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prompt$ ./tcruntime-instance.sh create -i /home/tcs/instances myserver
6. Execute the tcruntime-ctl.sh command to start the new tc Runtime instance. Use the -n option to specify the
directory in which you created the instance. For example:
prompt$ ./tcruntime-ctl.sh -n /home/tcs/instances myserver start
7. Confirm that the tc Runtime instance is running by invoking its Welcome page in a browser. Use the URL
http://host:8080, where host is the name or IP address of the computer on which the tc Runtime instance is running
(localhost if local).
What to do next
This section provides minimal information about how to get started with this vFabric component; for detailed information, see
the component-specific documentation by clicking on the vFabric tc Server X.X link in the left frame of this Documentation
Center.
Post-Installation Instructions for Spring Insight Operations (Agent and Dashboard)
The yum install of Spring Insight Operations (both the agent and dashboard) simply installs Insight templates into the vFabric tc
Server installation. If you have not previously installed vFabric tc Server, then the Spring Insight installation also automatically
installs tc Server. The yum install does not, however, create a tc Runtime instance, so you must manually create one before you
can use Insight.
This section describes the simplest and quickest way to get Spring Insight Operations up and running. It describes how to
create a tc Runtime instance that includes the Spring Insight dashboard on one RHEL VM, and then how to create a tc Runtime
instance that includes the Spring Insight agent on a different RHEL VM, and to ensure that the agent can communicate with the
dashboard.
Procedure
On the RHEL VM on which you want to run the Spring Insight dashboard:
1. If you have not already done so, download and install a JDK or JRE, version 1.6.
2. Set the JAVA_HOME environment variable of the tc-server user to point to the JDK installation and update the PATH
environment variable to point to the JAVA_HOME/bin directory.
3. Log in to the RHEL VM on which you want to run the Spring Insight dashboard as the root user, and then su to the tc-
server user:
prompt# su - tc-server
You cannot login directly as the tc-server user because interactive login for the tc-server user has been disabled.
4. Open a terminal window and change to the /opt/vmware/vfabric-tc-server-standard directory:
prompt$ cd /opt/vmware/vfabric-tc-server-standard
5. Execute the tcruntime-instance.sh to create a new tc Runtime instance that uses the insight-dashboard
template. Use the -i option to specify the full pathname of the directory in which the new instance will be created; be sure
the tc-server user can write to this directory. For example:
prompt$ ./tcruntime-instance.sh create mydashboard -i /home/tcs/instances -t insight-dashboard \
-p insight-dashboard.dashboard.jms.bind.uri=tcp://myDashboardServer:21234
Set myDashboardServer to the hostname or IP address of the RHEL VM on which you are creating the Spring Insight
dashboard.