Running the Unified Agent Installer
Unified Agent Installer performs the tasks necessary to install agents on servers. The Unified Agent Installer is a wizard that steps you through the entire process needed to install agents on multiple agentless devices. The Unified Agent Installer creates the following objects, which are all necessary to install agents:
- Agent bundle
- Remote host authentication (for Windows targets, non-Windows targets, or both)
- Remote host authentication rules
- Agent Installer Job
The Unified Agent Installer gives you the option of running the Agent Installer Job immediately. If you do not choose this option, you can specify that the Agent Installer Job run at some later time.
You can perform other functions in the console without closing the Unified Agent Installer. This capability allows you to perform prerequisite actions while the Unified Agent Installer remains open.
When you finish running the Unified Agent Installer, it creates the objects needed for agent installation. Afterwards, you cannot edit the choices you made in the Unified Agent Installer, although you can edit the objects that Unified Agent Installer created.
The BMC Server Automation Console provides an alternative process for installing agents, described in Creating objects for agent installation. The alternative process requires you to create the necessary objects before you can create and execute an Agent Installer Job, which actually installs agents.
Before you begin
Before you can run the Unified Agent Installer, perform the following:
- Ensure that you perform the preliminary tasks, as described in Preliminary tasks for installing agents.
(Linux machines only) Ensure that your Linux firewall allows access to port 4750, because this port is used during installation.
If you are using SELinux, ensure that you set the allow_execstack and allow_execmod flags, before you run the Unified Agent Installer. Log on to the SELinux machine as a root user and enter the following commands:
setsebool -P allow_execstack=1
setsebool -P allow_execmod=1
Required authorizations
To launch and run the Unified Agent Installer, your role must be granted a variety of permissions.
To run the Unified Agent Installer
- Select the root Serversfolder and do one of the following:
- Right-click and select Unified Agent Installer.
- Select File > Unified Agent Installer.
- Provide information for the Unified Agent Installer, as described in the following sections:
- Unified Agent Installer - Introduction
- Unified Agent Installer - Agent Bundle - Platform Selection
- Unified Agent Installer - Agent Bundle - Installer Selection
- Unified Agent Installer - Agent Bundle - Configuration
- Unified Agent Installer - Remote Host Authentication (non-Windows)
- Unified Agent Installer - Remote Host Authentication (Windows)
- Unified Agent Installer - Remote Host Authentication Rule
- Unified Agent Installer - Agent Installer Job - Options
- Unified Agent Installer - Agent Installer Job - Targets
- Unified Agent Installer - Required Properties
- Unified Agent Installer - Summary
- Click Finish after completing the last step of the wizard.
The Unified Agent Installer creates all objects necessary to install agents. If you defined the Agent Installer Job to run immediately, the job runs now. If you did not select that option, you can execute the job at your convenience (see Executing a job).
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