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		<title>Extend Big Brother 1.9i BTF Reports</title>
		<link>http://www.vatofknow.com/archives/473</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 03:37:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you are a user of Big Brother, you may know that by default, your reporting dates cut off on the year 2010.  To extend this capability to the current year, you just need to edit bb-rep.html, found at /usr/local/bb/www/help/bb-rep.html.  Simply add the following options to your start-yr and end-yr: &#60;SELECT NAME=&#8221;start-yr&#8221;&#62; &#60;OPTION VALUE=&#8221;1999&#8243;&#62;1999 &#60;OPTION [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Disable server for maintenance in Big Brother</title>
		<link>http://www.vatofknow.com/archives/465</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2011 07:31:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So you have a planned outage, and you don&#8217;t want the damn thing setting off alarms while it&#8217;s down?  Easy enough.  If you prefer to hold on to the entry in your bb-hosts file for later testing then this is for you.  Simply enable this feature by editing /usr/local/bb/etc/bbdef-server.sh.  Search the file for RUNOPTS.  Around [...]]]></description>
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		<title>RRDTool and LARRD on CentOS 5.5</title>
		<link>http://www.vatofknow.com/archives/414</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jan 2011 19:54:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have always followed CookIT services guide on installing Big Brother as a guideline, and it has worked very well.  It&#8217;s intended use is for Solaris, but it gives you what you need for a successful installation.   Regarding the section to install RRDTool and LARRD, there are some differences and things to note. PERL To [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Big Brother Client startup script for Linux</title>
		<link>http://www.vatofknow.com/archives/384</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Dec 2010 20:57:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just had to do this again recently and was having issues. Here is the script you need to create. Make the client automatically start on boot If you wish to start BB automatically at startup, create a file called bbc and put it in your /etc/init.d dir: # vi /etc/init.d/bbc Put vi into insert mode [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Configure Big Brother BTF with Windows 2008 and W7</title>
		<link>http://www.vatofknow.com/archives/369</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Nov 2010 17:46:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Copy the c:\bbnt\ folder, binary included, from another server, and then from a command prompt: c: cd \bbnt bbnt -y -install 137.238.1.200 Y The IP 137.238.1.200 should be the same as your BBDISPLAY server.  Now, in Server 2008, make sure that you command prompt window was launched with administrative privileges.]]></description>
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		<title>Big Brother tweaks</title>
		<link>http://www.vatofknow.com/archives/314</link>
		<comments>http://www.vatofknow.com/archives/314#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Dec 2009 19:09:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So there are a few tweaks I need to jot down so they don&#8217;t get lost.  When installing a Big Brother (BB) client on a Linux or Solaris platform, there are a couple of things you may run into: Error in msgs &#8220;/var/log/messages is unreadable&#8221; This is resolved by doing the following. Add the bb [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Defining SMS for Big Brother</title>
		<link>http://www.vatofknow.com/archives/234</link>
		<comments>http://www.vatofknow.com/archives/234#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2009 23:34:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Requirements for configuring SMS Notifications in Big Brother To send an SMS message there are two options: 1.Through an email to pager gateway. This requires the user to define, in bbwarnrules.cfg, the recipient as ep-XXXXXXXXXX where &#8220;XXXXXXXXXX&#8221; is the email address by the provider. 2. Install a modem on the BBPAGER server and configure the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Big Brother &#8211; Disable and/or Hide Tests</title>
		<link>http://www.vatofknow.com/archives/200</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2009 19:27:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are instances where you will want to hide a test on the Big Brother display. For instance, if you followed the article to configure memory testing and graphing, you would want to hide the &#8220;mem&#8221; column. Linux &#8211; Disable test The bbdef-client.sh file has settings for the default tests like: DOCPU, DOMSGS, DOPROCS, DODISK, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Big Brother &#8211; Memory</title>
		<link>http://www.vatofknow.com/archives/181</link>
		<comments>http://www.vatofknow.com/archives/181#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2009 22:23:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post is about memory tests and memory graphing for Big Brother. Out of the box, BB 4.1 Professional tests memory fine on Windows boxes, but not Linux. bb-memory 3.1 This external script will perform tests on memory for Linux, including physical memory, actual memory and swap memory. Download it here. Here are the instructions, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Big Brother is watching</title>
		<link>http://www.vatofknow.com/archives/71</link>
		<comments>http://www.vatofknow.com/archives/71#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2008 07:34:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Your servers!  In all the years of administration, I can&#8217;t believe I overlooked this great monitoring tool.  It was originally developed on the Linux platform, but now has support for the Windows platform as well as a Big Brother server. Clients can be of any flavor platform, including SNMP devices.  It&#8217;s time I worked up [...]]]></description>
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