If you use the Mac, you may have some problems with making dbWatch Monitor (ie. the UI) work on your machine. There is an easy solution
and there is a difficult one. I will not go into detail about the difficult one, but the basic outline is:
- Install the software on a *nix machine
- Copy the installation to your Mac
- Make sure you have the right Java runtime environment (JRE) on your Mac
- Edit the shell script that launches dbWatch to use your JRE
A much easier solution is to install the software, Server and Monitor, on a *nix server and then use ssh and X to run the Monitor software.
$ ssh -X <hostname> -l <user> -p <port> \
/usr/local/dbWatch8.2/dbWatchMonitor8.2
Just substitute <hostname>, <user>, and <port> with the hostname of your dbWatch Server machine, the username of a user on that very same server, and the port that ssh listens on respectively.
Note: I always move sshd off 22 and over to one of the non-reserved ports, ie. higher than 1024. That is why I specify the port. If your sshd runs on the default port, you can leave -p <port> out off the command .
