Installing Sentinel

How to:

Sentinel is delivered as a self-executable .jar file, which is executed and run directly from a command prompt. The components required for Sentinel to run will be installed in the location where the .jar file is running from during the initial execution.

Procedure: How to Install Sentinel

  1. Download the sentinel-1.2.jar file and save it to an empty directory on your system.

    This directory will become the Sentinel home directory.

  2. Open a Command Prompt window and navigate to the Sentinel home directory where the .jar file has been saved.
  3. Enter the following command:
    java -jar sentinel-1.2.jar

    When the start sequence has completed, the following message displays:

    On the file system, the following directories have been created during the initial execution of the .jar file.

    Directory

    Description

    <Sentinel_Home>\.extract

    Runtime for Sentinel/SPOG.

    <Sentinel_Home>\logs

    Log files for Sentinel/SPOG.

    \Users\<user>\spog

    Generated when first accessing the SPOG user interface and contains SPOG graph, property files, and other runtime artifacts.

    In this case, <Sentinel_Home> is the location from where the .jar file was executed and <user> is the system user who extracted the file.

  4. Stop Sentinel by pressing Ctrl+C in the Command Prompt window and start it again, by re-executing the following command:
    java -jar sentinel-1.2.jar

    Sentinel and Single Pane of Glass (SPOG) are now ready to be used.

  5. Access the Sentinel web user interface by opening a Google Chrome browser and entering the following URL:
    http://host:8080

    where:

    host

    Is the machine/IP where Sentinel and SPOG have been installed.

    A Login screen opens, as shown in the following image.

  6. Log in using admin as the default user name and admin as the default password.

    The initial screen, Connectivity - At a Glance, is displayed indicating that SPOG is ready for use, as shown in the following image.