Hyperic HQ installation

[flori_hyperic]

Hello,
I am new to Hyperic. I have downloaded the free Hyperic HQ, the bundle that has everything. I unzipped and then untarred it. I did not use the gnu tar.

I followed the instructions in the installation procedure and run the following command to install hyperic:
>hyperic-hq-installer/setup.sh
Here is what I get:
Initializing Hyperic HQ 3.2.2 Installation...
Loading taskdefs...
Taskdefs loaded
Choose which software to install:
1: Hyperic HQ Server
2: Hyperic HQ Shell
3: Hyperic HQ Agent
You may enter multiple choices, separated by commas.
1,3 HQ server installation path [default '/home/hyperic']:
/private/hyperic
HQ agent installation path [default '/private/hyperic']:

And it stays here forever. Any advise is much appreciated.
Thanks,
Flori

[BradFelmey]

Howdy.

What OS? What shell? Does the path /private/hyperic exist? Does the path /private exist? What kind of filesystem is it? What version of HQ (specifically)?

[flori_hyperic]

Hi,

OS: Solaris 10
Shell: cshell
Both: /private and /private/hyperic exist
Filesystem: not sure how I find that out
HQ version: 3.2.2

Note: I ran the setup.sh as user and not as super-user. Maybe that's where the problem is ....

Thanks,
Flori

[admin]

You need to unpack HQ using GNU tar. Using Solaris tar will result in
an error.

Charles

[flori_hyperic]

If I use Solaris tar on the .tgz file it does result in an error. When I used gzip first it uncompressed the file to a .tar file which was untarrable with Solaris tar. I tried gnu tar on the above .tar file but it did not work. From what I could tell everything that was needed was there, in terms of files and directories so I proceeded to do the installation.
I am going to download the HQ again and use the gnu tar, just in case.

A small observation: if one follows the links from your home page to get the downloads (the right hand menu) what one gets for the hq installer is a .gz file not a .tgz file. If I go to "products", and click on the free download (link in text) then I get to the list of files and have access to the .tgz file.

Thanks,
Flori

[flori_hyperic]

I have downloaded the HQ installer again (3.2.2).
I used gnu tar to unzip and untar.
I have started the installation 2.5 hours ago.

It looks like it hangs at installing the agent, unless, it takes that much to install it.

Here is how the console looks like:

kamino[129]% cd hyperic-hq-installer/
kamino[130]% df -k .
Filesystem kbytes used avail capacity Mounted on
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s7 44688233 3226654 41014697 8% /private
kamino[131]% ls
agent-3.2.2.tgz LICENSES.txt setup.bat* shell-3.2.2.tgz
installer-3.2.2/ server-3.2.2.tgz setup.sh*
kamino[132]% setup.sh
Unpacking JRE to temporary directory /tmp/jre
Initializing Hyperic HQ 3.2.2 Installation...
Loading taskdefs...
Taskdefs loaded
Choose which software to install:
1: Hyperic HQ Server
2: Hyperic HQ Shell
3: Hyperic HQ Agent
You may enter multiple choices, separated by commas.
1,3
HQ server installation path [default '/home/hyperic']:
/private/hyperic
HQ agent installation path [default '/private/hyperic']:

Any thoughts?

Thanks,
Flori

[admin]

are to install:
> 1: Hyperic HQ Server
> 2: Hyperic HQ Shell
> 3: Hyperic HQ Agent
> You may enter multiple choices, separated by commas.
> 1,3
> HQ server installation path [default '/home/hyperic']:
> /private/hyperic
> HQ agent installation path [default '/private/hyperic']:
>
> Any thoughts?

Looks like it's just waiting for you to tell it where to install the agent?

-Ryan