output = ` @" $($groupColour)+10m $TestName as at $timeFormatted (updated approx every 5 minutes)
DNS query for www.google.com<http://www.google.com>
$message
<br><p>Information from $($Env:computername)</p>
"@
$dataFile = Join-Path $datadir $TestName $output | Set-Content $datafile
From: Xymon [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Chris Pretorius Sent: Friday, 4 May 2018 10:32 To: xymon at xymon.com<mailto:xymon at xymon.com> Subject: [External] [Xymon] custome scripts for windows servers
Good day all
Can someone please send links to example custom scripts for windows server.
We are mostly a Linux shop but have a few Windows servers. They are monitored on xymon and it is currently a mix of BBwin and winpsclients.
My google skills has let me down as I could not find examples except for bash script examples..
Does BBwin or winpsclient support groovy script or can I only use VBscript?
Kind regards
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Hi
I'm no BBWin expert - have you tried supplying the full path to the groovy executable?
e.g.
<load value=" C:\groovy-2.4.15\bin\groovy test.groovy" timer="1m" />
Cheers
Zak
From: Chris Pretorius [mailto:chrisp at lightstoneauto.co.za] Sent: Friday, 18 May 2018 13:11 To: Beck, Zak <zak.beck at accenture.com>; xymon at xymon.com Subject: [External] RE: custom scripts for windows servers
Hi
Our dev decided to create a groovy script since the tests it needs to do is complex.
He created a small test script which I copied to the ext folder: test.groovy def file1 = new File('C:/Program Files (x86)/BBWin/tmp/test.txt') file1.write 'Test message'
Added to externals block:
<externals> <setting name="timer" value="3m" /> <setting name="logstimer" value="60s" /> <load value="groovy test.groovy" timer="1m" /> <!-- 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>
I Also tried the full path to test.groovy. Restarted the client, I even set the log on as from Local system to Administrator.
The file "test.txt" is not created. There's no errors logged in the BBWin.log
How can I be sure BBwin is executing the script? Groovy is installed. "C:\groovy-2.4.15\bin\groovy" I am able to run the script from command prompt and the test.txt file is created.
Kind regards From: Beck, Zak <zak.beck at accenture.com<mailto:zak.beck at accenture.com>> Sent: Friday, May 4, 2018 12:37 PM To: Chris Pretorius <chrisp at lightstoneauto.co.za<mailto:chrisp at lightstoneauto.co.za>>; xymon at xymon.com<mailto:xymon at xymon.com> Subject: RE: custome scripts for windows servers
Hi Chris
BBWin or WinPSClient do not have a built in scripting language, they only support scripts that the OS already knows how to run. This will depend on what tools you have installed on your servers.
By default, Windows servers will definitely run VBScript (VBS) and most newer versions (Windows Server 2008 onwards, Windows 7 onwards) will run Powershell.
There are a number of script samples in BBWin in the externals folder and for WinPSClient, the documentation is fairly complete in this area.
Both BBWin and WinPSClient can return data from any script if that script writes a text file to the tmp folder (which is a subfolder of BBWin or WinPSClient).
Below is a Powershell example of testing DNS lookup for google.com - this is not necessarily the best way to test DNS, it is provided as a simple example of an external script.
If this were saved as "google-dns.ps1", and a SHA1 hash of the file generated, it can be used with the WinPSClient by adding a line like this to client-local.cfg - you do not need to replace the {script} with anything, the client will do that:
external:everyscan:sync:http://<xymon server>/PS_Updates/google-dns.ps1|SHA1|<sha1 value>|powershell.exe|-executionpolicy remotesigned -noprofile -file "{script}"
Cheers
Zak
param( [string] $TestName = 'googledns' )
$scriptdir = split-path -parent $MyInvocation.MyCommand.Definition $datadir = join-path $scriptdir '..\tmp' -Resolve
$groupColour = 'green'
try { $results = [System.Net.DNS]::GetHostAddresses('www.google.com') } catch { $groupColour = 'red' $message = "Error performing DNS query: $_" }
if ($groupColour -eq 'green')
{
$ips = $results | foreach { $_.IPAddressToString }
$message = "Result of DNS query:rn"
$message += ($ips -join "rn")
}
$timeFormatted = Get-Date -Format 'dd-MMM-yyyy HH:mm' $output = ` @" $($groupColour)+10m $TestName as at $timeFormatted (updated approx every 5 minutes)
$message
<br><p>Information from $($Env:computername)</p>
"@
$dataFile = Join-Path $datadir $TestName $output | Set-Content $datafile
From: Xymon [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Chris Pretorius Sent: Friday, 4 May 2018 10:32 To: xymon at xymon.com<mailto:xymon at xymon.com> Subject: [External] [Xymon] custome scripts for windows servers
Good day all
Can someone please send links to example custom scripts for windows server.
We are mostly a Linux shop but have a few Windows servers. They are monitored on xymon and it is currently a mix of BBwin and winpsclients.
My google skills has let me down as I could not find examples except for bash script examples..
Does BBwin or winpsclient support groovy script or can I only use VBscript?
Kind regards
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Chris Pretorius
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0872367740
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Hi Zak
Yes I did. Made no difference.
Regards
From: Beck, Zak <zak.beck at accenture.com> Sent: Friday, May 18, 2018 2:57 PM To: Chris Pretorius <chrisp at lightstoneauto.co.za>; xymon at xymon.com Subject: RE: custom scripts for windows servers
Hi
I'm no BBWin expert - have you tried supplying the full path to the groovy executable?
e.g.
<load value=" C:\groovy-2.4.15\bin\groovy test.groovy" timer="1m" />
Cheers
Zak
From: Chris Pretorius [mailto:chrisp at lightstoneauto.co.za] Sent: Friday, 18 May 2018 13:11 To: Beck, Zak <zak.beck at accenture.com<mailto:zak.beck at accenture.com>>; xymon at xymon.com<mailto:xymon at xymon.com> Subject: [External] RE: custom scripts for windows servers
Hi
Our dev decided to create a groovy script since the tests it needs to do is complex.
He created a small test script which I copied to the ext folder: test.groovy def file1 = new File('C:/Program Files (x86)/BBWin/tmp/test.txt') file1.write 'Test message'
Added to externals block:
<externals> <setting name="timer" value="3m" /> <setting name="logstimer" value="60s" /> <load value="groovy test.groovy" timer="1m" /> <!-- 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>
I Also tried the full path to test.groovy. Restarted the client, I even set the log on as from Local system to Administrator.
The file "test.txt" is not created. There's no errors logged in the BBWin.log
How can I be sure BBwin is executing the script? Groovy is installed. "C:\groovy-2.4.15\bin\groovy" I am able to run the script from command prompt and the test.txt file is created.
Kind regards From: Beck, Zak <zak.beck at accenture.com<mailto:zak.beck at accenture.com>> Sent: Friday, May 4, 2018 12:37 PM To: Chris Pretorius <chrisp at lightstoneauto.co.za<mailto:chrisp at lightstoneauto.co.za>>; xymon at xymon.com<mailto:xymon at xymon.com> Subject: RE: custome scripts for windows servers
Hi Chris
BBWin or WinPSClient do not have a built in scripting language, they only support scripts that the OS already knows how to run. This will depend on what tools you have installed on your servers.
By default, Windows servers will definitely run VBScript (VBS) and most newer versions (Windows Server 2008 onwards, Windows 7 onwards) will run Powershell.
There are a number of script samples in BBWin in the externals folder and for WinPSClient, the documentation is fairly complete in this area.
Both BBWin and WinPSClient can return data from any script if that script writes a text file to the tmp folder (which is a subfolder of BBWin or WinPSClient).
Below is a Powershell example of testing DNS lookup for google.com - this is not necessarily the best way to test DNS, it is provided as a simple example of an external script.
If this were saved as "google-dns.ps1", and a SHA1 hash of the file generated, it can be used with the WinPSClient by adding a line like this to client-local.cfg - you do not need to replace the {script} with anything, the client will do that:
external:everyscan:sync:http://<xymon server>/PS_Updates/google-dns.ps1|SHA1|<sha1 value>|powershell.exe|-executionpolicy remotesigned -noprofile -file "{script}"
Cheers
Zak
param( [string] $TestName = 'googledns' )
$scriptdir = split-path -parent $MyInvocation.MyCommand.Definition $datadir = join-path $scriptdir '..\tmp' -Resolve
$groupColour = 'green'
try { $results = [System.Net.DNS]::GetHostAddresses('www.google.com') } catch { $groupColour = 'red' $message = "Error performing DNS query: $_" }
if ($groupColour -eq 'green')
{
$ips = $results | foreach { $_.IPAddressToString }
$message = "Result of DNS query:rn"
$message += ($ips -join "rn")
}
$timeFormatted = Get-Date -Format 'dd-MMM-yyyy HH:mm' $output = ` @" $($groupColour)+10m $TestName as at $timeFormatted (updated approx every 5 minutes)
$message
<br><p>Information from $($Env:computername)</p>
"@
$dataFile = Join-Path $datadir $TestName $output | Set-Content $datafile
From: Xymon [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Chris Pretorius Sent: Friday, 4 May 2018 10:32 To: xymon at xymon.com<mailto:xymon at xymon.com> Subject: [External] [Xymon] custome scripts for windows servers
Good day all
Can someone please send links to example custom scripts for windows server.
We are mostly a Linux shop but have a few Windows servers. They are monitored on xymon and it is currently a mix of BBwin and winpsclients.
My google skills has let me down as I could not find examples except for bash script examples..
Does BBwin or winpsclient support groovy script or can I only use VBscript?
Kind regards
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Chris Pretorius
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0872367740
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Hi,
I found the hard way that BBwin is running in a 32.bit context and that bbwin.cfg requires 8.3 file notation and a full path for the script as well You might try <load value=" C:\groovy~1\bin\groovy C:\Progra~2\BBwin\ext\test.groovy" timer="1m" />
Use dir /x to find out how the ~ strings are on your system
Regards
Alfred
PS: I'd rather recommend WinPSClient and PowerShell - well supported and 64-bit proof :)
From: Xymon [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Beck, Zak Sent: Freitag, 18. Mai 2018 14:57 To: Chris Pretorius <chrisp at lightstoneauto.co.za>; xymon at xymon.com Subject: Re: [Xymon] custom scripts for windows servers
Hi
I'm no BBWin expert - have you tried supplying the full path to the groovy executable?
e.g.
<load value=" C:\groovy-2.4.15\bin\groovy test.groovy" timer="1m" />
Cheers
Zak
From: Chris Pretorius [mailto:chrisp at lightstoneauto.co.za] Sent: Friday, 18 May 2018 13:11 To: Beck, Zak <zak.beck at accenture.com<mailto:zak.beck at accenture.com>>; xymon at xymon.com<mailto:xymon at xymon.com> Subject: [External] RE: custom scripts for windows servers
Hi
Our dev decided to create a groovy script since the tests it needs to do is complex.
He created a small test script which I copied to the ext folder: test.groovy def file1 = new File('C:/Program Files (x86)/BBWin/tmp/test.txt') file1.write 'Test message'
Added to externals block:
<externals> <setting name="timer" value="3m" /> <setting name="logstimer" value="60s" /> <load value="groovy test.groovy" timer="1m" /> <!-- 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>
I Also tried the full path to test.groovy. Restarted the client, I even set the log on as from Local system to Administrator.
The file "test.txt" is not created. There's no errors logged in the BBWin.log
How can I be sure BBwin is executing the script? Groovy is installed. "C:\groovy-2.4.15\bin\groovy" I am able to run the script from command prompt and the test.txt file is created.
Kind regards From: Beck, Zak <zak.beck at accenture.com<mailto:zak.beck at accenture.com>> Sent: Friday, May 4, 2018 12:37 PM To: Chris Pretorius <chrisp at lightstoneauto.co.za<mailto:chrisp at lightstoneauto.co.za>>; xymon at xymon.com<mailto:xymon at xymon.com> Subject: RE: custome scripts for windows servers
Hi Chris
BBWin or WinPSClient do not have a built in scripting language, they only support scripts that the OS already knows how to run. This will depend on what tools you have installed on your servers.
By default, Windows servers will definitely run VBScript (VBS) and most newer versions (Windows Server 2008 onwards, Windows 7 onwards) will run Powershell.
There are a number of script samples in BBWin in the externals folder and for WinPSClient, the documentation is fairly complete in this area.
Both BBWin and WinPSClient can return data from any script if that script writes a text file to the tmp folder (which is a subfolder of BBWin or WinPSClient).
Below is a Powershell example of testing DNS lookup for google.com - this is not necessarily the best way to test DNS, it is provided as a simple example of an external script.
If this were saved as "google-dns.ps1", and a SHA1 hash of the file generated, it can be used with the WinPSClient by adding a line like this to client-local.cfg - you do not need to replace the {script} with anything, the client will do that:
external:everyscan:sync:http://<xymon server>/PS_Updates/google-dns.ps1|SHA1|<sha1 value>|powershell.exe|-executionpolicy remotesigned -noprofile -file "{script}"
Cheers
Zak
param( [string] $TestName = 'googledns' )
$scriptdir = split-path -parent $MyInvocation.MyCommand.Definition $datadir = join-path $scriptdir '..\tmp' -Resolve
$groupColour = 'green'
try { $results = [System.Net.DNS]::GetHostAddresses('www.google.com') } catch { $groupColour = 'red' $message = "Error performing DNS query: $_" }
if ($groupColour -eq 'green')
{
$ips = $results | foreach { $_.IPAddressToString }
$message = "Result of DNS query:rn"
$message += ($ips -join "rn")
}
$timeFormatted = Get-Date -Format 'dd-MMM-yyyy HH:mm' $output = ` @" $($groupColour)+10m $TestName as at $timeFormatted (updated approx every 5 minutes)
$message
<br><p>Information from $($Env:computername)</p>
"@
$dataFile = Join-Path $datadir $TestName $output | Set-Content $datafile
From: Xymon [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Chris Pretorius Sent: Friday, 4 May 2018 10:32 To: xymon at xymon.com<mailto:xymon at xymon.com> Subject: [External] [Xymon] custome scripts for windows servers
Good day all
Can someone please send links to example custom scripts for windows server.
We are mostly a Linux shop but have a few Windows servers. They are monitored on xymon and it is currently a mix of BBwin and winpsclients.
My google skills has let me down as I could not find examples except for bash script examples..
Does BBwin or winpsclient support groovy script or can I only use VBscript?
Kind regards
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Chris Pretorius
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0872367740
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Awesome, thanx. Will give it a try.
From: Lerch, Alfred <alfred_lerch at mentor.com> Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2018 10:15 AM To: Beck, Zak <zak.beck at accenture.com>; Chris Pretorius <chrisp at lightstoneauto.co.za>; xymon at xymon.com Subject: RE: custom scripts for windows servers
Hi,
I found the hard way that BBwin is running in a 32.bit context and that bbwin.cfg requires 8.3 file notation and a full path for the script as well You might try <load value=" C:\groovy~1\bin\groovy C:\Progra~2\BBwin\ext\test.groovy" timer="1m" />
Use dir /x to find out how the ~ strings are on your system
Regards
Alfred
PS: I'd rather recommend WinPSClient and PowerShell - well supported and 64-bit proof :)
From: Xymon [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Beck, Zak Sent: Freitag, 18. Mai 2018 14:57 To: Chris Pretorius <chrisp at lightstoneauto.co.za<mailto:chrisp at lightstoneauto.co.za>>; xymon at xymon.com<mailto:xymon at xymon.com> Subject: Re: [Xymon] custom scripts for windows servers
Hi
I'm no BBWin expert - have you tried supplying the full path to the groovy executable?
e.g.
<load value=" C:\groovy-2.4.15\bin\groovy test.groovy" timer="1m" />
Cheers
Zak
From: Chris Pretorius [mailto:chrisp at lightstoneauto.co.za] Sent: Friday, 18 May 2018 13:11 To: Beck, Zak <zak.beck at accenture.com<mailto:zak.beck at accenture.com>>; xymon at xymon.com<mailto:xymon at xymon.com> Subject: [External] RE: custom scripts for windows servers
Hi
Our dev decided to create a groovy script since the tests it needs to do is complex.
He created a small test script which I copied to the ext folder: test.groovy def file1 = new File('C:/Program Files (x86)/BBWin/tmp/test.txt') file1.write 'Test message'
Added to externals block:
<externals> <setting name="timer" value="3m" /> <setting name="logstimer" value="60s" /> <load value="groovy test.groovy" timer="1m" /> <!-- 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>
I Also tried the full path to test.groovy. Restarted the client, I even set the log on as from Local system to Administrator.
The file "test.txt" is not created. There's no errors logged in the BBWin.log
How can I be sure BBwin is executing the script? Groovy is installed. "C:\groovy-2.4.15\bin\groovy" I am able to run the script from command prompt and the test.txt file is created.
Kind regards From: Beck, Zak <zak.beck at accenture.com<mailto:zak.beck at accenture.com>> Sent: Friday, May 4, 2018 12:37 PM To: Chris Pretorius <chrisp at lightstoneauto.co.za<mailto:chrisp at lightstoneauto.co.za>>; xymon at xymon.com<mailto:xymon at xymon.com> Subject: RE: custome scripts for windows servers
Hi Chris
BBWin or WinPSClient do not have a built in scripting language, they only support scripts that the OS already knows how to run. This will depend on what tools you have installed on your servers.
By default, Windows servers will definitely run VBScript (VBS) and most newer versions (Windows Server 2008 onwards, Windows 7 onwards) will run Powershell.
There are a number of script samples in BBWin in the externals folder and for WinPSClient, the documentation is fairly complete in this area.
Both BBWin and WinPSClient can return data from any script if that script writes a text file to the tmp folder (which is a subfolder of BBWin or WinPSClient).
Below is a Powershell example of testing DNS lookup for google.com - this is not necessarily the best way to test DNS, it is provided as a simple example of an external script.
If this were saved as "google-dns.ps1", and a SHA1 hash of the file generated, it can be used with the WinPSClient by adding a line like this to client-local.cfg - you do not need to replace the {script} with anything, the client will do that:
external:everyscan:sync:http://<xymon server>/PS_Updates/google-dns.ps1|SHA1|<sha1 value>|powershell.exe|-executionpolicy remotesigned -noprofile -file "{script}"
Cheers
Zak
param( [string] $TestName = 'googledns' )
$scriptdir = split-path -parent $MyInvocation.MyCommand.Definition $datadir = join-path $scriptdir '..\tmp' -Resolve
$groupColour = 'green'
try { $results = [System.Net.DNS]::GetHostAddresses('www.google.com') } catch { $groupColour = 'red' $message = "Error performing DNS query: $_" }
if ($groupColour -eq 'green')
{
$ips = $results | foreach { $_.IPAddressToString }
$message = "Result of DNS query:rn"
$message += ($ips -join "rn")
}
$timeFormatted = Get-Date -Format 'dd-MMM-yyyy HH:mm' $output = ` @" $($groupColour)+10m $TestName as at $timeFormatted (updated approx every 5 minutes)
$message
<br><p>Information from $($Env:computername)</p>
"@
$dataFile = Join-Path $datadir $TestName $output | Set-Content $datafile
From: Xymon [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Chris Pretorius Sent: Friday, 4 May 2018 10:32 To: xymon at xymon.com<mailto:xymon at xymon.com> Subject: [External] [Xymon] custome scripts for windows servers
Good day all
Can someone please send links to example custom scripts for windows server.
We are mostly a Linux shop but have a few Windows servers. They are monitored on xymon and it is currently a mix of BBwin and winpsclients.
My google skills has let me down as I could not find examples except for bash script examples..
Does BBwin or winpsclient support groovy script or can I only use VBscript?
Kind regards
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Hi
Made the following changes.
C:\>dir /x Volume in drive C has no label. Volume Serial Number is A869-53E2
Directory of C:\
2018-05-04 11:13 AM <DIR> GROOVY~1.15 groovy-2.4.15 2018-05-10 11:48 AM <DIR> PROGRA~1 Program Files 2018-05-17 12:11 PM <DIR> PROGRA~2 Program Files (x86)
<externals> <setting name="timer" value="3m" /> <setting name="logstimer" value="60s" /> <load value="C:\GROOVY~1.15\bin\groovy C:\PROGRA~2\BBWin\ext\test.groovy" timer="1m" /> </externals>
I also changed the test groovy script. test.groovy def file1 = new File('C:\PROGRA~2\BBWin\tmp\test.txt') file1.write 'Test message'
The test.txt file is not created
BBWin logs: 2018/05/24 10:44:49 [DEBUG]: [cpu]: initialization cpu agent started 2018/05/24 10:44:49 [DEBUG]: [cpu]: initialization cpu agent ended 2018/05/24 10:44:49 [DEBUG]: [disk]: init disk agent AgentDisk::Init 2018/05/24 10:44:49 [INFO]: [filesystem]: failed to save logfetch status C:\Program Files (x86)\BBWin\tmp\logfetch.status : The system cannot find the file specified. 2018/05/24 10:44:49 [DEBUG]: [msgs]: Begin Msgs Initialization AgentMsgs::Init 2018/05/24 10:44:49 [DEBUG]: [msgs]: Ending Msgs Initialization 2018/05/24 10:44:49 [DEBUG]: Starting hobbit client agent. 2018/05/24 10:44:49 [DEBUG]: [externals]: starting external 'C:\GROOVY~1.15\bin\groovy C:\PROGRA~2\BBWin\ext\test.groovy' 2018/05/24 10:44:49 [INFO]: bbwin is started.
Regards
From: Lerch, Alfred <alfred_lerch at mentor.com> Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2018 10:15 AM To: Beck, Zak <zak.beck at accenture.com>; Chris Pretorius <chrisp at lightstoneauto.co.za>; xymon at xymon.com Subject: RE: custom scripts for windows servers
Hi,
I found the hard way that BBwin is running in a 32.bit context and that bbwin.cfg requires 8.3 file notation and a full path for the script as well You might try <load value=" C:\groovy~1\bin\groovy C:\Progra~2\BBwin\ext\test.groovy" timer="1m" />
Use dir /x to find out how the ~ strings are on your system
Regards
Alfred
PS: I'd rather recommend WinPSClient and PowerShell - well supported and 64-bit proof :)
From: Xymon [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Beck, Zak Sent: Freitag, 18. Mai 2018 14:57 To: Chris Pretorius <chrisp at lightstoneauto.co.za<mailto:chrisp at lightstoneauto.co.za>>; xymon at xymon.com<mailto:xymon at xymon.com> Subject: Re: [Xymon] custom scripts for windows servers
Hi
I'm no BBWin expert - have you tried supplying the full path to the groovy executable?
e.g.
<load value=" C:\groovy-2.4.15\bin\groovy test.groovy" timer="1m" />
Cheers
Zak
From: Chris Pretorius [mailto:chrisp at lightstoneauto.co.za] Sent: Friday, 18 May 2018 13:11 To: Beck, Zak <zak.beck at accenture.com<mailto:zak.beck at accenture.com>>; xymon at xymon.com<mailto:xymon at xymon.com> Subject: [External] RE: custom scripts for windows servers
Hi
Our dev decided to create a groovy script since the tests it needs to do is complex.
He created a small test script which I copied to the ext folder: test.groovy def file1 = new File('C:/Program Files (x86)/BBWin/tmp/test.txt') file1.write 'Test message'
Added to externals block:
<externals> <setting name="timer" value="3m" /> <setting name="logstimer" value="60s" /> <load value="groovy test.groovy" timer="1m" /> <!-- 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>
I Also tried the full path to test.groovy. Restarted the client, I even set the log on as from Local system to Administrator.
The file "test.txt" is not created. There's no errors logged in the BBWin.log
How can I be sure BBwin is executing the script? Groovy is installed. "C:\groovy-2.4.15\bin\groovy" I am able to run the script from command prompt and the test.txt file is created.
Kind regards From: Beck, Zak <zak.beck at accenture.com<mailto:zak.beck at accenture.com>> Sent: Friday, May 4, 2018 12:37 PM To: Chris Pretorius <chrisp at lightstoneauto.co.za<mailto:chrisp at lightstoneauto.co.za>>; xymon at xymon.com<mailto:xymon at xymon.com> Subject: RE: custome scripts for windows servers
Hi Chris
BBWin or WinPSClient do not have a built in scripting language, they only support scripts that the OS already knows how to run. This will depend on what tools you have installed on your servers.
By default, Windows servers will definitely run VBScript (VBS) and most newer versions (Windows Server 2008 onwards, Windows 7 onwards) will run Powershell.
There are a number of script samples in BBWin in the externals folder and for WinPSClient, the documentation is fairly complete in this area.
Both BBWin and WinPSClient can return data from any script if that script writes a text file to the tmp folder (which is a subfolder of BBWin or WinPSClient).
Below is a Powershell example of testing DNS lookup for google.com - this is not necessarily the best way to test DNS, it is provided as a simple example of an external script.
If this were saved as "google-dns.ps1", and a SHA1 hash of the file generated, it can be used with the WinPSClient by adding a line like this to client-local.cfg - you do not need to replace the {script} with anything, the client will do that:
external:everyscan:sync:http://<xymon server>/PS_Updates/google-dns.ps1|SHA1|<sha1 value>|powershell.exe|-executionpolicy remotesigned -noprofile -file "{script}"
Cheers
Zak
param( [string] $TestName = 'googledns' )
$scriptdir = split-path -parent $MyInvocation.MyCommand.Definition $datadir = join-path $scriptdir '..\tmp' -Resolve
$groupColour = 'green'
try { $results = [System.Net.DNS]::GetHostAddresses('www.google.com') } catch { $groupColour = 'red' $message = "Error performing DNS query: $_" }
if ($groupColour -eq 'green')
{
$ips = $results | foreach { $_.IPAddressToString }
$message = "Result of DNS query:rn"
$message += ($ips -join "rn")
}
$timeFormatted = Get-Date -Format 'dd-MMM-yyyy HH:mm' $output = ` @" $($groupColour)+10m $TestName as at $timeFormatted (updated approx every 5 minutes)
$message
<br><p>Information from $($Env:computername)</p>
"@
$dataFile = Join-Path $datadir $TestName $output | Set-Content $datafile
From: Xymon [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Chris Pretorius Sent: Friday, 4 May 2018 10:32 To: xymon at xymon.com<mailto:xymon at xymon.com> Subject: [External] [Xymon] custome scripts for windows servers
Good day all
Can someone please send links to example custom scripts for windows server.
We are mostly a Linux shop but have a few Windows servers. They are monitored on xymon and it is currently a mix of BBwin and winpsclients.
My google skills has let me down as I could not find examples except for bash script examples..
Does BBwin or winpsclient support groovy script or can I only use VBscript?
Kind regards
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Chris Pretorius
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0872367740
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Test.groovy isn't an 8.3 filename but that doesn't seem to matter. If bbwin had a problem, I would expect something in the log about file not found -- similar to the logfetch message.
Have you checked Task Manager to seee if there a orphanned groovy processes? The bbwin.log says it started groovy so maybe it's not fully initializing, can't open the groovy script, etc. I know you said you can manually run the script so maybe the user/context bbwin runs under doesn't have permissions to the groovy executable.
Also, may create a simple "hello world" BAT or CMD file and add it as an external test. This should help prove bbwin can run externals and hopefully better narrow the problem.
On Thu, May 24, 2018, 4:53 AM Chris Pretorius <chrisp at lightstoneauto.co.za> wrote:
Hi
Made the following changes.
C:\>dir /x
Volume in drive C has no label.
Volume Serial Number is A869-53E2
Directory of C:\
2018-05-04 11:13 AM <DIR> GROOVY~1.15 groovy-2.4.15
2018-05-10 11:48 AM <DIR> PROGRA~1 Program Files
2018-05-17 12:11 PM <DIR> PROGRA~2 Program Files (x86)
<externals>
<setting name="timer" value="3m" /> <setting name="logstimer" value="60s" /> <load value="C:\GROOVY~1.15\bin\groovyC:\PROGRA~2\BBWin\ext\test.groovy" timer="1m" />
</externals>
I also changed the test groovy script. test.groovy
def file1 = new File('C:\PROGRA~2\BBWin\tmp\test.txt')
file1.write 'Test message'
The test.txt file is not created
BBWin logs:
2018/05/24 10:44:49 [DEBUG]: [cpu]: initialization cpu agent started
2018/05/24 10:44:49 [DEBUG]: [cpu]: initialization cpu agent ended
2018/05/24 10:44:49 [DEBUG]: [disk]: init disk agent AgentDisk::Init
2018/05/24 10:44:49 [INFO]: [filesystem]: failed to save logfetch status C:\Program Files (x86)\BBWin\tmp\logfetch.status : The system cannot find the file specified.
2018/05/24 10:44:49 [DEBUG]: [msgs]: Begin Msgs Initialization AgentMsgs::Init
2018/05/24 10:44:49 [DEBUG]: [msgs]: Ending Msgs Initialization
2018/05/24 10:44:49 [DEBUG]: Starting hobbit client agent.
2018/05/24 10:44:49 [DEBUG]: [externals]: starting external 'C:\GROOVY~1.15\bin\groovy C:\PROGRA~2\BBWin\ext\test.groovy'
2018/05/24 10:44:49 [INFO]: bbwin is started.
Regards
*From:* Lerch, Alfred <alfred_lerch at mentor.com> *Sent:* Thursday, May 24, 2018 10:15 AM *To:* Beck, Zak <zak.beck at accenture.com>; Chris Pretorius < chrisp at lightstoneauto.co.za>; xymon at xymon.com *Subject:* RE: custom scripts for windows servers
Hi,
I found the hard way that BBwin is running in a 32.bit context and that bbwin.cfg requires 8.3 file notation and a full path for the script as well
You might try
<load value=" C:\groovy~1\bin\groovy C:\Progra~2\BBwin\ext\test.groovy" timer="1m" />
Use dir /x to find out how the ~ strings are on your system
Regards
Alfred
PS: I’d rather recommend WinPSClient and PowerShell – well supported and 64-bit proof J
*From:* Xymon [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com <xymon-bounces at xymon.com>] *On Behalf Of *Beck, Zak *Sent:* Freitag, 18. Mai 2018 14:57 *To:* Chris Pretorius <chrisp at lightstoneauto.co.za>; xymon at xymon.com *Subject:* Re: [Xymon] custom scripts for windows servers
Hi
I’m no BBWin expert – have you tried supplying the full path to the groovy executable?
e.g.
<load value=" C:\groovy-2.4.15\bin\groovy test.groovy" timer="1m" />
Cheers
Zak
*From:* Chris Pretorius [mailto:chrisp at lightstoneauto.co.za <chrisp at lightstoneauto.co.za>] *Sent:* Friday, 18 May 2018 13:11 *To:* Beck, Zak <zak.beck at accenture.com>; xymon at xymon.com *Subject:* [External] RE: custom scripts for windows servers
Hi
Our dev decided to create a groovy script since the tests it needs to do is complex.
He created a small test script which I copied to the ext folder:
test.groovy
def file1 = new File('C:/Program Files (x86)/BBWin/tmp/test.txt')
file1.write 'Test message'
Added to externals block:
<externals>
<setting name="timer" value="3m" /> <setting name="logstimer" value="60s" /> <load value="groovy test.groovy" timer="1m" /> <!-- 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>
I Also tried the full path to test.groovy.
Restarted the client, I even set the log on as from Local system to Administrator.
The file “test.txt” is not created.
There’s no errors logged in the BBWin.log
How can I be sure BBwin is executing the script?
Groovy is installed. “C:\groovy-2.4.15\bin\groovy”
I am able to run the script from command prompt and the test.txt file is created.
Kind regards
*From:* Beck, Zak <zak.beck at accenture.com> *Sent:* Friday, May 4, 2018 12:37 PM *To:* Chris Pretorius <chrisp at lightstoneauto.co.za>; xymon at xymon.com *Subject:* RE: custome scripts for windows servers
Hi Chris
BBWin or WinPSClient do not have a built in scripting language, they only support scripts that the OS already knows how to run. This will depend on what tools you have installed on your servers.
By default, Windows servers will definitely run VBScript (VBS) and most newer versions (Windows Server 2008 onwards, Windows 7 onwards) will run Powershell.
There are a number of script samples in BBWin in the externals folder and for WinPSClient, the documentation is fairly complete in this area.
Both BBWin and WinPSClient can return data from any script if that script writes a text file to the tmp folder (which is a subfolder of BBWin or WinPSClient).
Below is a Powershell example of testing DNS lookup for google.com – this is not necessarily the best way to test DNS, it is provided as a simple example of an external script.
If this were saved as “google-dns.ps1”, and a SHA1 hash of the file generated, it can be used with the WinPSClient by adding a line like this to client-local.cfg – you do not need to replace the {script} with anything, the client will do that:
external:everyscan:sync:http://<xymon server>/PS_Updates/google-dns.ps1|SHA1|<sha1 value>|powershell.exe|-executionpolicy remotesigned -noprofile -file "{script}"
Cheers
Zak
param(
[string] $TestName = 'googledns' )$scriptdir = split-path -parent $MyInvocation.MyCommand.Definition
$datadir = join-path $scriptdir '..\tmp' -Resolve
$groupColour = 'green'
try
{
$results = [System.Net.DNS]::GetHostAddresses('www.google.com')}
catch
{
$groupColour = 'red' $message = "Error performing DNS query: $_"}
if ($groupColour -eq 'green')
{
$ips = $results | foreach { $_.IPAddressToString } $message = "Result of DNS query:`r`n" $message += ($ips -join "`r`n")}
$timeFormatted = Get-Date -Format 'dd-MMM-yyyy HH:mm'
$output = `
@"
$($groupColour)+10m $TestName as at $timeFormatted (updated approx every 5 minutes)
DNS query for www.google.com <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.google.com&d=DwMFAg&c=eIGjsITfXP_y-DLLX0uEHXJvU8nOHrUK8IrwNKOtkVU&r=S-aLwpx-PHBTBMIG_c2JczRC0SfuZCmsiH9Iams25FI&m=ehH4bK0KVKjrTOWMKx0blROIXhuYtKDkAY-5Dx33TAY&s=MQyttX_Krv5ePOOct2Oj-hvX5UZfhfvJCIir9vTbnEo&e=>
$message
<br><p>Information from $($Env:computername)</p>
"@
$dataFile = Join-Path $datadir $TestName
$output | Set-Content $datafile
*From:* Xymon [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com <xymon-bounces at xymon.com>] *On Behalf Of *Chris Pretorius *Sent:* Friday, 4 May 2018 10:32 *To:* xymon at xymon.com *Subject:* [External] [Xymon] custome scripts for windows servers
Good day all
Can someone please send links to example custom scripts for windows server.
We are mostly a Linux shop but have a few Windows servers. They are monitored on xymon and it is currently a mix of BBwin and winpsclients.
My google skills has let me down as I could not find examples except for bash script examples..
Does BBwin or winpsclient support groovy script or can I only use VBscript?
Kind regards
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*Chris Pretorius*
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0872367740
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chrisp at lightstone.co.za
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Good day
I gave up with BBWin and ended installing xymonpsclient.
It configured and reporting to the xymon server.
How do I configure XymonPSClient to run my test script? Can you please send links with examples so I can see where I went wrong.
Regards
From: Robert Herron <robert.herron at gmail.com> Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2018 11:52 AM To: Chris Pretorius <chrisp at lightstoneauto.co.za> Cc: Lerch, Alfred <alfred_lerch at mentor.com>; Beck, Zak <zak.beck at accenture.com>; xymon at xymon.com Subject: Re: [Xymon] custom scripts for windows servers
Test.groovy isn't an 8.3 filename but that doesn't seem to matter. If bbwin had a problem, I would expect something in the log about file not found -- similar to the logfetch message.
Have you checked Task Manager to seee if there a orphanned groovy processes? The bbwin.log says it started groovy so maybe it's not fully initializing, can't open the groovy script, etc. I know you said you can manually run the script so maybe the user/context bbwin runs under doesn't have permissions to the groovy executable.
Also, may create a simple "hello world" BAT or CMD file and add it as an external test. This should help prove bbwin can run externals and hopefully better narrow the problem. On Thu, May 24, 2018, 4:53 AM Chris Pretorius <chrisp at lightstoneauto.co.za<mailto:chrisp at lightstoneauto.co.za>> wrote: Hi
Made the following changes.
C:\>dir /x Volume in drive C has no label. Volume Serial Number is A869-53E2
Directory of C:\
2018-05-04 11:13 AM <DIR> GROOVY~1.15 groovy-2.4.15 2018-05-10 11:48 AM <DIR> PROGRA~1 Program Files 2018-05-17 12:11 PM <DIR> PROGRA~2 Program Files (x86)
<externals> <setting name="timer" value="3m" /> <setting name="logstimer" value="60s" /> <load value="C:\GROOVY~1.15\bin\groovy C:\PROGRA~2\BBWin\ext\test.groovy" timer="1m" /> </externals>
I also changed the test groovy script. test.groovy def file1 = new File('C:\PROGRA~2\BBWin\tmp\test.txt') file1.write 'Test message'
The test.txt file is not created
BBWin logs: 2018/05/24 10:44:49 [DEBUG]: [cpu]: initialization cpu agent started 2018/05/24 10:44:49 [DEBUG]: [cpu]: initialization cpu agent ended 2018/05/24 10:44:49 [DEBUG]: [disk]: init disk agent AgentDisk::Init 2018/05/24 10:44:49 [INFO]: [filesystem]: failed to save logfetch status C:\Program Files (x86)\BBWin\tmp\logfetch.status : The system cannot find the file specified. 2018/05/24 10:44:49 [DEBUG]: [msgs]: Begin Msgs Initialization AgentMsgs::Init 2018/05/24 10:44:49 [DEBUG]: [msgs]: Ending Msgs Initialization 2018/05/24 10:44:49 [DEBUG]: Starting hobbit client agent. 2018/05/24 10:44:49 [DEBUG]: [externals]: starting external 'C:\GROOVY~1.15\bin\groovy C:\PROGRA~2\BBWin\ext\test.groovy' 2018/05/24 10:44:49 [INFO]: bbwin is started.
Regards
From: Lerch, Alfred <alfred_lerch at mentor.com<mailto:alfred_lerch at mentor.com>> Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2018 10:15 AM To: Beck, Zak <zak.beck at accenture.com<mailto:zak.beck at accenture.com>>; Chris Pretorius <chrisp at lightstoneauto.co.za<mailto:chrisp at lightstoneauto.co.za>>; xymon at xymon.com<mailto:xymon at xymon.com> Subject: RE: custom scripts for windows servers
Hi,
I found the hard way that BBwin is running in a 32.bit context and that bbwin.cfg requires 8.3 file notation and a full path for the script as well You might try <load value=" C:\groovy~1\bin\groovy C:\Progra~2\BBwin\ext\test.groovy" timer="1m" />
Use dir /x to find out how the ~ strings are on your system
Regards
Alfred
PS: I’d rather recommend WinPSClient and PowerShell – well supported and 64-bit proof ☺
From: Xymon [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Beck, Zak Sent: Freitag, 18. Mai 2018 14:57 To: Chris Pretorius <chrisp at lightstoneauto.co.za<mailto:chrisp at lightstoneauto.co.za>>; xymon at xymon.com<mailto:xymon at xymon.com> Subject: Re: [Xymon] custom scripts for windows servers
Hi
I’m no BBWin expert – have you tried supplying the full path to the groovy executable?
e.g.
<load value=" C:\groovy-2.4.15\bin\groovy test.groovy" timer="1m" />
Cheers
Zak
From: Chris Pretorius [mailto:chrisp at lightstoneauto.co.za] Sent: Friday, 18 May 2018 13:11 To: Beck, Zak <zak.beck at accenture.com<mailto:zak.beck at accenture.com>>; xymon at xymon.com<mailto:xymon at xymon.com> Subject: [External] RE: custom scripts for windows servers
Hi
Our dev decided to create a groovy script since the tests it needs to do is complex.
He created a small test script which I copied to the ext folder: test.groovy def file1 = new File('C:/Program Files (x86)/BBWin/tmp/test.txt') file1.write 'Test message'
Added to externals block:
<externals> <setting name="timer" value="3m" /> <setting name="logstimer" value="60s" /> <load value="groovy test.groovy" timer="1m" /> <!-- 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>
I Also tried the full path to test.groovy. Restarted the client, I even set the log on as from Local system to Administrator.
The file “test.txt” is not created. There’s no errors logged in the BBWin.log
How can I be sure BBwin is executing the script? Groovy is installed. “C:\groovy-2.4.15\bin\groovy” I am able to run the script from command prompt and the test.txt file is created.
Kind regards From: Beck, Zak <zak.beck at accenture.com<mailto:zak.beck at accenture.com>> Sent: Friday, May 4, 2018 12:37 PM To: Chris Pretorius <chrisp at lightstoneauto.co.za<mailto:chrisp at lightstoneauto.co.za>>; xymon at xymon.com<mailto:xymon at xymon.com> Subject: RE: custome scripts for windows servers
Hi Chris
BBWin or WinPSClient do not have a built in scripting language, they only support scripts that the OS already knows how to run. This will depend on what tools you have installed on your servers.
By default, Windows servers will definitely run VBScript (VBS) and most newer versions (Windows Server 2008 onwards, Windows 7 onwards) will run Powershell.
There are a number of script samples in BBWin in the externals folder and for WinPSClient, the documentation is fairly complete in this area.
Both BBWin and WinPSClient can return data from any script if that script writes a text file to the tmp folder (which is a subfolder of BBWin or WinPSClient).
Below is a Powershell example of testing DNS lookup for google.com<http://google.com> – this is not necessarily the best way to test DNS, it is provided as a simple example of an external script.
If this were saved as “google-dns.ps1”, and a SHA1 hash of the file generated, it can be used with the WinPSClient by adding a line like this to client-local.cfg – you do not need to replace the {script} with anything, the client will do that:
external:everyscan:sync:http://<xymon server>/PS_Updates/google-dns.ps1|SHA1|<sha1 value>|powershell.exe|-executionpolicy remotesigned -noprofile -file "{script}"
Cheers
Zak
param( [string] $TestName = 'googledns' )
$scriptdir = split-path -parent $MyInvocation.MyCommand.Definition $datadir = join-path $scriptdir '..\tmp' -Resolve
$groupColour = 'green'
try { $results = [System.Net.DNS]::GetHostAddresses('www.google.com<http://www.google.com>') } catch { $groupColour = 'red' $message = "Error performing DNS query: $_" }
if ($groupColour -eq 'green')
{
$ips = $results | foreach { $_.IPAddressToString }
$message = "Result of DNS query:rn"
$message += ($ips -join "rn")
}
$timeFormatted = Get-Date -Format 'dd-MMM-yyyy HH:mm' $output = ` @" $($groupColour)+10m $TestName as at $timeFormatted (updated approx every 5 minutes)
$message
<br><p>Information from $($Env:computername)</p>
"@
$dataFile = Join-Path $datadir $TestName $output | Set-Content $datafile
From: Xymon [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Chris Pretorius Sent: Friday, 4 May 2018 10:32 To: xymon at xymon.com<mailto:xymon at xymon.com> Subject: [External] [Xymon] custome scripts for windows servers
Good day all
Can someone please send links to example custom scripts for windows server.
We are mostly a Linux shop but have a few Windows servers. They are monitored on xymon and it is currently a mix of BBwin and winpsclients.
My google skills has let me down as I could not find examples except for bash script examples..
Does BBwin or winpsclient support groovy script or can I only use VBscript?
Kind regards
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Hi Chris
There’s a couple of sections on this with examples in the documentation (https://sourceforge.net/p/xymon/code/HEAD/tree/sandbox/WinPSClient/, XymonPSClient.doc). Could you take a look and then show us what you have configured?
Thanks
Zak
From: Chris Pretorius [mailto:chrisp at lightstoneauto.co.za] Sent: Thursday, 7 June 2018 13:14 To: xymon at xymon.com Cc: Lerch, Alfred <alfred_lerch at mentor.com>; Beck, Zak <zak.beck at accenture.com>; Robert Herron <robert.herron at gmail.com> Subject: [External] RE: [Xymon] custom scripts for windows servers
Good day
I gave up with BBWin and ended installing xymonpsclient.
It configured and reporting to the xymon server.
How do I configure XymonPSClient to run my test script? Can you please send links with examples so I can see where I went wrong.
Regards
From: Robert Herron <robert.herron at gmail.com<mailto:robert.herron at gmail.com>> Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2018 11:52 AM To: Chris Pretorius <chrisp at lightstoneauto.co.za<mailto:chrisp at lightstoneauto.co.za>> Cc: Lerch, Alfred <alfred_lerch at mentor.com<mailto:alfred_lerch at mentor.com>>; Beck, Zak <zak.beck at accenture.com<mailto:zak.beck at accenture.com>>; xymon at xymon.com<mailto:xymon at xymon.com> Subject: Re: [Xymon] custom scripts for windows servers
Test.groovy isn't an 8.3 filename but that doesn't seem to matter. If bbwin had a problem, I would expect something in the log about file not found -- similar to the logfetch message.
Have you checked Task Manager to seee if there a orphanned groovy processes? The bbwin.log says it started groovy so maybe it's not fully initializing, can't open the groovy script, etc. I know you said you can manually run the script so maybe the user/context bbwin runs under doesn't have permissions to the groovy executable.
Also, may create a simple "hello world" BAT or CMD file and add it as an external test. This should help prove bbwin can run externals and hopefully better narrow the problem. On Thu, May 24, 2018, 4:53 AM Chris Pretorius <chrisp at lightstoneauto.co.za<mailto:chrisp at lightstoneauto.co.za>> wrote: Hi
Made the following changes.
C:\>dir /x Volume in drive C has no label. Volume Serial Number is A869-53E2
Directory of C:\
2018-05-04 11:13 AM <DIR> GROOVY~1.15 groovy-2.4.15 2018-05-10 11:48 AM <DIR> PROGRA~1 Program Files 2018-05-17 12:11 PM <DIR> PROGRA~2 Program Files (x86)
<externals> <setting name="timer" value="3m" /> <setting name="logstimer" value="60s" /> <load value="C:\GROOVY~1.15\bin\groovy C:\PROGRA~2\BBWin\ext\test.groovy" timer="1m" /> </externals>
I also changed the test groovy script. test.groovy def file1 = new File('C:\PROGRA~2\BBWin\tmp\test.txt') file1.write 'Test message'
The test.txt file is not created
BBWin logs: 2018/05/24 10:44:49 [DEBUG]: [cpu]: initialization cpu agent started 2018/05/24 10:44:49 [DEBUG]: [cpu]: initialization cpu agent ended 2018/05/24 10:44:49 [DEBUG]: [disk]: init disk agent AgentDisk::Init 2018/05/24 10:44:49 [INFO]: [filesystem]: failed to save logfetch status C:\Program Files (x86)\BBWin\tmp\logfetch.status : The system cannot find the file specified. 2018/05/24 10:44:49 [DEBUG]: [msgs]: Begin Msgs Initialization AgentMsgs::Init 2018/05/24 10:44:49 [DEBUG]: [msgs]: Ending Msgs Initialization 2018/05/24 10:44:49 [DEBUG]: Starting hobbit client agent. 2018/05/24 10:44:49 [DEBUG]: [externals]: starting external 'C:\GROOVY~1.15\bin\groovy C:\PROGRA~2\BBWin\ext\test.groovy' 2018/05/24 10:44:49 [INFO]: bbwin is started.
Regards
From: Lerch, Alfred <alfred_lerch at mentor.com<mailto:alfred_lerch at mentor.com>> Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2018 10:15 AM To: Beck, Zak <zak.beck at accenture.com<mailto:zak.beck at accenture.com>>; Chris Pretorius <chrisp at lightstoneauto.co.za<mailto:chrisp at lightstoneauto.co.za>>; xymon at xymon.com<mailto:xymon at xymon.com> Subject: RE: custom scripts for windows servers
Hi,
I found the hard way that BBwin is running in a 32.bit context and that bbwin.cfg requires 8.3 file notation and a full path for the script as well You might try <load value=" C:\groovy~1\bin\groovy C:\Progra~2\BBwin\ext\test.groovy" timer="1m" />
Use dir /x to find out how the ~ strings are on your system
Regards
Alfred
PS: I’d rather recommend WinPSClient and PowerShell – well supported and 64-bit proof ☺
From: Xymon [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Beck, Zak Sent: Freitag, 18. Mai 2018 14:57 To: Chris Pretorius <chrisp at lightstoneauto.co.za<mailto:chrisp at lightstoneauto.co.za>>; xymon at xymon.com<mailto:xymon at xymon.com> Subject: Re: [Xymon] custom scripts for windows servers
Hi
I’m no BBWin expert – have you tried supplying the full path to the groovy executable?
e.g.
<load value=" C:\groovy-2.4.15\bin\groovy test.groovy" timer="1m" />
Cheers
Zak
From: Chris Pretorius [mailto:chrisp at lightstoneauto.co.za] Sent: Friday, 18 May 2018 13:11 To: Beck, Zak <zak.beck at accenture.com<mailto:zak.beck at accenture.com>>; xymon at xymon.com<mailto:xymon at xymon.com> Subject: [External] RE: custom scripts for windows servers
Hi
Our dev decided to create a groovy script since the tests it needs to do is complex.
He created a small test script which I copied to the ext folder: test.groovy def file1 = new File('C:/Program Files (x86)/BBWin/tmp/test.txt') file1.write 'Test message'
Added to externals block:
<externals> <setting name="timer" value="3m" /> <setting name="logstimer" value="60s" /> <load value="groovy test.groovy" timer="1m" /> <!-- 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>
I Also tried the full path to test.groovy. Restarted the client, I even set the log on as from Local system to Administrator.
The file “test.txt” is not created. There’s no errors logged in the BBWin.log
How can I be sure BBwin is executing the script? Groovy is installed. “C:\groovy-2.4.15\bin\groovy” I am able to run the script from command prompt and the test.txt file is created.
Kind regards From: Beck, Zak <zak.beck at accenture.com<mailto:zak.beck at accenture.com>> Sent: Friday, May 4, 2018 12:37 PM To: Chris Pretorius <chrisp at lightstoneauto.co.za<mailto:chrisp at lightstoneauto.co.za>>; xymon at xymon.com<mailto:xymon at xymon.com> Subject: RE: custome scripts for windows servers
Hi Chris
BBWin or WinPSClient do not have a built in scripting language, they only support scripts that the OS already knows how to run. This will depend on what tools you have installed on your servers.
By default, Windows servers will definitely run VBScript (VBS) and most newer versions (Windows Server 2008 onwards, Windows 7 onwards) will run Powershell.
There are a number of script samples in BBWin in the externals folder and for WinPSClient, the documentation is fairly complete in this area.
Both BBWin and WinPSClient can return data from any script if that script writes a text file to the tmp folder (which is a subfolder of BBWin or WinPSClient).
Below is a Powershell example of testing DNS lookup for google.com<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__google.com&d=DwMGaQ&c=eIGjsITfXP_y-DLLX0uEHXJvU8nOHrUK8IrwNKOtkVU&r=S-aLwpx-PHBTBMIG_c2JczRC0SfuZCmsiH9Iams25FI&m=9EnjlE3SqvvjaWqH6OgBdXOFtgfd6IaS5xr1J4qIfJM&s=-390mJ2uQ4ZpDhAf7A0dhaPEv8x6KupTpOoc7XwQWp0&e=> – this is not necessarily the best way to test DNS, it is provided as a simple example of an external script.
If this were saved as “google-dns.ps1”, and a SHA1 hash of the file generated, it can be used with the WinPSClient by adding a line like this to client-local.cfg – you do not need to replace the {script} with anything, the client will do that:
external:everyscan:sync:http://<xymon server>/PS_Updates/google-dns.ps1|SHA1|<sha1 value>|powershell.exe|-executionpolicy remotesigned -noprofile -file "{script}"
Cheers
Zak
param( [string] $TestName = 'googledns' )
$scriptdir = split-path -parent $MyInvocation.MyCommand.Definition $datadir = join-path $scriptdir '..\tmp' -Resolve
$groupColour = 'green'
try { $results = [System.Net.DNS]::GetHostAddresses('www.google.com<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.google.com&d=DwMGaQ&c=eIGjsITfXP_y-DLLX0uEHXJvU8nOHrUK8IrwNKOtkVU&r=S-aLwpx-PHBTBMIG_c2JczRC0SfuZCmsiH9Iams25FI&m=9EnjlE3SqvvjaWqH6OgBdXOFtgfd6IaS5xr1J4qIfJM&s=pKL3_aRmNrvMmn-mmHg41R92k10htJKCQH9MIGAMj7Q&e=>') } catch { $groupColour = 'red' $message = "Error performing DNS query: $_" }
if ($groupColour -eq 'green')
{
$ips = $results | foreach { $_.IPAddressToString }
$message = "Result of DNS query:rn"
$message += ($ips -join "rn")
}
$timeFormatted = Get-Date -Format 'dd-MMM-yyyy HH:mm' $output = ` @" $($groupColour)+10m $TestName as at $timeFormatted (updated approx every 5 minutes)
$message
<br><p>Information from $($Env:computername)</p>
"@
$dataFile = Join-Path $datadir $TestName $output | Set-Content $datafile
From: Xymon [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Chris Pretorius Sent: Friday, 4 May 2018 10:32 To: xymon at xymon.com<mailto:xymon at xymon.com> Subject: [External] [Xymon] custome scripts for windows servers
Good day all
Can someone please send links to example custom scripts for windows server.
We are mostly a Linux shop but have a few Windows servers. They are monitored on xymon and it is currently a mix of BBwin and winpsclients.
My google skills has let me down as I could not find examples except for bash script examples..
Does BBwin or winpsclient support groovy script or can I only use VBscript?
Kind regards
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What is loglevel set to in the bbwin section of bbwin.cfg? The documentation says the default is 0 for no log. 1 = errors, 2 = warnings, 3 = info, 4 = debug.
<configuration> <bbwin> <setting name="loglevel" value="3"> <setting name="logpath" value="c:\program files\bbwin\logs\bbwin.log" ... </bbwin> ... </configuration>
On May 18, 2018 8:26 AM, "Chris Pretorius" <chrisp at lightstoneauto.co.za> wrote:
Hi
Our dev decided to create a groovy script since the tests it needs to do is complex.
He created a small test script which I copied to the ext folder:
test.groovy
def file1 = new File('C:/Program Files (x86)/BBWin/tmp/test.txt')
file1.write 'Test message'
Added to externals block:
<externals>
<setting name="timer" value="3m" />
<setting name="logstimer" value="60s" />
<load value="groovy test.groovy" timer="1m" />
<!-- 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>
I Also tried the full path to test.groovy.
Restarted the client, I even set the log on as from Local system to Administrator.
The file “test.txt” is not created.
There’s no errors logged in the BBWin.log
How can I be sure BBwin is executing the script?
Groovy is installed. “C:\groovy-2.4.15\bin\groovy”
I am able to run the script from command prompt and the test.txt file is created.
Kind regards
*From:* Beck, Zak <zak.beck at accenture.com> *Sent:* Friday, May 4, 2018 12:37 PM *To:* Chris Pretorius <chrisp at lightstoneauto.co.za>; xymon at xymon.com *Subject:* RE: custome scripts for windows servers
Hi Chris
BBWin or WinPSClient do not have a built in scripting language, they only support scripts that the OS already knows how to run. This will depend on what tools you have installed on your servers.
By default, Windows servers will definitely run VBScript (VBS) and most newer versions (Windows Server 2008 onwards, Windows 7 onwards) will run Powershell.
There are a number of script samples in BBWin in the externals folder and for WinPSClient, the documentation is fairly complete in this area.
Both BBWin and WinPSClient can return data from any script if that script writes a text file to the tmp folder (which is a subfolder of BBWin or WinPSClient).
Below is a Powershell example of testing DNS lookup for google.com – this is not necessarily the best way to test DNS, it is provided as a simple example of an external script.
If this were saved as “google-dns.ps1”, and a SHA1 hash of the file generated, it can be used with the WinPSClient by adding a line like this to client-local.cfg – you do not need to replace the {script} with anything, the client will do that:
external:everyscan:sync:http://<xymon server>/PS_Updates/google-dns.ps1|SHA1|<sha1 value>|powershell.exe|-executionpolicy remotesigned -noprofile -file "{script}"
Cheers
Zak
param(
[string] $TestName = 'googledns'
)$scriptdir = split-path -parent $MyInvocation.MyCommand.Definition
$datadir = join-path $scriptdir '..\tmp' -Resolve
$groupColour = 'green'
try
{
$results = [System.Net.DNS]::GetHostAddresses('www.google.com')}
catch
{
$groupColour = 'red'
$message = "Error performing DNS query: $_"}
if ($groupColour -eq 'green')
{
$ips = $results | foreach { $_.IPAddressToString }
$message = "Result of DNS query:`r`n"
$message += ($ips -join "`r`n")}
$timeFormatted = Get-Date -Format 'dd-MMM-yyyy HH:mm'
$output = `
@"
$($groupColour)+10m $TestName as at $timeFormatted (updated approx every 5 minutes)
DNS query for www.google.com
$message
<br><p>Information from $($Env:computername)</p>
"@
$dataFile = Join-Path $datadir $TestName
$output | Set-Content $datafile
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Good day all
Can someone please send links to example custom scripts for windows server.
We are mostly a Linux shop but have a few Windows servers. They are monitored on xymon and it is currently a mix of BBwin and winpsclients.
My google skills has let me down as I could not find examples except for bash script examples..
Does BBwin or winpsclient support groovy script or can I only use VBscript?
Kind regards
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Hi Robert
Thanx for your input.
I don’t have access to the server now as they are busy with critical dev work.
I will set the loglevel as soon as I get a gap.
Regards
From: Robert Herron <robert.herron at gmail.com> Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2018 11:42 PM To: Chris Pretorius <chrisp at lightstoneauto.co.za> Cc: Beck, Zak <zak.beck at accenture.com>; xymon Mailing List <xymon at xymon.com> Subject: Re: [Xymon] custom scripts for windows servers
What is loglevel set to in the bbwin section of bbwin.cfg? The documentation says the default is 0 for no log. 1 = errors, 2 = warnings, 3 = info, 4 = debug.
<configuration> <bbwin> <setting name="loglevel" value="3"> <setting name="logpath" value="c:\program files\bbwin\logs\bbwin.log" ... </bbwin> ... </configuration>
On May 18, 2018 8:26 AM, "Chris Pretorius" <chrisp at lightstoneauto.co.za<mailto:chrisp at lightstoneauto.co.za>> wrote: Hi
Our dev decided to create a groovy script since the tests it needs to do is complex.
He created a small test script which I copied to the ext folder: test.groovy def file1 = new File('C:/Program Files (x86)/BBWin/tmp/test.txt') file1.write 'Test message'
Added to externals block:
<externals> <setting name="timer" value="3m" /> <setting name="logstimer" value="60s" /> <load value="groovy test.groovy" timer="1m" /> <!-- 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>
I Also tried the full path to test.groovy. Restarted the client, I even set the log on as from Local system to Administrator.
The file “test.txt” is not created. There’s no errors logged in the BBWin.log
How can I be sure BBwin is executing the script? Groovy is installed. “C:\groovy-2.4.15\bin\groovy” I am able to run the script from command prompt and the test.txt file is created.
Kind regards From: Beck, Zak <zak.beck at accenture.com<mailto:zak.beck at accenture.com>> Sent: Friday, May 4, 2018 12:37 PM To: Chris Pretorius <chrisp at lightstoneauto.co.za<mailto:chrisp at lightstoneauto.co.za>>; xymon at xymon.com<mailto:xymon at xymon.com> Subject: RE: custome scripts for windows servers
Hi Chris
BBWin or WinPSClient do not have a built in scripting language, they only support scripts that the OS already knows how to run. This will depend on what tools you have installed on your servers.
By default, Windows servers will definitely run VBScript (VBS) and most newer versions (Windows Server 2008 onwards, Windows 7 onwards) will run Powershell.
There are a number of script samples in BBWin in the externals folder and for WinPSClient, the documentation is fairly complete in this area.
Both BBWin and WinPSClient can return data from any script if that script writes a text file to the tmp folder (which is a subfolder of BBWin or WinPSClient).
Below is a Powershell example of testing DNS lookup for google.com<http://google.com> – this is not necessarily the best way to test DNS, it is provided as a simple example of an external script.
If this were saved as “google-dns.ps1”, and a SHA1 hash of the file generated, it can be used with the WinPSClient by adding a line like this to client-local.cfg – you do not need to replace the {script} with anything, the client will do that:
external:everyscan:sync:http://<xymon server>/PS_Updates/google-dns.ps1|SHA1|<sha1 value>|powershell.exe|-executionpolicy remotesigned -noprofile -file "{script}"
Cheers
Zak
param( [string] $TestName = 'googledns' )
$scriptdir = split-path -parent $MyInvocation.MyCommand.Definition $datadir = join-path $scriptdir '..\tmp' -Resolve
$groupColour = 'green'
try { $results = [System.Net.DNS]::GetHostAddresses('www.google.com<http://www.google.com>') } catch { $groupColour = 'red' $message = "Error performing DNS query: $_" }
if ($groupColour -eq 'green')
{
$ips = $results | foreach { $_.IPAddressToString }
$message = "Result of DNS query:rn"
$message += ($ips -join "rn")
}
$timeFormatted = Get-Date -Format 'dd-MMM-yyyy HH:mm' $output = ` @" $($groupColour)+10m $TestName as at $timeFormatted (updated approx every 5 minutes)
DNS query for www.google.com<http://www.google.com>
$message
<br><p>Information from $($Env:computername)</p>
"@
$dataFile = Join-Path $datadir $TestName $output | Set-Content $datafile
From: Xymon [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Chris Pretorius Sent: Friday, 4 May 2018 10:32 To: xymon at xymon.com<mailto:xymon at xymon.com> Subject: [External] [Xymon] custome scripts for windows servers
Good day all
Can someone please send links to example custom scripts for windows server.
We are mostly a Linux shop but have a few Windows servers. They are monitored on xymon and it is currently a mix of BBwin and winpsclients.
My google skills has let me down as I could not find examples except for bash script examples..
Does BBwin or winpsclient support groovy script or can I only use VBscript?
Kind regards
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Also, do you have an externals line in the bbwin section? Do you have other external tests on this host that work?
On Fri, May 18, 2018, 8:26 AM Chris Pretorius <chrisp at lightstoneauto.co.za> wrote:
Hi
Our dev decided to create a groovy script since the tests it needs to do is complex.
He created a small test script which I copied to the ext folder:
test.groovy
def file1 = new File('C:/Program Files (x86)/BBWin/tmp/test.txt')
file1.write 'Test message'
Added to externals block:
<externals>
<setting name="timer" value="3m" /> <setting name="logstimer" value="60s" /> <load value="groovy test.groovy" timer="1m" /> <!-- 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>
I Also tried the full path to test.groovy.
Restarted the client, I even set the log on as from Local system to Administrator.
The file “test.txt” is not created.
There’s no errors logged in the BBWin.log
How can I be sure BBwin is executing the script?
Groovy is installed. “C:\groovy-2.4.15\bin\groovy”
I am able to run the script from command prompt and the test.txt file is created.
Kind regards
*From:* Beck, Zak <zak.beck at accenture.com> *Sent:* Friday, May 4, 2018 12:37 PM *To:* Chris Pretorius <chrisp at lightstoneauto.co.za>; xymon at xymon.com *Subject:* RE: custome scripts for windows servers
Hi Chris
BBWin or WinPSClient do not have a built in scripting language, they only support scripts that the OS already knows how to run. This will depend on what tools you have installed on your servers.
By default, Windows servers will definitely run VBScript (VBS) and most newer versions (Windows Server 2008 onwards, Windows 7 onwards) will run Powershell.
There are a number of script samples in BBWin in the externals folder and for WinPSClient, the documentation is fairly complete in this area.
Both BBWin and WinPSClient can return data from any script if that script writes a text file to the tmp folder (which is a subfolder of BBWin or WinPSClient).
Below is a Powershell example of testing DNS lookup for google.com – this is not necessarily the best way to test DNS, it is provided as a simple example of an external script.
If this were saved as “google-dns.ps1”, and a SHA1 hash of the file generated, it can be used with the WinPSClient by adding a line like this to client-local.cfg – you do not need to replace the {script} with anything, the client will do that:
external:everyscan:sync:http://<xymon server>/PS_Updates/google-dns.ps1|SHA1|<sha1 value>|powershell.exe|-executionpolicy remotesigned -noprofile -file "{script}"
Cheers
Zak
param(
[string] $TestName = 'googledns' )$scriptdir = split-path -parent $MyInvocation.MyCommand.Definition
$datadir = join-path $scriptdir '..\tmp' -Resolve
$groupColour = 'green'
try
{
$results = [System.Net.DNS]::GetHostAddresses('www.google.com')}
catch
{
$groupColour = 'red' $message = "Error performing DNS query: $_"}
if ($groupColour -eq 'green')
{
$ips = $results | foreach { $_.IPAddressToString } $message = "Result of DNS query:`r`n" $message += ($ips -join "`r`n")}
$timeFormatted = Get-Date -Format 'dd-MMM-yyyy HH:mm'
$output = `
@"
$($groupColour)+10m $TestName as at $timeFormatted (updated approx every 5 minutes)
DNS query for www.google.com
$message
<br><p>Information from $($Env:computername)</p>
"@
$dataFile = Join-Path $datadir $TestName
$output | Set-Content $datafile
*From:* Xymon [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com <xymon-bounces at xymon.com>] *On Behalf Of *Chris Pretorius *Sent:* Friday, 4 May 2018 10:32 *To:* xymon at xymon.com *Subject:* [External] [Xymon] custome scripts for windows servers
Good day all
Can someone please send links to example custom scripts for windows server.
We are mostly a Linux shop but have a few Windows servers. They are monitored on xymon and it is currently a mix of BBwin and winpsclients.
My google skills has let me down as I could not find examples except for bash script examples..
Does BBwin or winpsclient support groovy script or can I only use VBscript?
Kind regards
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alfred_lerch＠mentor.com
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robert.herron＠gmail.com
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