User`s guide

Section 1, Task 2: Start Your Data Collection Software
This task walks you through checking the installation of your logging and collector software and then starting the logging and
collection.
Prerequisites
In this document, the host on which your collector software is installed is called the collector host or the management host. You
can use your workstation as the collector/management host. However, typically the collector/management host is a different
machine from your workstation.
1. Verify that the logging and collector software is installed appropriately.
Verify that your logging and collector software is installed properly according to the vendor’s documentation.
For performance reasons, the collector host running the software that actually logs the performance data will generally be
a different host from your workstation and from the host upon which you do your data processing and analysis with IT
Service Vision.
Actions
1. Start the logging and collector software, if it is not already running.
Start process accounting to a disk file with the accton command on each system you want to monitor. Though the exact syntax
of the accton command varies slightly from one UNIX operating system to the other, it is generally the case that process
accounting is initiated when root or another authorized userid issues the accton command. As processes end, information on
the resources they consumed is logged by the operating system. See the man file for the UNIX system in question for details on
running the accton command.
a. Start SpectroSERVER.