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Verify that the View Connection Server administrative user that you provide with the installation
command has the Agent Registration Administrators or Administrators role in View Administrator.
Specifically, the Register Agent privilege is required to register View Agent with View Connection
Server. Agent Registration Administrators is a restricted role that provides this minimum privilege.
Procedure
1 Download the View Agent for Linux installer file from the VMware download site at
https://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/downloads.
Under Desktop & End-User Computing, select the VMware Horizon 6 download, which includes the
View Agent for Linux installer.
The installer filename is VMware-viewagent-linux-x86_64-y.y.y-xxxxxxx.tar for 64-bit Linux or
VMware-viewagent-linux-y.y.y-xxxxxxx.tar for 34-bit Linux, where y.y.y is the version number and
xxxxxxx is the build number.
2 Unpack the tarball for your Linux distribution on the guest operating system.
For example:
tar -xvf <View Agent tar ball>
3 Navigate to the tar ball folder.
4 Run the install_viewagent.sh script to install View Agent.
For example:
sudo ./install_viewagent.sh -b mybroker.mydomain.com -d mydomain.com -u administrator -p
password
The -b parameter specifies the View Connection Server instance to which the Linux machine is
registered. You can use an FQDN or IP address with the -b parameter.
The -d, -u, and -p parameters specify the domain, user name, and password of the View administrator
user. In the password, be sure to escape special characters such as $. For example: ab\$cdef
If you do not type the -p parameter with the command, you are prompted to provide the password
after you enter the command. When you type the password at the prompt, the text is hidden.
By default, the hostname of the Linux machine is used to register the machine. You can specify a
different machine name with the -n parameter.
5 Restart or log out of the guest operating system.
This step ensures that the graphics UI changes configured by View Agent take effect on the machine.
The install_viewagent.sh script installs the View Agent software on the Linux virtual machine. The script
registers the machine with View Connection Server.
The viewagent service is started on the Linux virtual machine. You can verify that the service is started by
running the #service viewagent status command.
If an Agent Registration Failed message appears, see “Troubleshooting View Agent Registration Failure
for a Linux Machine,” on page 44.
If another View Agent issue occurs, see “Troubleshooting Horizon 6 for Linux,” on page 43.
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