OK, you have installed according to the instructions, you have configured until you’re blue but the piece of XXX won’t work.
Type “net start mrbig”. The reply will look different depending on whether the service has been installed and/or started: The service name is invalid Not installed The Mr Big Monitoring Agent service was started successfully Installed, not started The requested service has already been started Installed and started
##Won’t start Since Windows services don’t make a lot of noise, it can be difficult to see what’s going on. For this reason, Mr Big can be started as an ordinary console application. This is done with the -t option:
mrbig -t -d -m
It will run until you press Ctrl-C. The -d option gives some debugging information of dubious value. The -m option activates memory debugging by keeping track of all memory allocations and deallocations, and detecting if the program attempts to write outside allocated memory.
Repeating -d will increase the amount of debugging information. Three or more -d will produce so much “information” that it will be very difficult to see the needle for all the hay, and server load will rise.
##Starts, nothing happens First of all: make sure that the file mrbig.cfg exists and has exactly that name, not mrbig.cfg.txt or some other such Windows weirdness.
Also make sure that the client is configured on the BB server. Otherwise the reports may not be accepted.
Verify the spelling of everything in mrbig.cfg, especially the lines for display and machine. If possible, use minicfg to get this information automatically.
##Logging Mr Big can log some information to a file. Add to mrbig.cfg:
logfile C:\temp\mrbig.log
The file can be anywhere, but make sure that SYSTEM has permission to write there.
If looking for some specific information, it can be a good idea to build a custom version of mrbig.exe with extra debugging. Use the source, Luke!
Running Mr Big with logging enabled permanently is not recommended since it will increase load and take up disk space.
The program minibbd is used to see what the client is trying to send. Start minibbd in a dos window. It listens to port 1984 just like a real BB server, but just logs everything it receives to the console. Add the line “display 127.0.0.1” to mrbig.cfg to send all reports to minibbd. It is possible to have several display lines in mrbig.cfg and the reports will be sent to all of them.
##Missing performance objects Mr Big works by reading performance data from the Registry. Mr Big can’t monitor an object unless it can be read.
The cause of the problem can be a disabled dll. Check this like this:
Reading the objects should now be possible.