Mac installs

Mac installs

Omniscope is available for Mac OS X 10.3 or later.  Requires Java 5 or later, usually already installed.

Both 32 and 64 bit operation is supported by the Mac installer, using 64-bit by default if available.

To get the Mac version of Omniscope, visit the download page [1] and be sure that "Mac OS X" is selected under "Operating System".

Limitations

Primarily because the Mac has a fundamentally different operating system from Windows PCs, there are some limitations in the current Mac version of Omniscope. 

• Multiple instances of Omniscope cannot be started, meaning that only one IOK file can be opened at a time.
• Some Microsoft Office interoperability is not present, such as importing/exporting to/from PowerPoint.

Installation instructions

1. Once downloaded
   
   
   Double-click the VisokioOmniscope.dmg
   
   
   
   
   
   The dmg will be verified by Mac OSX automatically on double-click.            
   
2. Move into Applications
   
   
   Drag Visokio Omniscope icon to Applications
   
   
   
   If you have an older version of Omniscope installed, choose Replace: 
   
   
   
   
3. Add to the Dock (optional)
   
   
   Open Applications in a Finder window and drag the Visokio Omniscope application icon onto the Dock:
   
   
   
4. Starting application,
   
   First time you start Omniscope you may be prompted to verify Visokio Omniscope application, choose Open: 
   
   

Omniscope Server on Mac OSX

Start Omniscope in the normal manner, e.g. using Finder locate "Visokio Omniscope" in Applications.

 

Once a valid server license has been activated the Settings Server menu will show menu items.

http://www.visokio.com/kb/activation-deactivation [2]

 

Select the Settings menu, select Server, select "Omniscope Server".

 

 

A warning message will be displayed saying that the Omniscope Server will take over the current Omniscope Window, select "OK, start anyway"

 

 

The Omniscope Server window will be displayed.

Mobile Web server will display a network error as it cannot use port 80 unless run as root.

Change the Mobile Web server ports for http to 8080 and https to 8443 by selecting Config in the Mobile Web Server section.

 

 

 

 

 

[3]

 

Omniscope Server is now running.

Place the IOK files in the "Sharing folder" which which can be  viewed using the urls listed in the "Serving at" fields.

 

Selecting Exit will shut down the server and return to Omniscope.

The following two command files will allow you to start Omniscope server directly, the first command file will run the server with the server control window GUI, the second command file will run the server without a control window.

 

OmniscopeEnterprise.command [3]

OmniscopeEnterprise-no-gui.command [4]

 

Open a terminal and change to the directory that you have placed the command files. Change the permissions so that it is executable.

chmod uog+x OmniscopeEnterprise.command

chmod uog+x OmniscopeEnterprise-no-gui.command 

 

You will need to Ctrl-Click on the command the first time to allow it to run as it will be blocked because the script is not signed, select Open.

 

 

 

 

If your browser is blocking the download use a texteditor to create the files as below.

 

NOTE: change the memory to match your system, this is set to 6Gb -Xmx6144m for use on a system with 8Gb of RAM installed 

 

Use a texteditor to save the following command as OmniscopeEnterprise.command

/Applications/Visokio\ Omniscope.app/Contents/Plugins/jre7/Contents/Home/jre/bin/java -Xmx6144m -XX:MaxPermSize=128M -XX:MinHeapFreeRatio=20 -XX:MaxHeapFreeRatio=50 -XX:NewRatio=8 -XX:+UseG1GC -Duser.dir=/Applications/Visokio\ Omniscope.app/Contents/Resources/Java -cp /Applications/Visokio\ Omniscope.app/Contents/Resources/Java/Main.jar:/Applications/Visokio\ Omniscope.app/Contents/Resources/Java/lib/mailapi.jar:/Applications/Visokio\ Omniscope.app/Contents/Resources/Java/lib/smtp.jar:/Applications/Visokio\ Omniscope.app/Contents/Resources/Java/lib/pop3.jar:/Applications/Visokio\ Omniscope.app/Contents/Resources/Java/lib/imap.jar:/Applications/Visokio\ Omniscope.app/Contents/Resources/Java/lib/dsn.jar:/Applications/Visokio\ Omniscope.app/Contents/Resources/Java/lib/activation.jar:/Applications/Visokio\ Omniscope.app/Contents/Resources/Java/plugins/bccrypto.jar com.visokio.ent.EntLaunch

 

To run in "headless" mode with no GUI interface add   -Djava.awt.headless=true to the parameters.

 

Use a texteditor to save the following command as OmniscopeEnterprise no gui.command 

 

/Applications/Visokio\ Omniscope.app/Contents/Plugins/jre7/Contents/Home/jre/bin/java -Xmx6144m -XX:MaxPermSize=128M -XX:MinHeapFreeRatio=20  -XX:MaxHeapFreeRatio=50  -XX:NewRatio=8  -XX:+UseG1GC  -Duser.dir=/Applications/Visokio\ Omniscope.app/Contents/Resources/Java -Djava.awt.headless=true -cp  /Applications/Visokio\ Omniscope.app/Contents/Resources/Java/Main.jar:/Applications/Visokio\ Omniscope.app/Contents/Resources/Java/lib/mailapi.jar:/Applications/Visokio\ Omniscope.app/Contents/Resources/Java/lib/smtp.jar:/Applications/Visokio\ Omniscope.app/Contents/Resources/Java/lib/pop3.jar:/Applications/Visokio\ Omniscope.app/Contents/Resources/Java/lib/imap.jar:/Applications/Visokio\ Omniscope.app/Contents/Resources/Java/lib/dsn.jar:/Applications/Visokio\ Omniscope.app/Contents/Resources/Java/lib/activation.jar:/Applications/Visokio\ Omniscope.app/Contents/Resources/Java/plugins/bccrypto.jar com.visokio.ent.EntLaunch