Installation1) Install ActivestatePerl (http://www.activestate.com/) 2) Get at least two additional Perl modules. The simpliest way to do this is to just add them via ppm: - GD: run "ppm install http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/ppms/GD.ppd" if you are running Perl 5.8, or "ppm install http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/ppmpackages/GD.ppd" if you are running Perl 5.6.1 - Win32::Daemon: run "ppm install http://www.roth.net/perl/packages/win32-daemon.ppd" 3) Unpack the Big Sister "NTpre.zip" package e.g. as C:\bigsis 4) cd into the \bigsis\bin directory and run perl install32 IMPORTANT: If you already have had a Big Sister installation on the machine please shut down any Big Sister Service and do a perl install32 -r before step 4. Sometimes Windows refuses to immediately delete existing services (check back in the Service Manager: if the Big Sister services are still there and marked "deactivated" Windows had some problem ...). In this case you'll have to reboot the machine, sorry. 5) edit configuration files in adm\ directory 6) start the service manager from the control panel, find the Big Sister services and set their start mode to whatever suits you best. Start the services you want to run. 7) Big Sister should work, now. Please don't ask me for a guide on how to set up IIS :-) Important newsInstsrv/Srvany In order to run former versions of Big Sister as a service you needed to install Instsrv/Srvany which were not freely available. This is still supported but no longer needed. Provided you installed the Win32::Daemon module (see step 2) of the installation procedure above) you do not need any additional tools. Stand-alone (.exe, non-Perl) version The compiled version of Big Sister 0.98 running stand-alone without the need for an installed Perl interpreter will be released within the next few weeks. However, it will not be freely (where "freely" means "at no cost") be available. System Type Please do use one of DESCR features=windows,windows2000 localhost DESCR features=windows,windowsxp localhost DESCR features=windows,windowsnt4 localhost in the uxmon-net file in order to tell uxmon-net what system it runs on. Sensors The "diskfree" test is now obsolete. Please do use the "disk" test for monitoring disk free space as on every other platform. The "procs" test now does not monitor services any more. Instead, the procs test monitors running processes (as seen in the Task Manager / Processes Tab). This is much more consistent with the behaviour on other platforms. If you want to still monitor running services then please just use the new "services" test. |