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When you aempt to start an Endpoint Operations Management agent you might receive a message
that the agent is already running. Run ./bin/ep-agent.sh stop before starting the agent.
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Congure the agent in the agent.properties le, then start the service. See “Activate Endpoint
Operations Management Agent to vRealize Operations Manager Server Setup Properties,” on page 48.
Install the Agent on a Linux Platform from an Archive
You can install an Endpoint Operations Management agent on a Linux platform from a tar.gz archive.
By default, during installation, the setup process prompts you to provide conguration values. You can
automate this process by specifying the values in the agent properties le. If the installer detects values in
the properties le, it applies those values. Subsequent deployments also use the values specied in the agent
properties le.
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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Verify that the installation directory for the Endpoint Operations Management agent does not contain a
vRealize Hyperic agent installation.
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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 and extract the Endpoint Operations Management agent installation tar.gz le that is
appropriate for your Linux operating system.
Operating System
tar.gz Bundle to Download
64bit Operating System
epops-agent-x86-64-linux-version.tar.gz
32bit Operating System
epops-agent-x86-linux-version.tar.gz
No Arch
epops-agent-noJRE-version.tar.gz
2 Run cd agent name/bin to open the bin directory for the agent.
3 Run ep-agent.sh start.
The rst time that you install the agent, the command launches the setup process, unless you already
specied all the required conguration values in the agent properties le.
4 (Optional) Run ep-agent.sh status to view the current status of the agent, including the IP address
and port.
What to do next
Register the client certicate for the agent. See “Regenerate an Agent Client Certicate,” on page 66.
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