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16Aug/110

Big Brother client installation on UNIX/Linux

Following procedure explains the steps for installing Big Brother client on UNIX/Linux servers and information about all the supported files. I could not really find this anywhere easily broke down, I hope this helps a few...

Installation Steps
Create user bb on the server to be monitored.Assign 1984 uid to the Big Brother user.

useradd -u 1984 -c "Big Brother monitoring" bb

Copy the latest BB client tar file from your repository to bb home directory of the monitored server.

su - bb
scp root@yourrepo:/home/bb/software/BBCLT-aix6.1-bbc4.30-bbpe.tar .

Decompress the tar file in the bb home directory

In the bb home directory
tar -xvf BBCLT-aix6.1-bbc4.30-bbpe.tar

Exit from bb home directory as the BB client should be installed using root account.
From root user go to /home/bb/bbc4.30-bbpe/install and execute bbconfig file.After executing bbconfig file, it will ask to accept the License agreement.
After accepting the License agreement, the installation process will ask to enter a few details.

OS [aix] is the default so you can hit enter directly
It will ask for the userid for Big Brother which will be "bb".

The installation process will add a service in /etc/init.d which will start at boot.

At this point the BB client is not started as bb-hosts file is missing or empty.

Information about bb-hosts file
The bb-hosts file in present in /home/bb/bbc4.30-bbpe/etc.This file holds the information about the host and the BBDisplay,BBPAGER and BBNET.
BBDISPLAY is the server which will display all the monitored servers.
BBPAGER is the server which sends email alerts.
BBNET is the server which performa all Network tests.

Sample bb-hosts file.If the first line or name of the monitored host does not match the entry in the bb-hosts file then the bb client will not start.

0.0.0.0         monitoredsrv #must name uname -n
0.0.0.0         displaysrv # BBNET BBDISPLAY BBPAGER

Once all the changes are done then we are good to start the BB client.
The entry of the monitored server in bb-hosts file should also match with the entry in BB server's bb-hosts file.

I forgot to mention that to start and stop BB you can use the following:

su - bb -c "cd /home/bb/bbc4.30-bbpe;./runbb.sh start"

su - bb -c "cd /home/bb/bbc4.30-bbpe;./runbb.sh stop"

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15Aug/080

Installing multiple language packs for Office SharePoint Server 2007

Yes, I do some MOSS 2K7 stuff too.  By default you MOSS install will come in English if like me you get the north American releases. But in world of multinational companies, displaying information in several languages is somehow a must!

Here is what you want to do to get MOSS to be multilingual.

First, you want to check that you meet the prerequisite: Additional Language File Support.

  1. On your front-end Web server, click Start, point to Settings and then Control Panel, and then click Regional and Language Options.
  2. In the Regional and Language Options dialog box, on the Languages tab, in the Supplemental Language Support section, select one or both of the following check boxes:
    Install files for complex script and right-to-left languages
    Install files for East Asian languages
  3. Click OK in the dialog box that alerts you that additional disk space is required for the files.
  4. Click OK to install the additional language files.
  5. When prompted, insert your Windows Server 2003 product disc or provide the location of your Windows Server 2003 installation files.
  6. When prompted to restart your computer, click Yes.

Then you want to install the following components in the following order for each language:

(Use the change language drop down to choose different language’s language pack download)

  1. WSS Language pack (SharePointLanguagePack.exe)
  2. WSS Language pack SP1 (SharePoint.exe)
  3. MOSS Language pack ( extract *.IMG file)
  4. MOSS Language pack SP1 (officelp2007sp1-kb936982-fullfile-it-it.exe)

Warning and remarks! The only bad thing about all this is that you need to know all this before you start creating Site Collections because you can install new site in languages you later installed. I have learned that!

Also you may need to update WSS to SP1 prior going to step 2 as described in kb945967. Find it here.

The other bad thing about SharePoint is that you have to do the install on each "role" server of the farm. I wish there will be some central update managemet for SharePoint sometime soon!

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