Installing Windows binary

Before you can install Big Sister on a Windows system you need the utilitiesInstSrv.exe and SrvAny.exe. These two utilities are part of the NT Resource Kit. Microsoft's license restricts us from distributing the tools with Big Sister. Anyway, if you do not have a copy of the Resource Kit you will probably be able to find them via Altavista (search for inststrv.exe onhttp://www.altavista.com/).

Once you successfully located your copy of InstSrv and SrvAny you can place them somewhere in the path, e.g. in your system32 directory in your Windows directory.

You are now ready for unpacking the zip archive. Place the resulting bigsister directory wherever you like and then double click the bin/install32.exe executable. The tasks performed by install32 are:

Now start the Service Manager and decide which services your Windows box should start on boot. Three Big Sister services are registered:

The server must run at least bbd and bsmon, while on agent systems only the agent is needed. Do not be irritated by the strange names listed in the service manager - during the next reboot Windows will adjust them.