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Chapter 2. Agent Configuration
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## Chapter 2. Agent Configuration

## First steps

Are you curious? Just want to start it up and see what's going on? Ok, lets go. Simply start the server by issueing

-     /etc/init.d/bigsister start

  on unix systems

- Start Big Sister Monitor services on Windows systems

The server should immediately start listening to the default agent/server port (TCP port 1984) and create the initial web pages in the www directory. Try starting a Web browser and point it to the newly generated index.html file.

Now you can proceed to configure and bring up agents. First you should configure all agent nodes to point to your Big Sister server by editing the `uxmon-net` file. Locate the line `localhost bsdisplay`, replace `localhost` by the name (or the IP address) of the system hosting your Big Sister server and start the agent. On Windows systems start the Big Sister Agent service via the Control Panel / Service Manager, on Unix systems issue

`/etc/init.d/bigsister start`

| Note
For more background information why this is the same command as on your Big Sister server please read the section "Installing Big Sister from the RPM-packages" subsection "Fresh Install".

Now go back to your web browser and reload the viewed pages. If you are using the bb-display.cfg initially installed on the server the agents should automatically join the Groups NEW, UNIVERSE and ALL and appear on the status page (this may take a few minutes).

Try the links Admin, Alarms and History to see if the CGI configuration of your web server is right.

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