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1 Installing Perceive
This chapter contains the following topics:
Installation and system requirements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Installation requirements for Windows systems. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Installing Perceive in a Windows environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Installation requirements for UNIX systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Installing Perceive in a UNIX environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Exiting the installation utility. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Starting, stopping, and uninstalling on a Windows system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Starting, stopping, and uninstalling on a UNIX system. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
How computer and group views are displayed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Installing Perceive on your system requires only a few steps before your application
begins collecting data from agents, so that you can view a computer’s performance.
Perceive’s installation utility lets you install Perceive over an existing Performance
Console, or as a stand-alone component.
This chapter details both methods of installing Perceive, uninstalling on Windows
and UNIX systems, and how computers are discovered after installation.
Installation and system requirements
Before you install Perceive, ensure that your environment meets the hardware and
software requirements described in the following sections. Consult the Perceive
release notes for any changes to this information.
