The eG Installation Guide - eG Innovations

Installing and Configuring on Unix
3. Upon confirming, you will view the following message. Type y here to continue.
Note: Only a web server administrator has permissions to configure the eG web
adapter capability for a web server.
Do you want to continue y/n? [y]: y
4. Next, setup will want to know whether the current user is the web server’s administrator or not.
Are you the administrator of this web server? y/n [y]:
Entering y or n here will bring up the following query:
Please enter the user name of the web server's administrator:
Next, you will need to enter the web server administrator's password...
Password:
5. Next, enter the root directory of the web server to be configured. Also, indicate whether the web
server is SSL-enabled.
Enter the root directory of the SunONE / iPlanet web server: /usr/local/web
Is this web server enabled for SSL support? y/n [n]:
6. Based on the server type and the root directory, the setup_webadapter script proceeds to modify
the web server startup scripts to use the eG web adapter when the web server starts up.
7. Then the user has to specify whether this web server is enabled for SSL support. If the user
chooses y, the setup process configures the web adapter for SSL support. The following error
message appears if the web server is not configured with Dynamic Shared Object (DSO) support.
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This web server has not been configured with DSO support ...
The eG SSL enabled web adapter cannot be installed.
Please reconfigure this web server with DSO support and
run the command /opt/egurkha/bin/setup_webadapter to
configure the web server with eG agent's web adapter capability
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8. Next, the configuration process prompts the user to determine if the user is the administrator of
the web server that is to be configured for monitoring by an eG agent. If the user is not the web
server administrator, the configuration process prompts the user for the web server
administrator’s login name and password.
9. The configuration process attempts to update the web server’s startup file(s) to include eGspecific
start-up information. The configuration process terminates with the following message:
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If there are any errors in the above process, you may not have
permission to update the web server's configuration.
Please have the web server's administrator run the command
/opt/egurkha/bin/setup_webadapter
If there were no errors, the web adapter has been successfully configured. For the
web adapter to be effective, please restart the configured web server.
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