Zephyr Enterprise 7.18.0 : Installation and Usage of ZBots on Linux/MacOS

ZBots can be installed on MacOSX, Solaris or Linux.
Below is an example of an installation on Ubuntu Linux. The others are very similar.
There are steps below that demonstrate how you can make ZBots autostart.

Pre-requisites

You must have JDK 8 or higher for ZBot to run: Download
The ZBot can be downloaded from: http://<your_zephyr_server>/zephyr/zbot

1. Click on the Download ZBot link above and download the following file: zbot.unix.tar.gz

2. Open the archive with unzipping software (in this case Archive Manager on Ubuntu Linux)

3. Extract this folder to a convenient location where the ZBot will be installed. ZBot will be running from this folder.

4. In this case, /usr/local/zephyr has been chosen as seen below.

5. Open your favorite editor (gedit in this case), and open $ZBOT_EXTRACTION_FOLDER/zbot/conf/zbot.properties

6. Modify zephyrServerURL to point to your zephyr server (as highlighted) and save the property file.

7. Open a terminal window and navigate to $ZBOT_EXTRACTION_FOLDER/zbot and use the following to administer:

./bin/zbot.sh start - To Start the zbot in background

./bin/zbot.sh status - To Check the status of ZBot

./bin/zbot.sh stop - To Stop the zbot

./bin/zbot.sh console - To run zbot in interactive mode

8. Log files are in $ZBOT_EXTRACTION_FOLDER/zbot/logs

Autostarting ZBots on UNIX

INSTALLATION
As root,
1. Create a symlink
        ln -s /usr/local/zephyr/zbot/bin/zbot.sh /etc/init.d/zbot
2. make sure symlink works
        cd /etc/init.d/
        ./zbot console
3. run following command
        cd /etc/init.d
        update-rc.d zbot start 20 2 3 4 5 . stop 20 0 1 6 .
        
        OUTPUT
        Adding system startup for /etc/init.d/zbot ...  
        /etc/rc0.d/K20myapp -> ../init.d/myapp  
        /etc/rc1.d/K20myapp -> ../init.d/myapp  
        /etc/rc6.d/K20myapp -> ../init.d/myapp  
        /etc/rc2.d/S20myapp -> ../init.d/myapp  
        /etc/rc3.d/S20myapp -> ../init.d/myapp  
        /etc/rc4.d/S20myapp -> ../init.d/myapp  
        /etc/rc5.d/S20myapp -> ../init.d/myapp
4. reboot your machine to check if it works
        shutdown -r now



UNINSTALLATION
1. Remove the run levels
        update-rc.d -f zbot remove

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