Install question and auto-start?

I am trying to get ManageEngine Eventlog Analyzer installed properly. I am using Linux Mint. I installed it as SU so that I could choose to run it as a service. I had it working then it stopped receiving data. I rebooted and it failed to start. I could not connect to the Dashboard on port 8400 but could ping the computer. When I manually started it and then was able to access the Dashboard, I no longer had any hosts and I couldn't add any because it kept claiming that ports 513 & 514 were in use. It seems that something was running and using those ports but I couldn't find out what when using netstat. I am puzzled about that because I only setup the hosts to use 514. I suppose that must mean that another instance of the analyzer was listening on those ports? At this point I have uninstalled it and am not sure what to do next. I read the part about running it as Root would prevent other users from running it. Does that apply to the way I installed it?

Also, is it supposed to auto-start or is it necessary to do something to get that to happen. I think there is now a different way to configure what programs run on startup but I am not real familiar with that.

Side note. I tried to install this on Fedora but the installer wouldn't even run so I gave up on it. Is there another or better OS choice, other than Windows?