Solaris and Linux Installation Instructions

J2SE Installation

If you have not already downloaded and installed the J2SE 5.0 JDK, please do so now. Follow the J2SE 5.0 JDK download and installation instructions. Once you have a working J2SE 5.0 JDK installation, continue with jvmstat Tools Installation. Note that the J2SE 5.0 JRE does not contain the class files need to run the jvmstat 3.0 tools. You must download the J2SE 5.0 JDK to run the jvmstat 3.0 tools.

jvmstat Tools Installation

The jvmstat tools distribution is released in both tar and zip formats. There is a single distribution for all supported platforms. These instructions will guide you though the installation process using the Korn Shell on Solaris, Linux, and for the Korn Shell in the MKS Tookit for Windows. Every effort has been made to use shell commands that are compatible with both the Bourne and Korn shells. You may need to adapt these instructions to your preferred shell.

To use the tar archive, you must have a tar executable on your system. Similarly, to use the zip format, you need to have an unzip executable on your system. The jar command can be used in place of the unzip command, as jar files are an extension of zip archives. In any case, these instructions assume that the necessary executable can be found in a directory included in the user's PATH environment variable.

In the following instructions, the > character represents the shell's command prompt and the commands you enter to the shell are indicated by text typeset in bold. These instructions will also contain references to JVMSTAT_HOME and JAVA_HOME strings. Although these appear to be environment variables at first glance, they are intended to be substituted with the paths to the installation directories for jvmstat and the Java 2 JDK, respectively. You may choose to create environment variables with these names; however, they are not required for proper installation or operation of the jvmstat tools.