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Foglight 5.9.5 - Installing Foglight on a UNIX System with an External MySQL Database

Table of Contents  

Before Installing Foglight

What is Foglight? Hardware requirements and guidelines Planning your installation

High Availability mode

Considerations for running the Management Server in HA mode

Using an external database Licensing Installation modes

Console mode Silent mode

Installing Foglight

Preparing to install Installing a new version of the Management Server

Step 1: Introduction

Step 1: Introduction Step 2: Transaction Product Agreement Step 3: Select installation type Step 4: Choose installation folder Step 5: Choose link location Step 6: Pre-installation summary Step 7: Installing Foglight Step 8: Foglight administrator password Step 9: Foglight mode Step 10: Foglight repository database type Step 11: Foglight ports configuration Step 12: Add Foglight license file Step : Add Foglight to system service Step 14: Foglight server startup Step 15: Install complete

Foglight Server Startup page Next steps External MySQL database access for remote users

Executing the Grant All On Query script

Embedded Agent Manager

Installed directories Foglight settings

Editing the server.config file Enabling High Availability mode after installation Changing external database credentials Setting up an encrypted database connection with SSL Setting up an encrypted LDAP connection with SSL Using encryption when sending email from Foglight Configuring ports Configuring the cluster multicast port used in High Availability mode Setting up Foglight server federation Setting the SQL Parser properties Setting memory parameters for the server

Process heap use

Adding command-line options Binding the Management Server to an IP address Configuring Foglight to use stronger encryption Configuring Foglight to use the HTTPS port

Importing a network security certificate Importing a PKCS #12 (pfx) format certificate

Setting the length of Foglight sessions

HP patch checking tool Uninstalling Foglight Upgrading the Management Server Installing Foglight FAQ

Running the Management Server

Manual database configuration

Option 1 - Run the Foglight database tool to configure the database Option 2 - Run SQL scripts to configure the database

Initializing and tuning the database

Initializing the database Tuning an external MySQL database for Foglight

Starting and stopping the Management Server

Starting the Management Server Stopping the Management Server Starting and stopping the Management Server in High Availability mode

Logging in to Foglight

Monitoring the Management Server host Next steps

Migrating data from an existing database Running the Management Server FAQ

Installing and Upgrading Cartridges Installing Agents

Agent installers Remote agent installation

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Starting the Management Server

The following sections describe how to start the Management Server from the command line and lists additional commands for use when starting or running the Management Server.

To start the Management Server from the command line:

•	Navigate to the directory <foglight_home>/bin and run the following command:

fms

 

NOTE: To start the Management Server in High Availability mode, see Starting and stopping the Management Server in High Availability mode

When the Management Server starts successfully, the following message appears in the command window:

Forge Server startup completed.

Additional commands

 

Table 4. Starting the Management Server - additional commands

Commands	Represents	Description
-s	start	Starts the Management Server (this option is assumed if no command is specified).
-d	start the process as a daemon	Starts the Management Server as a daemon (if the process is not started as a daemon, the command prompt is held captive by the running Management Server, and remains in the foreground). NOTE: The following scripts in $FGLHOME/bin directory can start the Management Server as a daemon and shut it down, respectively: fmsStartup.sh fmsShutdown.sh
-n	name	Provides a unique name for this instance of the Management Server.
-j	jvm-argument	Sets an option to be passed directly to the Java® VM. Can be used to set more than one VM option.
-v	version	Displays the version number for this program and exits.
-h	help	Shows this information, and additional options, then exits.

Initialization scripts

Another option is to start the Management Server using initialization scripts. This option is particularly useful when you want to automatically start the Management Server after it has been rebooted.

The initialization scripts can be found in the directory <foglight_home>/scripts/init.d. A readme.txt file is available in the same location. Review this file before running the script as it contains valuable information on how to use the script for your specific platform.

Stopping the Management Server

The following section describes how to stop the Management Server.

To stop the Management Server:

Do one of the following:

•	Type Ctrl-C on the command window in which the Management Server started.

•	Navigate to the bin directory and run the following command: fms --stop

When the server has stopped successfully, the Start command window closes.

Starting and stopping the Management Server in High Availability mode

Configuring your server in High Availability (HA) mode allows you to run multiple servers in a partition offering HA.

 

NOTE: To run the HA server, you must use an external database. The database has to be running before you start the Foglight HA server.

To start the High Availability Server:

•	Enter the following from the command line: fmsha

When the server has started successfully, the following message appears in the command window:

High Availability Server startup completed.

To stop the High Availability Server:

Do one of the following:

•	Type Ctrl-C in the command window in which the Foglight HA server started.

•	Open a second command window, navigate to the bin directory, and run the following command: fmsha --stop When the server has stopped successfully, the command window closes.

For more information about configuring and managing High Availability mode, see the High Availability Field Guide.

Logging in to Foglight

 

NOTE: The Management Server must be running before you can log in to Foglight.

To log in to Foglight using a web browser:

1	Open a web browser and type the following:

http://<hostname>:<port>

Where <hostname> is the name of the machine where the Management Server is installed and <port> is the HTTP port specified during installation (the default is 8080).

2	Enter a valid user name and password and click Login.

 

NOTE: The Foglight browser interface requires JavaScript. Ensure that you have enabled JavaScript in your web browser before you attempt to log in.

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