bb_geo_map (plug-in)

The bb_geo_map external command for Big Brother can be downloaded from the BB user community venue www.deadcat.net. The bb_geo_map extension gives you a geographical representation of device failures in your monitored infrastructure on top of any geographical region on earth. When a device failure is recognized by the extension it will plot the location of the device on the map view, from there, you can mouse over the plot and click on the link to view the Big Brother status report for that failure.

To use this extension: (written in Perl for Windows and requires ActiveState Perl)

1. Download bb_geo_map.

2. Save the bb_geo_map.zip file in the %BBCLIENT%\ext directory on your Windows BB management server.

The Windows BBClient is usually in C:\Program Files\Quest Software\Big Brother\BBNT\ext

3. Edit the bb_geo_map.pl script and set the following variables for your environment:

$bb_web_server - The hostname, FQDN or IP address of your BBServer.

$bb_logs_path. - The path where BB status logs are kept (%BBVAR%\logs)

$lat_long_ref - The location of the host_lat_long.xml that was downloaded with the script.

4. Edit the host_lat_long.xml file and add latitude and longitude coordinates for your devices.

Then execute the bb_geo_map.pl script from a cmd prompt, task scheduler or your BBClient. You should see a bb_geo_map.html file get created in the same directory where you executed the script from. Open that HTML file in a browser to see your device failures.

This is a very cool add-on for Big Brother, but, it's not integrated into the BBDISPLAY like you would think it should be. I've made several modifications to the original script so that the output of the bb_geo_map.pl extension gets integrated onto the BBDISPLAY as a column named "bbmap". If you're interested, send me an email and I'll give you my changes.

Home Big Brother Installation BBClone Configuration Custom Email Extensions Add extensions Ack notifications bb_geo_map CPUTemp MRTG Perf graphs HELP DOCS Security NIX ODBC UNIX/Linux Windows Perl Contact us	bb_geo_map (plug-in) The bb_geo_map external command for Big Brother can be downloaded from the BB user community venue www.deadcat.net. The bb_geo_map extension gives you a geographical representation of device failures in your monitored infrastructure on top of any geographical region on earth. When a device failure is recognized by the extension it will plot the location of the device on the map view, from there, you can mouse over the plot and click on the link to view the Big Brother status report for that failure. To use this extension: (written in Perl for Windows and requires ActiveState Perl) 1. Download bb_geo_map. 2. Save the bb_geo_map.zip file in the %BBCLIENT%\ext directory on your Windows BB management server. The Windows BBClient is usually in C:\Program Files\Quest Software\Big Brother\BBNT\ext 3. Edit the bb_geo_map.pl script and set the following variables for your environment: $bb_web_server - The hostname, FQDN or IP address of your BBServer. $bb_logs_path. - The path where BB status logs are kept (%BBVAR%\logs) $lat_long_ref - The location of the host_lat_long.xml that was downloaded with the script. 4. Edit the host_lat_long.xml file and add latitude and longitude coordinates for your devices. Then execute the bb_geo_map.pl script from a cmd prompt, task scheduler or your BBClient. You should see a bb_geo_map.html file get created in the same directory where you executed the script from. Open that HTML file in a browser to see your device failures. This is a very cool add-on for Big Brother, but, it's not integrated into the BBDISPLAY like you would think it should be. I've made several modifications to the original script so that the output of the bb_geo_map.pl extension gets integrated onto the BBDISPLAY as a column named "bbmap". If you're interested, send me an email and I'll give you my changes.