6.3

Encrypt Endpoint Operations Management Agent Property Values
After you have installed anEndpoint Operations Management agent, you can use it to add encrypted values
to the agent.properties le to enable silent installation.
For example, to specify the user password, you can run ./bin/ep-agent.sh set-property
agent.setup.serverPword serverPasswordValue to add the following line to the agent.properties le.
agent.setup.serverPword = ENC(4FyUf6m/c5i+RriaNpSEQ1WKGb4y
+Dhp7213XQiyvtwI4tMlbGJfZMBPG23KnsUWu3OKrW35gB+Ms20snM4TDg==)
The key that was used to encrypt the value is saved in AgentHome/conf/agent.scu. If you encrypt other
values, the key that was used to encrypt the rst value is used.
Prerequisites
Verify that the Endpoint Operations Management agent can access AgentHome/conf/agent.scu. Following
the encryption of any agent-to-server connection properties, the agent must be able to access this le to start.
Procedure
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Open a command prompt and run ./bin/ep-agent.sh set-property agent.setup.propertyName
propertyValue.
The key that was used to encrypt the value is saved in AgentHome/conf/agent.scu.
What to do next
If your agent deployment strategy involves distributing a standard agent.properties le to all agents, you
must also distribute agent.scu. See “Install Multiple Endpoint Operations Management Agents
Simultaneously,” on page 77.
Adding Properties to the agent.properties File
You must add any properties that you want to use that are not included in the default agent.properties le.
Following is a list of the available properties.
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agent.keystore.alias Property on page 61
This property congures the name of the user-managed keystore for the agent for agents congured
for unidirectional communication with the vRealize Operations Manager server.
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agent.keystore.password Property on page 61
This property congures the password for an Endpoint Operations Management agent's SSL keystore.
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agent.keystore.path Property on page 61
This property congures the location of a Endpoint Operations Management agent's SSL keystore.
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agent.listenPort Property on page 62
This property species the port where the Endpoint Operations Management agent listens to receive
communication from the vRealize Operations Manager server.
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agent.logDir Property on page 62
You can add this property to the agent.properties le to specify the directory where the
Endpoint Operations Management agent writes its log le. If you do not specify a fully qualied path,
agent.logDir is evaluated relative to the agent installation directory.
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agent.logFile Property on page 62
The path and name of the agent log le.
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agent.logLevel Property on page 62
The level of detail of the messages the agent writes to the log le.
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