What's new in BBWin 0.13
Jan 31, 2012
- Migrate bbwin src tree into V.S. 2010 Express.
- bbwin.wxs upgraded to WiX 3.0 syntax to make use of WiX 3.X tool.
- sample.dll now divided into central and local two examples.
- Enhance setup/Makefile to automate the build process more.
- Fixed displayed calculation of disk sizes for disk agent
- Fixed spurious "tlog not found" messages in client data
- Changed all Hobbit references to Xymon
- Updated links to the new Xymon project areas
- New styling for manual
New in BBWin 0.12 Beta (Jan 31, 2012)
- Fix multiple bbdisplay with centralized mode
- Send BBWin version (clientversion.cfg from etc folder)
- Fix service names with spaces with centralized mode (replace spaces by underscore)
New in BBWin 0.11 (Jan 31, 2012)
- 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 algorythms
- dir client-local.cfg implemented
- logfile client-local.cfg implemented
- linecount client-local.cfg implemented
- back quoted 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
New in BBWin 0.10 (Jan 31, 2012)
- New Features:
- Msgs agent reports parts of description events when the message file contening the
- static string can't be found. It will reports as the Windows Event Viewer, just like this :
- "The description for Event ID ( XXX ) in Source ( XXX ) cannot be found.
- The local computer may not have the necessary registry information or message
- DLL files to display messages from a remote computer. You may be able to use
- the /AUXSOURCE= flag to retrieve this description; see Help and Support for details.
- The following information is part of the event: XXXXX, XXXXX."
- You can use environment variables in the bbwinupdate agent. Example :
- svcs services rules can be used with comments
- disk agent can monitor free space from XX-rom drive and not only if a media is inserted.
- (feature requested to monitor dvd-ram burning state)
- disk agent can monitor volume mount points
- Proxy access : BBWin can access to your hobbit server through a proxy (http proxy)
- You can specify a user/password if you use http proxy basic authentification.
- disk agent will alert you if a disk monitored with a custum rule disappear from the Server.
- (Example : external usb harddrive turned off)
- uptime agent : add max delay option to get alerts when servers are up for a too long time
- who agent : report current connected users on the servers
- Centralized mode for agents cpu, disk, memory, msgs, netstat, ports, procs, timediff, uptime
- Centralized mode graphing network traffic
- See the bbWin webpage
New in BBWin 0.9 (Jan 31, 2012)
- New Features:
- Msgs agent reports events username and you may filter event with user name
- Msgs agent reports some statistics about each event log file. You can activate
- an option which alert you when an event log is full. See the help chm file for details.
- New BBWinUpdate agent : it used for the semi centralized mode. You can configure the agent
- to download configurations updates from a central hobbit server.
- First version of BBWin centralized mode implemented. Backend for hobbit not coded.
- Look at the BBWin.cfg example in the doc folder or in the documentation
- Updates:
- system uptime sometimes returns 0 seconds on the first query. BBWin now send
- a green status when this happens to avoid incorrect alerts.
- msgs now formats description field in status so you don't have to scroll your window
- to read a large event description
- disk agent reported alerts on unrecognized disks (like disks part of cluster resources on
- the inactive node of an MSCS cluster). These disks are now automatically ignored.
- cluster.exe is more verbose when it check the Windows version
- procs agent now is using rules with signs '+' or '-' because XML format doesn't accept
- '
New in BBWin 0.8 (Jan 31, 2012)
- New Features:
- svcs agent has now a delay setting which tell the agent to do not
- monitor the Windows services for a short time after the startup
- of the computer
- Msgs agent have priority and count options
- You may use environment variables for hostname and paths settings (registry and BBWin.cfg)
- Cpu agent can monitor uptime like the original Big Brother client. It is off by default.
- Cpu agent reports usage for each cpu
- ext directory is now created at the installation so the tree really looks like hobbit tree.
- hostname, logpath, binpath, etcpath, tmppath, extpath registry settings can be environment variables (e.g.: %VARNAME%)
- default hostname is %COMPUTERNAME%
- Updates:
- cpu agent on multi processor computers is now sending the correct cpu
- usage
- disk is now reporting correctly disk which had a size smaller than 1 mb
- autoreload is now on by default
- BBWin doesn't exits any more on errors
- Msgs default delay for matchs rules may be overridden by a generic setting
- Msgs now reports date with 24h time format
- Important note :
- A memory leak has been discovered in BBWin 0.7 due to a bug in the CRT library shipped
- with Visual C++ 2005. I'm forced to use the Visual ToolKit 2003 since not update
- is available yet for this bug. (SP1 public download not yet available)
- Here the page that explain the bug :
- http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=129031&SiteID=1&PageID=0
- http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx?FeedbackID=98861
New in BBWin 0.7 (Jan 31, 2012)
- New Features:
- Service:
- auto reload : a new option permit you to enable the auto reloading
- for the BBWin.cfg file. (BBWin.cfg timestamp is checked every 5 seconds).
- bb pager : If you are using the pager feature from Big Brother servers,
- you can enable the option to activate the alerts notifications.
- Refer to the options : usepager, bbpager, and pagerlevels.
- Agents :
- msgs (agent for the eventlog monitoring)
- Documentation :
- The format is now chm instead of a big text file
- Updates:
- BBWin + Agents :
- testname option is available for all agents (except externals) so
- you can rename the column memory to mem for example if you need it
- procs agent rules can have an extra field "comment" so you can
- explain what is the process for if its name is not easy to understand
- cpu (improved, get the owner of the process and priority, it doesn't use psapi.dll anymore)
- BBWin + Tools : Migration tool can export the bbpagers and event log settings
New in BBWin 0.6 (Jan 31, 2012)
- New Features:
- Agents:
- svcs : monitor Windows Services
- Updates:
- BBWin + Agents : resolve critical bug with the file configuration loading manager
- which crashed the program
New in BBWin 0.5 (Jan 31, 2012)
- New Features
- second public version of BBWin
- Agents:
- cpu (experimental)
- disk
- memory
- stats (netstat)
- Tools:
- Migrate configuration from other BB Clients to the BBWin configuration file format
- Updates
- BBWin : update minor bug with the management of the timer configuration value
- Agents :
- externals : can work with externals reports having lifetime
- uptime : updated to use performances counters without pdh library
New in BBWin 0.4 (Jan 31, 2012)
- first public version of BBWin
- Msi Installer
- BBWin : core service
- BBWinCmd : command line utility
- Agents :
- externals
- procs
- uptime
- Externals :
- wlbs
- cluster