Running Butler as a native, pre-built application
Downloading the app
Download Butler for your preferred operating systym.
Latest version is available on GitHub.
Installation steps
Installing Butler is quite simple.
The steps below outline the process.
Additional information is found on the Day 2 operations page.
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Decide where to install Butler
It is usually a good starting point to run Butler on the Sense server. If there are more than one server in the Sense cluster, Butler can be placed on the reload server (as the /createDir endpoint then can be used to create folders in which QVD and other files can be stored).On the other hand, you might want to keep the Sense servers as clean as possible (with respect to software running on them). If that is a priority you should install Butler on some other server.
The bottom line is that Butler can run on any server, as long as there is network connectivity to the Sense server(s).
It’s usually a good idea to keep 3rd party tools installed in the same directory tree, to maintenance as easy as possible.
A good place for Butler could bec:\tools\butlerord:\tools\butleron Windows, for example. -
Download Butler
Download the latest version from the releases page.
Make sure to get the binary file for your preferred operating system.Unzip the downloaded file, then copy or move the butler binary to the desired directory (e.g.
c:\tools\butler) and that’s it.
Tip
On Windows you must “unblock” the ZIP file before extracting the Butler binary from it.
This is basically a way to tell Windows that the ZIP is safe even though it was downloaded from Internet.
Right click on the ZIP file, then select Properties.
If there is an “Unblock” check box in the lower right part of the properties window you should click that box and hit OK.
Then unpack the ZIP file.
The macOS version of Butler is signed using Apple’s official app signing process.
This means you may see a warning the first time you start Butler, but after that there should be no more warnings.