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Install the Agent on a Solaris Host

Installing a CA Enterprise Log Manager agent on a Solaris system is done from the command line.

To install a Solaris agent

1. Log on to the target host as root.
2. From the command prompt, navigate to the directory where you saved the agent tar file and extract the contents of the agent tar file.
3. Navigate to the install directory with the agent package file, ca-elmagent.pkg.
4. Run the following command.

   pkgadd -d <elmagent_solaris.pkg>
   

   A message asking you to select the package to process appears.

5. Press Enter to select the default, all.

   The license agreement appears.

6. Read the end-user license agreement. To accept, type Yes.
7. If you selected a custom install, either accept the installation path or change it and click Next.
8. Enter the IP address or host name for the CA Enterprise Log Manager to which this agent forwards the logs it collects.

   Important! Enter the host name if the CA Enterprise Log Manager is assigned its IP address dynamically.

9. Enter the authentication key defined in the CA Enterprise Log Manager server.
10. Enter the agent username or, if root, press Enter.
11. Do one of the following:
    • If you want to run the Agent in FIPS mode, type YES and press Enter.
    • If you want to run the Agent in non-FIPS mode, type NO and press Enter.
12. Enter the full path to the ca-elmagent root directory, or press Enter to accept the default, /opt/CA/ELMAgent.

    A message designed to determine the availability of the Connectors.xml file appears.

13. Do one of the following:
    • If you did not export the connector configuration file to this host, type No.

      Note: No is the typical response for the first installation.

    • If you did export Connector.xml, type Yes.

      A prompt that requests the default connectors configuration file path appears.

      1. Type the path.
14. Type Y to create the ca-elmagent root directory.
15. Type Y to continue with the agent installation.

    The following message appears: Installation of <ca-elmagent> was successful. If you specified a low privileged user as the agent username, the installation process assigned required permissions.

Note: Technically, the agent service starts when the caelmwatchdog process successfully binds with the caelmagent process. To verify that a successful bind occurred or to troubleshoot a bind failure, see Troubleshooting Agent Installation.

More information:

Troubleshooting Agent Installation