Installing Hyperic agents

Hyperic agents need to be installed on each machine that you wish to monitor. The agent will report the metrics back to the Hyperic server. In this recipe, we will learn how to install a Hyperic agent.

Getting ready

You will need to install the Hyperic agent install ZIP file plus the necessary permissions to log in, and install the software on the machine that runs your Oracle SOA Suite application. The Hyperic agent will need to be installed as the same user as Oracle SOA Suite, in order to detect it properly.

How to do it…

We can follow these steps to install our Hyperic agents:

1. Extract the Hyperic agent ZIP file to the location where you want it to be installed.

2. Navigate to the bin directory:

   cd bin

3. Run the install task of the relevant hq-agent script—either hq-agent.sh or hq-agent.bat:

   hq-agent.bat install

4. Run the start task of the relevant hq-agent script—either hq-agent.sh or hq-agent.bat:

   hq-agent.bat start

5. The agent will start up, and start prompting for its configuration...