eG Manager Installation

The eG manager is responsible for coordinating the functioning of the agents, analyzing the reports from the agents to determine whether any problems exist, and for handling user requests to eG Enterprise. The main functions of the manager are discovery of the target infrastructure, agent specification and control, database storage, threshold computation, alarm correlation, and user interactions.

The procedure for installing the eG manager differs depending on the operating system environment being used on the server on which the manager is to be installed.

• For detailed instructions of installing and configuring the manager on Windows operating systems, refer to eG Manager on Windows.
• For detailed instructions of installing and configuring the manager on Unix operating systems, refer to eG Manager on Linux.

Make sure that the pre-requisites given in the Pre-requisites for Installing eG Manager have been fulfilled before you start installing the eG manager.