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Table 7‑1. Supported Operating Systems for the Endpoint Operations Management Agent (Continued)
Operating System Processor Architecture JVM
Solaris 10, 11 x86_64, SPARC Oracle Java SE7
AIX 6.1, 7.1 Power PC IBM Java SE7
VMware Photon Linux 1. 0 x86_64 Open JDK 1.8.0_72-BLFS
Oracle Linux versions 5, 6, 7 x86_64, x86_32 Open JDK Runtime Environment 1.7
Selecting an Agent Installer Package
The Endpoint Operations Management agent installation les are included in the
vRealize Operations Manager installation package.
You can install the Endpoint Operations Management agent from a tar.gz or .zip archive, or from an
operating system-specic installer for Windows or for Linux-like systems that support RPM.
Note that when you install a non-JRE version of Endpoint Operations Management agent, to avoid being
exposed to security risks related to earlier versions of Java, VMware recommends that you only use the
latest Java version.
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Install the Agent on a Linux Platform from an RPM Package on page 40
You can install the Endpoint Operations Management agent from a RedHat Package Manager (RPM)
package. The agent in the noarchpackage does not include a JRE.
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Install the Agent on a Linux Platform from an Archive on page 42
You can install an Endpoint Operations Management agent on a Linux platform from a tar.gz archive.
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Install the Agent on a Windows Platform from an Archive on page 43
You can install an Endpoint Operations Management agent on a Windows platform from a .zip le.
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Install the Agent on a Windows Platform Using the Windows Installer on page 43
You can install the Endpoint Operations Management agent on a Windows platform using a Windows
installer.
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Installing an Endpoint Operations Management Agent Silently on a Windows Machine on page 44
You can install an Endpoint Operations Management agent on a Windows machine using silent or
very silent installation.
Install the Agent on a Linux Platform from an RPM Package
You can install the Endpoint Operations Management agent from a RedHat Package Manager (RPM)
package. The agent in the noarchpackage does not include a JRE.
Agent-only archives are useful when you deploy agents to a large number of platforms with various
operating systems and architectures. Agent archives are available for Windows and UNIX-like
environments, with and without built-in JREs.
The RPM performs the following actions:
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Creates a user and group named epops if they do not exist. The user is a service account that is locked
and you cannot log into it.
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Installs the agent les into /opt/vmware/epops-agent.
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Installs an init script to /etc/init.d/epops-agent.
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Adds the init script to chkconfig and sets it to on for run levels 2, 3, 4, and 5.
If you have multiple agents to install, see “Install Multiple Endpoint Operations Management Agents
Simultaneously,” on page 71.
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