Perform the following steps to install the Agent on a Linux machine:
- Download the appropriate distributable package from https://my.vmware.com and copy it over to the machine. The Linux .rpm file should be installed with the root credentials. Log in to the machine and run the following command to install the agent:
[root]# rpm -Uvh <DistributableFileName>
In this example, we are installing on CentOS. Only when we start the service will it generate a token and ask for the server's details.
- Start the Endpoint Operations Management Agent service by running:
service epops-agent start
The previous command will prompt you to enter the following information about the vRealize Operations instance:
- vRealize Operations server hostname or IP: If the server is on the same machine as the agent, you can enter the localhost. If a firewall is blocking traffic from the agent to the server, allow the traffic to that address through the firewall.
- Default port: Specify the SSL port on the vRealize Operations server to which the agent must connect. The default port is 443.
- Certificate to trust: You can configure Endpoint Operations Management agents to trust the root or intermediate certificate to avoid having to reconfigure all agents if the certificate on the analytics nodes and remote collectors are modified.
- vRealize Operations credentials: Enter the name of a vRealize Operations user with agent manager permissions.
The agent token is generated by the Endpoint Operations Management Agent. It is only created the first time the endpoint is registered to the server. The name of the token is random and unique, and is based on the name and IP of the machine.
Provide the necessary information, as shown in the following screenshot:
Go into the vRealize Operations UI and navigate to Administration | Configuration | Endpoint Operations, and select the Agents tab:
After it is deployed, the Endpoint Operations Management Agent starts sending monitoring data to vRealize Operations, where the data is collected by the Endpoint Operations Management adapter.
You can also verify the collection status of the Endpoint Operations Management Agent for your virtual machine on the Inventory Explorer page.