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Installing an Agent Interactively

The prerequisites for installing a CA Enterprise Log Manager agent interactively are the same on any UNIX system.

Prerequisites include:

• The following information for entry during the installation process
  • Host name or IP address of the CA Enterprise Log Manager server to which the agent is to return events.
  • Agent authentication key configured in the CA Enterprise Log Manager server.
  • Name of the low-privileged user defined on the target host.
• The target host location of the agent installation tar file.

When you download the agent binaries from CA Enterprise Log Manager, you save the tar file to the host from which you opened the browser to access CA Enterprise Log Manager. Copy this file to the host where you plan to install the agent. Consider creating a directory on the target host under /usr and copying the tar file to /usr/<mydirectory>.

Important! In this guide, we refer to the directory containing the file you invoke to install the agent as the <install directory>.

The installation program installs the agent and creates the agent root directory, /opt/CA/ELMAgent. The installation program refers to /opt/CA/ELMAgent as the install path.