6.3

Prerequisites
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Verify that you have sucient privileges to deploy an Endpoint Operations Management agent. You
must have vRealize Operations Manager user credentials that include a role that allows you to install
Endpoint Operations Management agents. See “Roles and Privileges in vRealize Operations Manager,”
on page 74.
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If you plan to run ICMP checks, you must install the Endpoint Operations Management agent with root
privileges.
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To congure the agent to use a keystore that you manage yourself for SSL communication, set up a JKS-
format keystore for the agent on its host and congure the agent to use its SSL certicate. Note the full
path to the keystore, and its password. You must specify this data in the agent agent.properties le.
Verify that the agent keystore password and the private key password are identical.
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If you are installing a non-JRE package, dene the agent HQ_JAVA_HOME location.
Endpoint Operations Management platform-specic installers include JRE 1.8.x. Platform-independent
installers do not. Depending on your environment and the installer you use, you might need to dene
the location of the JRE to ensure that the agent can nd the JRE to use. See “Conguring JRE Locations
for Endpoint Operations Management Components,” on page 46.
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If you are installing a non-JRE package, verify that you are using the latest Java version. You might be
exposed to security risks with earlier versions of Java.
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Verify that the installation directory for the Endpoint Operations Management agent does not contain a
vRealize Hyperic agent installation.
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If you are using the noarch installation, verify that a JDK or JRE is installed on the platform.
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Verify that you use only ASCII characters when specifying the agent installation path. If you want to
use non-ASCII characters, you must set the encoding of the Linux machine and SSH client application
to UTF-8.
Procedure
1 Download the appropriate RPM bundle to the target machine.
Operating System RPM Bundle to Download
64bit Operating System
epops-agent-x86-64-linux-version.rpm
32bit Operating System
epops-agent-x86-linux-version.rpm
No Arch
epops-agent-noarch-linux-version.rpm
2 Open an SSH connection using root credentials.
3 Run rpm -i epops-agent-Arch-linux-version.rpm to install the agent on the platform that the agent
will monitor, where Arch is the name of the archive and version is the version number.
The Endpoint Operations Management agent is installed, and the service is congured to start at boot.
What to do next
Before you start the service, verify that the epops user credentials include any permissions that are required
to enable your plug-ins to discover and monitor their applications, then perform one of the following
processes.
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Run service epops-agent start to start the epops-agent service.
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If you installed the Endpoint Operations Management agent on a machine running SuSE 12.x, start the
Endpoint Operations Management agent by running the [EP Ops Home]/bin/ep-agent.sh start
command.
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