Installing Vital Signs on HPUX

Download the latest Stable Release

• Download Vital Signs 1.5 Stable

• Unzip vitalsigns-1.5-stable.zip

Installing Vital Signs on HPUX

 login askplus
 mkdir /ASKPLUS/vsdata

• Transfer binary files in vitalsigns-1.5-stable\V1.5.27_Nov_13\UNIX\ to /ASKPLUS/vsdata/

• Example of files after transfer:

 drwxr-xr-x   3 askplus    users           96 Dec 18 16:33 custom
 -rw-r--r--   1 askplus    users        16384 Dec 18 16:33 datachng.sl
 -rw-r--r--   1 askplus    users        69792 Dec 18 16:33 datachng.so
 drwxr-xr-x   2 askplus    users         8192 Dec 18 16:33 jobs
 drwxr-xr-x   2 askplus    users         8192 Dec 18 16:33 scripts
 -rw-r--r--   1 askplus    users          755 Dec 18 16:33 vitalsigns.samp
 -rw-r--r--   1 askplus    users         5406 Dec 18 16:33 vsinstall
 -rw-r--r--   1 askplus    users         5570 Dec 18 16:33 vsreload.samp

• Run vsinstall

 login askplus
 cd /ASKPLUS/vsdata
 chmod 750 vsinstall
 ./vsinstall

• Example output :

 Copying sample files ...
 vitalsigns.ini
 vsreload.ini
 Adding vsdata_test to vsrvtcp.ini ...
 Adding vsdata_live to vsrvtcp.ini ...
 Adding vsdata_test_eom to vsrvtcp.ini ...
 Adding vsdata_live_eom to vsrvtcp.ini ...
 Adding vsdata_test_restore to vsrvtcp.ini ...
 Adding vsdata_live_restore to vsrvtcp.ini ...

Set Permissions

 login askplus
 chmod 750 /ASKPLUS/vsdata/jobs/*
 chmod 750 /ASKPLUS/vsdata/scripts/vsftp
 chmod 750 /ASKPLUS/vsdata/scripts/vsreload

Setup datachng.sl (.so Itanium)

login askplus
mv /ASKPLUS/vsdata/datachng.so /ASKPLUS/
chmod 755 /ASKPLUS/datachng.so

Setup Symbolic Link

 login root
 ln -fs /ASKPLUS/vsdata/jobs /VSJOBS
 ls -l /VSJOBS/

Example of output:

 -rwxr-x---   1 askplus    users        11744 Dec 18 16:33 JVSLOAD_GLDATA
 -rwxr-x---   1 askplus    users        21619 Dec 18 16:33 JVSLOAD_HIST
 -rwxr-x---   1 askplus    users        16834 Dec 18 16:33 JVSLOAD_MBRSHLN
 -rwxr-x---   1 askplus    users         6310 Dec 18 16:33 JVSLOAD_OANR
 -rwxr-x---   1 askplus    users        11673 Dec 18 16:33 JVSRELOAD

Initial Configuration

• Configure the /ASKPLUS/vsdata/vitalsigns.ini with the appropriate entries for your setup

Example :

 FTP_USER=WINDOWSFTPUSER
 FTP_PASSWD=WINDOWSFTPUSERPASSWORD
 FTP_PORT=30600
 VS_PID=`VS_$$`
 VS_HOSTIP=172.17.2.10
 VS_HOSTPORT=30601
 VS_PATH=/YOURCU
 VS_WORKPATH=/var/summit/spectrum/LIVE

Initial Test Run

• After installing Vital Signs confirm that there are no issues with the server side extracts

 login bolive
 /VSJOBS/JVSLOAD_MBRSHLN
 /VSJOBS/JVSLOAD_HIST 

• If the extract is successful, you should see the following errors if the Vital Signs Windows server has not been configured yet

 VSFTP INFO - version 1.5
 VSFTP ERROR - VS_HOSTIP is empty or not set in vitalsigns.ini
 VSFTP ERROR Detail - Empty INI Variable
 ...
   /VSJOBS/JVSLOAD_MBRSHLN
   - Error while calling vsftp.

 Error xmlrpc exception
 Serious error occurred while processing.
 Failed to reload : data\mbrshln\Load_Qvd_MBR_SHARE_LOAN VSPID : VS_1394
 (238, 'Connection timed out')

If you need further support please email support@vital-soft.com or call 1-800-848-2576 ext 21