MicroStrategy Installation Wizard: MicroStrategy Health Center Configuration

MicroStrategy Health Center can help you prevent, diagnose, and fix problems in your MicroStrategy system.  It detects known problems and provides an immediate solution. Health Center can email a system administrator if it encounters a problem. In cases where Health Center cannot fix a problem immediately, it enables you to bundle relevant system information, such as log files, into a diagnostic package and transmit the package to MicroStrategy Technical Support for review and troubleshooting.

As part of a MicroStrategy installation, you can designate this machine as a Health Agent. After you complete the MicroStrategy installation, you can further define this machine as a Master Health Agent through the use of the MicroStrategy Configuration Wizard. For information about configuring and using Health Center, see the System Administration Help.

To define the machine as a Health Agent, provide the following information:

• Port: Type the port number to use to connect to the Master Health Agent machine. The default port is 44440.
• Access Code: Type the access code that must be provided by Health Center to access this Health Agent. If you leave this field blank, no access code is required to access this Health Agent.
• UNIX Daemon: Select this check box to configure this Health Agent as a daemon, so that the Health Agent process is constantly running in the background. This requires you to configure the Health Agent using an account that has root access privileges to the machine. If you do not have root access to the machine, clear this check box. This configures the Health Agent as an application. In this case, be careful not to stop the Health Agent process, so that the machine can remain part of the Health Center system at all times.