Running the event counter utility

You can run the event counter utility to assist you in determining the platform necessary to monitor servers with IBM® Sterling Control Center Monitor.

To run the event counter utility:

Download the IBM Sterling Control Center Monitor installer for your platform from IBM Support Portal.
Navigate to the location of the downloaded installer.
Start the installation:
- On Microsoft Windows, go to a cmd prompt and enter the following command:
```
CCInstall64.exe
```
- On non Microsoft Windows, go to a cmd shell and enter the following command:
```
sh CCInstall64.bin 
```
Enter the Installation directory.
After installation is complete, ignore the message about running configCC.
Navigate to installation directory/utils.

To run the utility, you can execute the batch file, runEventCounter.bat, or run one of the following scripts in installation directory/utils:

On Microsoft Windows, go to a cmd prompt and enter:
```
runEventCounter
```
On UNIX or zLinux, go to a cmd shell and enter:
```
sh runEventCounter.sh
```

You can also specify two optional parameters when you are running the Event Counter Utility as follows:

Parameter	Description
<dateRange>	Number of days to collect data. The default is 30 days. The maximum is 60 days.
<filename>	Input file that contains comma-separated values with connection information for Sterling Connect:Direct® Servers, one per line. The first line of the file can optionally contain the header information for each field. If <filename> contains blanks, enclose it in double quotation marks. The default file name is EventCounter.csv in the directory where the utility is run.

Parameter

Description

Number of days to collect data. The default is 30 days. The maximum is 60 days.

Input file that contains comma-separated values with connection information for Sterling Connect:Direct® Servers, one per line. The first line of the file can optionally contain the header information for each field. If <filename> contains blanks, enclose it in double quotation marks.

The default file name is EventCounter.csv in the directory where the utility is run.

The following code sample illustrates the use of these optional parameters:

runEventCounter 30 EventCounter.csv