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Linux Agent Installation/Un-Installation Guide

This page describes the Linux Agent installation and uninstallation steps for all the flavours of Linux OS.

System Requirements​

Target Machine OS:

UbuntuRedHatZorin
CentOSMintOpenSuse
SUSEDebianSolaris
OracleRocky OSFedora
Almas OS
note
  • To install, the user must have root permissions.
  • sudo must be installed in the machine.

Installation of Linux Agent in Ubuntu​

  1. Download the latest agent file. You can download agents for 32bit and 64bit system architecure.
  2. Open terminal and go to the directory where you have downloaded the file.

Select File

  1. Check the permissions of the file whether it is executable. If not, run the following command.
    chmod 777 MotadataServiceOpsCommonAgent

Permissions

  1. Now run the agent file.

    ./MotadataServiceOpsCommonAgent

Run

  1. You will be prompted to enter the Main Server URL. Enter the URL of the product (Motadata) server.

URL

  1. Next, enter the secure code or agent activation code. You can get the activation code from the Motadata ServiceOps portal in Admin > Account (under Organization) and Secure Code from the Agent Credential Profile.

Activation Code

  1. After you enter the secure code or activation code, a successful Installation prompt would be seen as below:

Activation Code

  1. Check agent service using the below command

    sudo systemctl status motadata_serviceops.service

Activation Code

Uninstall Linux Agent​

To uninstall the Linux Agent, login to the Terminal server, and follow the below mentioned commands:

  • Stop Agent Service:
    sudo systemctl stop motadata_serviceops.service
  • Disable Agent Service:
    sudo systemctl disable motadata_serviceops.service
  • Remove Agent Service:
    sudo rm -rf /etc/systemd/system/motadata_serviceops.service
  • Delete Agent dir:
    sudo rm -rf /opt/Motadata/