There is not much of a difference between the installation of an agent node and a Big Sister Server. In fact they differ only in two files located at /etc/bigsister. A Big Sister Server always needs the bb-display.cfg file to make it feel like a server. Agent node always need the uxmon-net file. The start script /etc/init.d/bigsister checks which file is present and starts the required deamons. In order to avoid any confusion and accidental installation of several servers in one network, the base rpm contains none of the above mentioned configuration files. The installation process using the RPMs is as follows: first you install the base package containing all the binaries, scripts and so on. Afterwards you install an additional RPM package containing the required configuration file to make your base installation a server or an agent node.
The following guidelines assume that you are using the rpm command line interface and not any GUI like gnorpm or others.If you are doing a fresh install,
rpm -i bigsister-[some rev. number].rpm |
should do the job and install the base package. Afterwards you should use
rpm -i bigsister-agent-[some rev. number].rpm |
to install an agent node or
rpm -i bigsister-server-[some rev. number].rpm |
to make it a Big Sister server.
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Please read the Release Notes of every new version before doing an upgrade. |
Updating Big Sister is usually as simple as doing a
rpm -Uhv bigsister-[some rev. number].rpm |
If your previous installation was done from the sources, a
make |
with the same arguments you originally used should do the job. Files that are user-editable (config files, etc.) won't get overwritten, binaries will though.
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Some things you should be aware of:
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