Hyperic Agent Installation on Windows

[vmnfritsch]

I'm looking for straight forward documentation, or perhaps a blog article or post on how to install the Windows Agent so that I can monitor guest OS metrics via Hyperic.  Needless to say the documentation is really bad and I'm having a lot of issues simply trying to install the agent.  The server install, if done correctly, was a breeze.

Thank you.

[admin · Accepted solution]

Here is a quick list of actions to follow if you're ok with the default settings.

Open port 2144 on the Windows Firewall if necessary

Unzip the agent in a directory with no spaces in the path.  Preferably in C:\

Launch a command window with Administrator permissions

Navigate to the Agent's bin directory

Run the following commands

hq-agent.bat install

hq-agent.bat start

You'll be prompted to enter information necessary to setup the agent to communicate with the HQ Server

You can take most of the defaults except the IP/Hostname of the Server, username/password.

Also enter "yes" for the last prompt about trusting the Hyperic Server

[vmnfritsch]

Thanks for the quick response.  When I try to run install using the information below I receive Java Service Community Wrapper Edition 3.6.5 has stopped working.  Any ideas?

[vmnfritsch]

I figured it out.  There was a space in my installation path.  In regards to agent configuration, make sure you you start the agent via the CLI using hq-agent.bat start.  You will be prompted with the agent configuration dialog to point the agent to the Hyperic Server.

[admin]

Yes, the first time the agent is started, you'll need to use the CLI.

After that, it can start like any other service.

Glad it worked for you.