Installing the Monitoring Agent as a Windows service

Use the Content Delivery installer to install the Monitoring Agent as a 64-bit Windows service on a Windows machine that runs one or more Server Roles you intend to monitor. The Windows service requires a 64-bit JVM.

Procedure

  1. Open a command prompt.
  2. Navigate to the Content Delivery\installer\ folder and run the file startCDinstaller.bat.
  3. Follow the instructions on the screen and select to install the Monitoring Agent Windows service. Note that as a final step, you can save your installation settings to an XML file. This is useful if you want to reinstall the Monitoring Agent again later on another machine.
  4. In your Windows Control Panel, access Services and start the Tridion Monitoring Agent Windows service.