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If you already have an Endpoint Operations Management agent installed on the machine, verify that it
is not running.
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Verify that you do not have any Endpoint Operations Management or vRealize Hyperic agent installed
on your environment before running the agent Windows installer.
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You must know the user name and password for the vRealize Operations Manager, the
vRealize Operations Manager server address (FQDN), and the server certicate thumbprint value. You
can see additional information about the certicate thumbprint in the procedure.
Procedure
1 Download the Windows installation EXE le that is appropriate for your Windows platform.
Operating System RPM Bundle to Download
64bit Operating System
epops-agent-x86-64-win-version.exe
32bit Operating System
epops-agent-x86-win-version.exe
2 Double-click the le to open the installation wizard.
3 Complete the steps in the installation wizard.
Verify that the user and system locales are identical, and that the installation path contains only
characters that are part of the system locale's code page. You can set user and system locales in the
Regional Options or Regional Seings control panel.
Note the following information related to dening the server certicate thumbprint.
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The server certicate thumbprint is required to run a silent installation.
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Either the SHA1 or SHA256 algorithm can be used for the thumbprint.
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By default, the vRealize Operations Manager server generates a self-signed CA certicate that is
used to sign the certicate of all the nodes in the cluster. In this case, the thumbprint must be the
thumbprint of the CA certicate, to allow for the agent to communicate with all nodes.
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As a vRealize Operations Manager administrator, you can import a custom certicate instead of
using the default. In this instance, you must specify a thumbprint corresponding to that certicate
as the value of this property.
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To view the certicate thumbprint value, log into the vRealize Operations Manager Administration
interface at https://IP Address/admin and click the SSL  icon located on the right of the
menu bar. Unless you replaced the original certicate with a custom certicate, the second
thumbprint in the list is the correct one. If you did upload a custom certicate, the rst thumbprint
in the list is the correct one.
4 (Optional) Run ep-agent.bat query to verify if the agent is installed and running.
The agent begins running on the Windows platform.
C The agent will run even if some of the parameters that you provided in the installation wizard are
missing or invalid. Check the wrapper.log and agent.log les in the product installation path/log
directory to verify that there are no installation errors.
Installing an Endpoint Operations Management Agent Silently on a Windows Machine
You can install an Endpoint Operations Management agent on a Windows machine using silent or very
silent installation.
Silent and very silent installations are performed from a command line interface using a setup installer
executable le.
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