Installing Vital Signs on Windows

Windows Server Prep Checklist

• Created vitalsigns local or domain administrator user

• Installed IIS for standard FTP

• Installed .net framework 4.0

Downloading Vital Signs

Login to the Windows server as vitalsigns

Download Vital Signs 1.5 Stable

Unzip vitalsigns-1.5-stable.zip

Installing Vital Signs

Login to the Windows server as vitalsigns

Create a directory named vitalsigns on the large drive where Vital Signs will be installed

Browse into C:\Users\vitalsigns\Downloads\vitalsigns-1.5-stable\V1.5.27_Nov_13\Windows and copy the CU1 and bin directories into the vitalsigns directory

Rename the CU1 folder to your Credit Union acronym

Configuring Vital Signs

Vital Signs Listener

Browse to vitalsigns\YOURCU\data\config

Copy vsigns_srv-samp.ini to vsigns_srv.ini

Copy start_vsigns_srv-samp.vbs to start_vsigns_srv.vbs

Edit vsigns_srv.ini and modify the VS_PATH to your vitalsigns\YOURCU path

Example vsigns_srv.ini

 VS_PATH      "E:\vitalsigns\VSCU"
 VS_PORT      30601
 VS_LOG       "vsigns_srv.log"
 QV_PATH      "c:\program files\qlikview"
 QV_NAME      "qv.exe"
 CLEANUP      "archive"
 LOG_ARCHIVE_DAYS          20
 ASD_ARCHIVE_DAYS          30
 QV_UNICODE   "UTF-8"

Edit start_vsigns_srv.vbs and change the paths appropriately

Example start_vsigns_srv.vbs

 Dim oShell
 Set oShell = CreateObject ("WScript.shell")
 oShell.run "cmd /K C:\Python27\python E:\vitalsigns\bin\vsigns_srv.py E:\vitalsigns\VSCU\data\config\vsigns_srv.ini > E:\vitalsigns\VSCU\data\config\vsigns_srv.log"
 Set oShell = Nothing

Double click start_vsigns_srv.vbs to start the listener in the foreground for verification

There should be just a underscore with a black background if this was successful

Setup Task to start Listener on Startup

Login as the vitalsigns user

Open taskschd.msc from the run line