Installing Vital Signs on HPUX

Download the latest Stable Release

• Download Vital Signs 1.7 Stable UNIX

• Transfer VSIGNS-HPUX-1706.gz binary to /ASKPLUS

• Check File Integrity Sum

md5sum VSIGNS-HPUX-1706.gz
5c9751eec69924ee8e488290bb2d0131 VSIGNS-UNIX-1706.gz

cksum VSIGNS-HPUX-1706.gz
2795608035 53260 VSIGNS-UNIX-1706.gz

Installing Vital Signs on HPUX

• Login to HPUX as askplus and unzip/untar VSIGNS-HPUX-1601.gz

gunzip VSIGNS-HPUX-1706.gz
tar -xvf VSIGNS-HPUX-1706

• Run vsinstall

 cd /ASKPLUS/vsdata
 ./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 ...

Copy custom/live files

 cp /ASKPLUS/vsdata/custom/test/* /ASKPLUS/vsdata/custom/live/

Verify Permissions

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

Setup datachng.sl (.so Itanium)

cp /ASKPLUS/vsdata/datachng.so /ASKPLUS/
chmod 750 /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

• Review criteria in /ASKPLUS/vsdata/custom/live/vsmacdef

Initial Test Run

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

 login bolive
 /VSJOBS/JVSLOAD_HIST CMNDFILE=1
 /VSJOBS/JVSLOAD_HIST
 /VSJOBS/JVSLOAD_MBRSHLN

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

 VSFTP INFO - version 1.6
 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.

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