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Sentry-go Setup - Ready to
Install,
Installing & Starting
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When this dialog is displayed, Setup has
enough information to install & configure the Quick Monitor on the
local machine ...

Click "Install" to proceed with the installation,
or Cancel to quit without making any changes.
During the installation, the
steps outlined below will be taken by Setup ...
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Read & agree to the
Sentry-go Licence Agreement. Please read and confirm the conditions
of the licence agreement. If you are installing Sentry-go on behalf of a
company, you agree to these conditions on behalf of your organisation.
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Stop other Sentry-go
services. In order to copy & update files, any running
services on the local server are stopped. Following installation, they
will automatically be restarted by Setup.
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Copy files for the Sentry-go Quick Monitor. Setup will now transfer files
from the installation directory to the defined Sentry-go home directory
on the local machine.
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Configure the
Sentry-go Quick Monitor. Once files have been copied, Setup will configure the system
with base & chosen settings.
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Running Setup on a
non-English Version of Windows. If Setup detects a non-English
language version of Windows is being run, the following dialog will be
displayed. This is nothing to worry about and is not an error. The
message is displayed to indicate that Setup cannot automatically pre-configure
certain performance monitor values. Instead, on non-English versions of Windows, you
should simply add the performance items (counters) you wish to monitor as
Custom Counters. All other items will continue be configured
automatically. Click OK to allow Setup to continue ...
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Configure an
Administrators Password. If you are installing/configuring the
embedded web server to provide web-based reporting from the Quick
Monitor, you will be prompted to specify the new Sentry-go
Administrators password and session timeout information. Login can be
required for all reports or non-read-only reports. Alternatively, no
login may be required - though this is not recommended ...
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If files cannot be
overwritten during installation, the following message will be shown.
This indicates that one or more files could not be installed because a
copy already existed and was "in-use" - i.e. a copy of a
Sentry-go component is running and referencing it. As long as the new
installation does not contain a newer version of the file, then this is
not a problem. However, to ensure all files are copied, it is
recommended that all local Sentry-go components be closed/stopped and
the installation re-run ...

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View & confirm custom
settings. Once installation is complete, Setup will launch the Quick Monitor
Configuration Utility if selected. This allows you you to view and customise the
settings being used by Sentry-go and define additional Administrators as
required. If the installation is an upgrade from an existing version,
then you will be prompted to re-install default settings, or configure
new settings only (i.e. upgrade).
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Installation Complete.
Once installation is complete, a window similar to this
will be displayed. From here, you can access the Quick Monitor's web
reports home page and/or Books On-line, depending on which options were
installed ...
And that's it! You're now
monitoring your server.
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Starting the Quick Monitor
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Having
installed and configured the Quick Monitor, it's time to run it! Although Setup will set the monitor to
auto-start, there may be times when you need to do this manually. To start the
Sentry-go Quick Monitor follow these simple steps ...
- On Windows NT, run the Services
applet from Windows Control Panel. On Windows 2000, open the
"Administrative Tools" folder within Control Panel, then
run Services form there. A window similar to that shown below will
be displayed ...

- By default, the list shows all the
available services on the local machine, so scroll down to highlight
the appropriate Sentry-go Quick Monitor entry. Click Start (or
Right Click/Start under Windows 2000 & above) to start the monitor.
- Verify that the service starts by
checking the status within the Services window.
- If an error occurs or the status
doesn't change to "Started", refer to the log file (which
is located in the directory chosen during installation - by default
this is "C:\Program Files\Sentry-go\goQuickMon.Log"
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Dealing with Configuration Errors
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The first time the Quick Monitor is run, it verifies the configuration
created by Setup. If any options are unavailable or cannot be set, they
are automatically disabled. Subsequently, if a configured option cannot be
used, defined system administrators will be
notified of the failure when the monitor is restarted - e.g. a
configured service or log file cannot be found on the server, or is named
incorrectly. To correct this,
run the Configuration Utility, change or correct the appropriate value(s),
then stop/start the service as described above.
Local errors are also written to the log
file defined when you installed the Quick Monitor. By default, this will
be
"C:\Program Files\Sentry-go\goQuickMon.Log". This
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From Here ...
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Now that the Quick Monitor is installed, you can view and/or edit all
configuration settings using the Configuration Utility. From there you can
change monitoring, alert and web report settings as well as define
Administrators and Alert Scripts etc.
Click
here for help on running the Sentry-go Quick Monitor Configuration
Utility.
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For Further Help & Assistance
If you have any questions or problems
regarding Sentry-go that are not resolved in Books On-line, we'll be happy to
help ...
- For the very latest product & support
information as well as knowledgebase articles and product updates, please visit www.Sentry-go.com.
- To contact Technical Support, please e-mail Support@Sentry-go.com
with details of your question and/or problem.
- For sales inquiries & advice,
please e-mail Sales@Sentry-go.com.
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