Step 3 - Verifying Server Installation
To verify that an installation has completed successfully, perform the following steps:
- Ensure that the following message is displayed to the standard
output or in the installation log file
/var/log/BESInstall.log
:The installation of IBM BiFix was completed successfully. You can now proceed to install the BigFix Console on a Windows System and log on as 'EvaluationUser', the user just created. The BigFix Console installer is available in the folder '/var/opt/BESInstallers
- Ensure that the services associated with each installed components
are up and running by entering the following commands from
/etc/init.d
:./besserver status ./besfilldb status ./besgatherdb status ./besclient status ./beswebreports status
- Ensure that local or remote databases are created by switching
to the local DB2 Administrative user (default:
db2inst1
) and running the list database command:
Check that the following databases are created:su - db2inst1 db2 list db diretory
- Server component:
BFENT
- WebReports component:
BESREPOR
- Server component:
- Launch the BigFix Console
and provide the credentials of the first BigFix user
created at installation time to ensure that the Console connects to
the Server. The user default value for the evaluation installation
is
EvaluationUser
. Ensure that the client installed by default on the server machine is registered. - Ensure that you can log on to the Web Reports from the Console by selecting Tools -> Launch WebReports and providing the credentials of the first user created at installation time.