Install and Configure Statistics Server

You can install Statistics Server using the IDOL installer, or by downloading and extracting the Statistics Server zip package.

To install Statistics Server as a Windows service, run statsserver.exe -install at the command prompt. To uninstall the service, run statsserver.exe -uninstall. For more information about these options, refer to the IDOL Getting Started Guide.

To configure basic settings

  1. Open the Statistics Server configuration file (the default file name is statsserver.cfg).
  2. In the [License] section, specify the host name or IP address, and ACI port of your License Server. For a list of standard [License] parameters, see License Configuration Parameters.
  3. If you are recording statistics from multiple IDOL components, you must specify the IDOL information in the [IDOLStatistics] section of the Statistics Server configuration file. For more information, see Record Statistics from Multiple IDOL Servers.
  4. In the [Server] section, specify which port receives events, and which clients can send events to Statistics Server. For more information, see Statistics Server Parameters.
  5. Save the configuration file.