Installing Situate Agent on Linux

This section describes how to install the Situate agent.

Installing the Agent Package

Download the proper package. The download page has instructions that describe how to find the correct package.

Make the script executable, if it is not already. Then, simply run the installer.

> chmod +x situate-linux-2.6-x86_64-shar
> ./situate-agent-linux-2.6-x86_64-64.shar

                       Welcome to the Situate Installer

This script installs a basic Situate agent.  If you want to install a
situate server, first install this package.  Then install the java
support package and the server package.

Continue? [yes|no] yes

Install into: /opt/situate

Install in this location? [yes|no] yes
Installing files...

Completing installation

Starting Situate...default instance

Installation complete

Congratulations, your agent is installed, up and running.

Adding an Agent to a Domain

Once installed, you will need to add your agent to a Situate domain. The instructions for doing this can be found at Managing Assets.