The eG Installation Guide - eG Innovations

Installing and Configuring on Unix
2. Search for the entry JvmMx in the file. You will then find an entry that reads as follows:
-JvmMx –JvmMs
3. The JvmMx and JvmMs specifications govern the heap memory allocations to the eG manager. If
you want to increase it to say, 2 GB, change these specifications as indicated below:
-JvmMx 2048 –JvmMs 2048
4. Finally, save the file.
While overrding the default heap memory allocations to the eG manager process, ensure that the allocated heap
memory is not greater than the total memory capacity of the eG manager host.
2.7 Installing the eG Agent
The eG agents are responsible for making periodic measurements of the infrastructure and collecting a
variety of statistics. eG agents must be deployed on the eG server as well as on web servers, DNS
servers, LDAP servers, application servers, database servers, payment gateways, etc. While the agent
that executes on the eG server is an external agent, the agents executing on the other servers are
internal agents. The installation and configuration of the external and internal agents is similar. The
main difference between these agents is in the nature of tests that these agents execute.
Internal agents are not required for network devices such as routers, load balancers, etc. which are
monitored using the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP). The eG external agent is capable
of monitoring routers, load balancers, and other network devices.
2.7.1.1 System Requirements
For the eG agent to function effectively, the system on which the agent is being installed should
support:
Note:
a. Solaris 7 (or higher), Red Hat Linux 6.0, AIX 4.3.3 (or higher), HP-UX 10 (or higher), FreeBSD
5.4, Tru64 5.1, openSUSE v11 (or above), CentOS v5.2 (or above)
b. 256 MB RAM and at least 1 GB of disk space for installing the agent
The eG agent software has to be installed from a super-user account.
As in the case of the manager, the procedure for installing an agent varies depending on the operating
system environment used. Instructions for installing the agent on Solaris, Linux, AIX and HPUX
operating systems are provided in the following sections.
2.7.2 Installing an Agent on Solaris
The eG agent software for Solaris is provided as a standard Solaris package called eGagent. To install
the agent, follow the steps below:
1. Type the following command at the command prompt.
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