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Before you start, get familiar with the terminology used throghout Lithium.

Lithium Core - Performs the monitoring, reporting and alerting.

Lithium Console - The native Mac OS X client for Lithium.

Customer - The top-level container for all your monitoring data.

Device - A physical and logical node on your network. E.g router, switch or server.

Metric - A value being monitored by Lithium, e.g Free Bytes on a Storage Resource or Input Utilisation on a Netork Interface.

Trigger - A threshold or condition that defines when an alert should be raised. Lithium has many default Triggers applied out-of-the-box.

Incident - An alert raised when the condition specified by a Trigger is present in a Metric being monitored by Lithium. E.g. Warning Incident raised when CPU usage exceed 90%.

Step by Step

Download Lithium Core

Download the latest version of the Lithium Core installer here. The Lithium Core disk image includes the Lithium Core Installer package, Lithium Core Admin.app and Lithium Console.app.

Run Lithium Core Installer

Run the Lithium Core Installer package included in the Lithium Core disk image. This can be run from the disk image itself. The standard Mac OS X Installer application will start and guide you through the installation of Lithium Core.

Selecting Customize during the installation will allow you to select the components that are installed. This is not recommnended unless you are an advanced user that understand how Lithium Core works.

Lithium Core must be installed on the System Drive.

Run Lithium Core Admin.app

Go to your Applications Folder and double click on the newly installed Lithium Core Admin.app. Lithium Core Admin is the local administration utility for Lithium Core.

Complete Initial Setup

Lithium Core Admin will present an Initial Setup Assistant if the local installation of Lithium Core has not yet been configured. The Setup Assistant will configure the following: Customer Name, Administrator Username and Password, Database Settings and Email and iPhone Notifications.. Once you have completed the Lithium Core Initial Setup Assistant, your Lithium Core deployment is ready for use.

Run Lithium Console.app

Run Lithium Console.app from the Applications folder on the machine where you installed Lithium Core. Or, if you installed Lithium Core on another machine, download Lithium Console here and install it on your workstation.

If you run Lithium Console from the same machine as Lithium Core or from another machine on the same LAN then Lithium Console should automatically find your Lithium Core deployment using Bonjour auto-discovery.

Console will prompt you for a username and password to log into each of the Lithium Core deployments configured or discovered on your local network.

To manually add the Core Deployment to Lithium Console, click on Lithium Console -> Preferences in the menu bar to display the preferences window where a Lithium Core deployment can be specified manually. In the 'Deployments' tab of the Preferences window, click on the '+' button in the bottom-left of the window to add a new Lithium Core deployent. A sheet will be shown where you can enter the Address (IP Address or Hostname) of the host where Lithium Core is installed. Do not change the port number unless you have have a customized installation of Lithium Core running on a non-standard port.

Add Devices to monitor...

Lithium Console will present the Lithium Setup Assistant when it connects to a Lithium Core deployment that currently has no monitored devices configured. The Lithium Setup Assistant will guide you through adding your first set of Devices to be monitored by Lithium.

You can manually add devices later by clicking on the '+' button at the bottom-left of the Lithium Console window and selecting 'New Device At Location' and an appropriate Location for the device. New Locations can also be defined through the same pop-up menu that appears when the '+' button is clicked.

Continue to Adding Devices Tutorials >>