Distributed ILux Server
and DB2

For performance reasons, you may choose to use separate computers for your ILux Server and your DB2 server. If you do, you must install a DB2 client on the computer where ILux server resides.

Your Web Site(s)

The ILux server needs the following information for each web site to be analyzed. For each ILux server, you can monitor up to three web servers. However, you should consider possible degradation in performance when monitoring more than one.

Site name

The URL of the web site, for example,

webserver.mydomain.com

or

www.mydomain.com

IP address

In the form:

nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn

Web root directory

The directory under which all web files are served.

If you have a network connection with read access you can specify the web root directory by UNC name or DOS path, such as:

\\webserver\html (UNC)

or

h:\html (DOS path)

You can also access the web directory structure via ftp,using a normal or anonymous login, such as:

ftp://userid:password@ webserver.mydomain.com/html (normal)

or

ftp://webserver. mydomain.com/html (anonymous)

Log File Directory

If you have a network connection and appropriate privileges you can specify the log file directory by UNC name or DOS path, such as:

\\webserver\logs (UNC)

or

h:\logs (DOS path)

If you do not have a network connection, you can also access the log files via ftp, using a normal or anonymous login, such as:

ftp://userid:password@ webserver.mydomain.com/logs (normal)

or

ftp://webserver. mydomain.com/logs (anonymous)

Name of Log File(s)

Identify the naming pattern of your web server's log files. To choose a range of log files, use wildcards. (For example, access*)

Case Sensitive Log Files

If the web server to be monitored is on an operating system with a case-sensitive file system (for example, UNIX), select this option. If the web server is on an operating system with a case insensitive file system (for example, Windows), do not select this option.

Port number

The TCP/IP port that is used by the web server for HTTP communication. Typically, this is port 80.

The ILux Client

During ILux server install, two sets of ILux client files are created. One set is for launching the ILux client as a Java applet from any Java enabled web browser, while the other set is a client installation for launching ILux as a Java application from a Java virtual machine.

The files for the web browser based ILux Java Applet must be placed under a web server root on the SAME machine as the ILux Server and its storage requirement is approximately 1.2MB. Its default location is:

D:\www\html\ilux\client

The ILux Java Application client installation files (sample/) reside in a separate directory under the main ILux server directory. The default location is:

<windows_drive>:\Program Files\ilux\Client Install

For convenience, this directory and its contents should be later placed in a shareable directory for ease of client installation.

ILux Report Directory

ILux produces all its reports in HTML format. For the reports to be viewed by a browser, the report directory must be located anywhere under any web server's web root directory. Because the nature of the ILux reports are typically for internal usage, we suggest that the reports are stored on a password protected Internet location or an Intranet web server.

SMTP server

ILux allows e-mail notifications to be sent to users for certain events, such as when reports have completed. Therefore, ILux requires the SMTP mail server's DNS name or IP address used by the domain, such as postmaster.mydomain.com.

Installing the ILux Server

Before beginning installation, be sure you have collected all the information described in the previous portions of this Guide.

To install ILux, simply double click on the self-extracting file ILuxEntDB2.exe in the same location as this file. Follow the install instructions step by step. After you complete installation, review the remainder of this Guide.

Verify the Database Initialization

During the schema generation portion of the installation process, ILux writes a log errors text file during database initialization. This file is called RESETDB.LOG, and is always stored on the root directory of the C: drive.

Here is an example of an error FREE database initialization:

iodbc Ver. 0.11 (Beta 2) Copyright 1995 FFE Software, Inc. This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions; type 'help ?' for details.

  1> 2> 
  (0 rows affected)
  1> 2> 
  (0 rows affected)
  1> 2> 
  (0 rows affected)
  1> 2> 
  (0 rows affected)

All errors may be initialization failures. The text of any errors should provide important clues to the problem. After correcting the problem, run the RESETDB.bat utility in the ILux \BIN directory, with the database user name and password as parameters. For example:

D:\Program Files\ILux\bin\RESETDB ilux iluxadmin

Then, check the C:\RESETDB.LOG to verify that all errors are resolved.

As a secondary verification, verify that the database contains over 30 tables. This is a strong indication that the installation is successful.

Starting and Stopping the ILux
Log Reporting Service

The ILux log reporting service is automatically started when installation is complete.

Stopping ILux As a
Service on Windows NT

Stop the ILux log reporting service from the Services applet in the Control Panel.

ILux Server Parameters

You can use these parameters for the ILux server.

To review the parameters, go to the directory where ilux.exe resides and run "ilux.exe -?"