Manual installation of UD Agent

  • KM03769193
  • 17-Dec-2020
  • 17-Dec-2020

Summary

Manual installation of UD Agent

Question

How to install manually the UDA agent on target machines

Answer

1. Prerequisite

Ensure that the platform of the remote machine on which you want to install the UD Agent is supported.

For more information, see Universal Discovery Agent Deployment.

For a list of out-of-the-box supported version.

 

2. Export the UD Agent installation file and the UD Protocol certificate

 

•Go to Administration > Package Manager and export the UDAgentManagement archive file.
•Extract the UD Agent installation file or files that are appropriate for the platform of your discovery nodes from the following location in the archive file:

  discoveryResources\ud_agents

•In Data Flow Management, go to Data Flow Probe Setup > Domains and Probes. In the relevant domain, select the UD protocol credential whose certificate you want to export, and click Export Public Certificates.

3. Copy the UD Agent installation file and the UD Protocol certificate

•Copy the exported UD Agent installation file and certificate to the remote machine and install
•Copy the UD Agent installation file and certificate using any manual method or remote access technology to the remote Windows machine, and then perform installation by clicking the executable (MSI) file. 

 

4. Generate Unique IDs for Disk Cloning- Optional

•Navigate to the directory that contains the UD Agent executable files and run the following command:
•Windows: discagnt.exe –newuniqueid
•Unix: ./discagnt –newuniqueid

 

5. Result

When you activate the Infrastructure activity, the DFP connects to the UD Agent installed on the remote machine.

To verify that the Data Flow Probe is able to communicate with the remote UD Agent, go to Universal Discovery > Activity Discovery Status > Progress tab and make sure that a UDA CI instance was discovered.