Chapter 13: Using Systems Management

Running the JMX agent

Before you run the JMX agent, verify that the JAVA_HOME environment variable points to a JRE 1.4 installation, and that SybSNMP is running so that the agent can connect to it—see “SNMP master agent”.

Starting the JMX agent on UNIX

Change to the ROOT/bin directory, and enter:

SybAgent.sh [-F agent props] [-h] [-o log] [-v n]

Table 13-3 defines the command line options.

**Table 13-3: SybAgent start-up options**
Option	Description
-F path	Specifies the location of the agent.props file, which contains the necesssary configuration to start the agent server. You can make a copy of agent.props, then change any of the settings; for example, to define a different class path, or to include other services.
-h	Prints the list of start-up options.
-o log	Specifies the name of the log file; the default is agent.log.
-v n	Writes the debugging messages identified by n to the log file identified by -o. Table 13-4 defines the possible values for n.

**Table 13-4: SybAgent debugging options**
Debugging level	Generates these messages
0	FATAL
1	ERROR
2	WARN
3	INFO
4	DEBUG

Starting the JMX agent on Windows

Change to the ROOT\bin directory, and enter:
```
SybAgent.bat [-F agent props] [-h] [-o log] [-v n]
```
where Table 13-3 defines the command line options.

Stopping the JMX agent on UNIX

Change to the ROOT/bin directory, and enter:
```
StopSybAgent.sh
```

Stopping the JMX agent on Windows

Change to the ROOT\bin directory, and enter:
```
StopSybAgent.bat
```

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