Installing eG Agent on Solaris

Step-By-Step instructions

Before installing the eG Agent, make sure that there is communication between the linux server, and the eG Manager using ping/telnet.

Installing the eG Agent

• Copy the eGagent into the /tmp folder
  
• Move to the /tmp directory on the Solaris server.
  
• Login as root user
  
• Run the command gunzip eGagent.gz to unzip the file
  
• Run the command pkgadd -d eGagent
  
• Enter the name of the eG user [egurkha]: Enter any Name (egurkha)
  
• Enter the directory where the eG Agent should be installed [/opt] : /opt
  
• Would you like the eG Agent to auto-restart on system boot-up? y/n [n]: N
  
• Do you want to install these conflicting files [y,n,?,q] Y
  
• Do you want to continue with the installation of <eGagent> [y,n,?] Y
  
• Logout from root user and login as installed User (egurkha)
  
• Move to opt/egurkha/bin folder
  
• Run the command ./setup_agent

Configuring the eG Agent ...

• Please indicate if you accept the eG licensing terms y/n [n]: Y
  
• Enter the hostname (or IP address) of the eG Manager: <<eG manager IP/Host name>>
  
• Enter the port number of the eG Manager [7077]: <<port number>>
  
• Please indicate if you want to use a proxy for the eG Agent to communicate with the eG Manager? y/n [n] : n (if you have proxy then say and provide Proxy server information)
  
• Do you want to configure the eG Agent to use SSL for communication with the eG Manager? y/n [n] : n (If eG manager is install with SSL, then agent has to be installation with SSL)
  
• Please indicate if you want to assign a nick name(s) for this host? y/n [n] : n
  
• Do you want to configure any web servers running on (server) for monitoring by the agent?:n
  
• Do you want to configure any Coldfusion servers running on (server) for monitoring by the agent?:n
  
• Do you want to configure any Sybase Adaptive servers running on (server) for monitoring by agent?: n
  

eG Agent installation is now complete

• To start/stop eG Agent on linux servers, always use eG user that you used at the time of installation.
  
• To start the eG Agent, use the command /opt/egurkha/bin/start_agent
  
• To stop the eG Agent, use the command /opt/egurkha/bin/stop_agent