Deployment Guide

Installing and Running the vFoglight Agent Manager (FglAM) 103
Installing the vFoglight Agent Manager
• certCommonName : This parameter is optional. Including this parameter causes a
certificate with a common name (host name) different than the one reported by
the Management Server to be accepted. Type the common name contained in the
Management Server’s certificate as the
certCommonName value.
Using the Silent vFoglight Agent Manager Installer
You can use the silent installer in situations where you want to install the vFoglight
Agent Manager non-interactively—for example, to install the vFoglight Agent Manager
from the command line onto a remote, headless machine.
To install the vFoglight Agent Manager using the silent installer:
1 If you are installing onto a remote machine, log in to the target machine (for
example, using SSH).
2 Launch a command window on the target machine and navigate to the directory
to which you downloaded the installer.
3 Run the installer executable with the --silent option. All desired installation
parameters must be included in the command with the
--silent option, using the
format
fglam-windows-[ia32|x64].exe --silent --fms <url_and_other_parameters> --
installdir <install_dirirectory_path>
where <url_and_other_parameters> is a comma-separated list of parameters for
configuring the connection to a vFoglight Management Server and
<install_dirirectory_path> is the full path to the directory where you want to
install the vFoglight Agent Manager. See “Configuring vFoglight Management
Server URLs from the Command Line” on page 101 for a description of the
required
url parameter and the other optional parameters for the --fms option.
You can provide the
--fms option multiple times to configure the connection to
more than one Management Server at once.
Note The --installdir option is required, but the --fms option is not.
Messages appear in the command window while the installer starts. Installer files
are extracted to the location you specified in the
--installdir parameter and the
installer runs.
Note Install the vFoglight Agent Manager on each host that you would like to monitor.