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Package Requirements

Required package Description Minimum version
Glibc GNU C Library 2.5-12
Openssl OpenSSL Libraries 0.9.8b or 1.0
Curl cURL web client 7.15.5
PAM Pluggable authentication Modules

Note: Either rsyslog or syslog-ng are required to collect syslog messages. The default syslog daemon on version 5 of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, CentOS, and Oracle Linux version (sysklog) is not supported for syslog event collection. To collect syslog data from this version of these distributions, the rsyslog daemon should be installed and configured to replace sysklog,

Install the Linux Agent

The Linux agent for Operations Management Suite comprises multiple packages. The release file contains the following packages, available by running the shell bundle with --extract:

Package Version Description
omsagent 1.0.0 The Operations Management Suite Agent for Linux
omsconfig 1.1.0 Configuration agent for the OMS Agent
omi 1.0.8.3 Open Management Infrastructure (OMI) -- a lightweight CIM Server
scx 1.6.1 OMI CIM Providers for operating system performance metrics
apache-cimprov 1.0.0 Apache HTTP Server performance monitoring provider for OMI. Only installed if Apache HTTP Server is detected.
mysql-cimprov 1.0.0 MySQL Server performance monitoring provider for OMI. Only installed if MySQL/MariaDB server is detected.

Upgrade from a Previous Release

If you have installed a prior Preview version of the Linux agent for Operations Management Suite, it must be removed (and configuration files purged) prior to installing this version. Upgrade from prior versions is not supported in this release.

Removing Prior Versions

CentOS Linux, Oracle Linux, RHEL, SLES

sudo rpm -e omsagent scx omi
sudo rm -f /etc/opt/microsoft/omsagent/conf/omsagent.conf

Debian, Ubuntu

dpkg -P omsagent scx omi
sudo rm -f /etc/opt/microsoft/omsagent/conf/omsagent.conf

Additional Installation Artifacts

After installing the Linux agent for OMS packages, the following additional system-wide configuration changes are applied. These artifacts are removed when the omsagent package is uninstalled.

  • A non-privileged user named: omsagent is created. This is the account the omsagent daemon runs as
  • A sudoers “include” file is created at /etc/sudoers.d/omsagent This authorizes omsagent to restart the syslog and omsagent daemons. If sudo “include” directives are not supported in the installed version of sudo, these entries will be written to /etc/sudoers.
  • • The syslog configuration is modified to forward a subset of events to the agent. For more information, see the Configuring Data Collection section below
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