Once you've installed VirtaMove Source Monitor on the source machine and prepared a Source Monitor config file, you can enable Source Monitor.

To run Source Monitor, you must first start the VirtaMove Source Agent service on the source machine. The VirtaMove Source Agent service is responsible for remote Source Monitor management and storing paths tracked by Source Monitor.

To Start the VirtaMove Agent Service

On the source machine, run the following command:

To Enable VirtaMove Source Monitor

Run the following command:

Example:

Suppose C:\myapps\x86\debug\Monitor\myconfig.xml contains the following content:

Using this example, Source Monitor will monitor any newly started processes; in this case, either the sqlwriter service executable "C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\90\Shared\sqlwriter.exe" or a process whose image path contains the string "Apache".

Source Monitor will send each tracked path to VirtaMove Source Agent in real time. VirtaMove Source Agent stores these paths in an SQLite database. The database's default path is <VirtaMove Install Path>\Monitor\Monitor.db.