Installing agents silently
Installing agents silently reduces installation time. To install a monitoring agent in
silent mode, you must download an agent installation image archive file from the IBM®
Marketplace
website, extract the agent installation files, prepare a silent response file, and run the
installation script in silent mode.
Before you begin
- Review the prerequisite tasks for installing the monitoring agents, and download and extract the agent installation files. For details, see Installing agents on UNIX systems, Installing agents on Linux® systems, or Installing agents on Windows systems.
- Complete the following steps to prepare a silent response file for installing agents:
- Locate the silent installation file for your offering (or offerings) offering_silent_install.txt, make a copy of this file, and open it in a text editor.
- Uncomment the license agreement.
- Complete one of the following steps to specify the agents that you want to install:
- Uncomment the individual agents to be installed. For
example:
INSTALL_AGENT=os
INSTALL_AGENT=ruby
- Uncomment
INSTALL_AGENT=all
to install all agents.
- Uncomment the individual agents to be installed. For
example:
- Uncomment
AGENT_HOME
and specify the directory where you want to install the agents.Remember: If you are upgrading agents on a Linux system, you must not specify the /opt/ibm/apm/agent directory. - If you are upgrading the agents on a Linux system, uncomment
MIGRATE_CONF=yes
. - Save the file.
Procedure
Results
What to do next
Configure the agents. See the procedure and table of commands for Linux and UNIX systems and for Windows systems.