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What is BBWin ?

BBWin is an open source client for Windows working with BigBrother or Hobbit/Xymon monitoring software.
Where is Hobbit?

Where can I get BBWin ?

BBWin 0.12 is available on the sourceforge project page.

Using BBWin with Hobbit/Xymon Centralized mode

To use the centralized Hobbit/Xymon mode of BBWin, you must have the following requirement :
You should use at least BBWin 0.12 or upper.
The BBWin handle for centralized mode is included in Hobbit/Xymon since April 2008.
The BBWin central mode documentation is only included in the 4.3 branche.
The documentation is only availabe as a man page (ie: man hobbit-clients.cfg).

With Hobbit/Xymon stable release (4.2.2)

With Hobbit/Xymon snapshot release (4.3)

Configure BBWin for the centralized mode

To enable the centralized mode in BBWin 0.12, turn it on with these lines in your bbwin.cfg file : 
<!-- bbwin mode local or central -->
<setting name="mode" value="central" />
<setting name="configclass" value="win32" />

Example of hobbit-clients.cfg for Windows usage

HOST=%win.* #Your windows hosts
        LOAD 80 90 # Load threholds are in %
        DISK D 50 55 # Can be harddrive or mount points
        DISK InetPub 30 35
        MEMPHYS 90 101
        MEMSWAP 90 95
        MEMACT  90 97
        PORT "LOCAL=%([.:]80)$" state=LISTENING TEXT=http
        PROC BBWin.exe 1 1
        PROC svchost.exe 3 4
        LOG %.*  %.*error.* COLOR=yellow
        SVC MSSQLSERVER startup=automatic status=started
For more example, see the hobbit-clients.cfg man page.

FAQ

With some servers, tests like svcs, ports, uptime and who will appear in purple and the others tests are green, problem ?
The central mode send a file (Client data) with all the information into it.
The Hobbitd server trunk the file according to hobbitserver.cfg value.

So you might change it to this:
MAXMSG_DATA="5242880"
MAXMSG_CLIENT="5242880"
MAXMSG_STATUS="5242880"

Where can I get some help setting it up?

Help is available on the BBWin mailing list, bbwin-help-at-lists.sourceforge.net.

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