Starting And Stopping The Monitoring Agent; Uninstalling The Monitoring Agent; Configuring The Monitoring Agent - Novell PLATESPIN ORCHESTRATE 2.0.2 - INSTALLATION AND CONFIGURATION GUIDE 10-09-2009 Installation And Configuration Manual

NOTE: You must be logged on as Administrator to run the installation program.
4a (Conditional) If you are installing on Windows Server 2008, click Accept on the User
Account Control dialog box to allow the installation to proceed as system administrator.
4b On the Welcome page, click Next.
4c On the Ganglia open source license page, select Accept.
4d On the Select Destination Location page, choose a location where you want to install the
gmond service.
We recommend that you use the default location (the 32-bit
folder).
4e Select the components that you want to install, then click Next.
For nearly all installations, you need to install the gmond service only. The full source
code, including source code for the
component list to satisfy the terms of the GPL license. The components other than
cygwin1.dll
4f (Optional) If you want the monitoring agent to communicate with an Orchestrate
Monitoring server, enter the name and port number of the server in the appropriate fields,
then click Next.
4g (Optional) If you do not want the monitoring agent to communicate with an Orchestrate
Monitoring server, make sure that you do not enter any information in the Monitoring
Server Name field, then click Next.
4h On the Ready to Install page, review the components to be installed, then click Install.
4i On the Completing the gmond Setup Wizard page, click Finish.
B.1.3 Starting and Stopping the Monitoring Agent
If you are logged on as the Windows administrator, you can start and stop the gmond service using
the Windows Services Control Panel.
1 From the desktop, click My Computer, select Manage, expand Services and Applications,
expand Services, then right click the gmond service object and choose the Start or Stop option
as needed.
B.1.4 Uninstalling the Monitoring Agent
You can uninstall gmond using the Add/Remove Programs utility in the Windows Control Panel.
Uninstalling gmond automatically shuts down the gmond service prior to uninstalling.
B.2 Configuring the Monitoring Agent
This version of the Monitoring Agent uses the open source gmond 3.0.6 code. It is preconfigured to
run only on a Windows local machine. It does not support multicasting. The installation includes a
preconfigured
gmond.conf
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in this release are licensed under GPL compatible open source licenses.
that will work strictly on the local host. You can manually edit
gmond.conf
for a different configuration, but your changes are not supported by Novell.
C:\Program Files\Gmond
l library is also available in the
cygwin1.dl