How do I deploy Linux/Mac Agents? - women in leather gloves - Top

How do I deploy Linux/Mac Agents?

* Select the customer that you want to deploy a linux agent.
* Right click on the customer, select Add Devices
* Select the 2nd radio button and follow the wizard instructions ( you must supply valid Telnet or SSH credentials )
Note: You can also choose to click the install manually button and choose Linux.

Manual Install
unzip package...
unzip ptagent_install.zip
tar zxvf ptagent_install.tgz
./ptagent_install.sh -i

Manual Uninstall
/usr/bin/ptagent/ptagent_install.sh -u

Agent Dependencies

admin level preveleges priveleges for:
/etc
/etc/init.d
/usr/bin
/var/log

Programs Needed:
unzip program
wget
tar
enough disk space

Kernel 2.6

Patch Process:

The agent recognizes the version has changed while executing every command and notifies the patcher to patch the software. The patcher would patch it and then restarts the ptagent process. The patcher also checks for new version every 4 hours.

Linux/Mac Agent is run as one of the system daemons at the boot time. It can also started and stopped by the daemon script using the command and the corresponding option.

/etc/init.d/ptagentd start
/etc/init.d/ptagentd stop
/etc/init.d/ptagentd restart

check if agent is running: ps -ef | grep ptagent

Functionality

The daemon starts the linux agent patcher (/usr/bin/ptagent/ptagent_patcher.pl) which in turn runs the ptagent process (/usr/bin/ptagent/ptagent) Linux agent does only local monitoring. PTFlow is supported. It also supports 'GoLive'. When the device is deleted, it would uninstall agent software like windows agent.

Note:
Today it does not support few monitors like Syslog, Http, SMTP, DNS. And of course it does not support Windows specific and Voip monitors.

Sincerely,
PacketTrap Support