SpyGlass Monitoring Core Application
Known issue on some version of ie when you try to login to a server it does not auto login. I am working to reproduce the issue to figure out which IE setting needs to be changed.




  • SpyGlass Monitoring Installer Windows [exe] v2010.0810
    • This will install the database, tomcat and spyglass monitoring on your windows system, it can still connect to agents running other operating systems.

    Once installed the user is admin/admin. When you signin create a real users that will lock out the original admin account and then proceed to configure your system.
    Supported in Java 1.6+ all platforms.

  • SpyGlass Monitoring Installer Unix/Linux [zip] v2010.0810
    • Enclosed is a version of spyglass installer for Linux/Unix.
    You will need to install postgresql first. PostgreSQL Installation Instructions Then run the following command. This will create the database.
    /usr/lib/postgresql/8.3/bin
    sudo -u postgres createdb spyglass

    In the instructions replace "your password" with "spyg!lAs23s"

    Please unzip the zip file spyglass_installer.zip. This is usually done with "unzip spyglass_linux.zip"
    chmod 500 *.sh
    ./spyglass_install.sh

    There are two scripts one is spyglass_install.sh and spyglass_agent_install.sh depending what you want to install.

    After that it will give you instructions for starting up tomcat and login instructions.

  • SpyGlass Monitoring Agent WebApp [war] v2010.0810
    • This is the same war that is used for the master and client agents. If you drop this war in your tomcat webapp folder it will install.


    If you are installing a Client -
  • Edit the file webapps/spyglass/META-INF/settings.ini
  • Change the following entries master_url=http\://127.0.0.1\:8080/spyglass/ to be the url of the master server
  • local_port=8080 if you are not running tomcat on port 8080

    If you are installing a Master Server -
  • Edit the file webapps/spyglass/META-INF/settings.ini
    master_mode=true
  • copy postgresql.jar from the webapps/spyglass/WEB-INF/lib folder to the tomcat/lib folder
  • If running postgres on another server edit webapps/spyglass/META-INF/context.xml to point to that server and check out the FAQ Allowing remote connections Postgresql

    Supported in Java 1.5+ all platforms.