Suggested Installation Sequence

To evaluate or deploy the monitoring feature of Java ES, perform the installation in the following order:

1. Install and configure all of the components in your deployment according to the instructions in the Sun Java Enterprise System 5 Update 1 Installation Guide for UNIX.

2. Enable and configure the Monitoring Framework for all of your monitored components as described by the procedures in Chapter 2, Enabling and Configuring the Monitoring Framework.

3. Install the Monitoring Console on a separate host, start the master agent, start the web server, and connect to your node agents as described in Chapter 3, Installing and Using Monitoring Console. All of your monitored components should then be visible and actively monitored in the Monitoring Console.

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   Note –

   Due to an incompatibility of the node agent and master agent in this release, the Monitoring Console must be installed on a host that does not contain any other Java ES components. See Troubleshooting the Monitoring Console for more details.

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4. If you modify your monitored components after deployment, for example if you disable monitoring on one component or a server crashes, you must restart the container for the master agent and the web server for the Monitoring Console. This procedure is described in Troubleshooting the Monitoring Framework.