2.0 Installing and Licensing

This chapter provides information about installing, licensing, upgrading, and uninstalling the UNIX agent on computers you want to monitor. This chapter also provides an overview of starting and stopping the UNIX agent.

This chapter assumes you have an Secure Configuration Manager installed. For more information about installing Secure Configuration Manager or about Secure Configuration Manager system requirements, see the Installation Guide for Secure Configuration Manager, which is available on the Secure Configuration Manager Documentation page.

To install UNIX agent, complete the following checklist:

	Ensure you have the necessary environment. For more information, see Section 2.1, System Requirements.
	Install or upgrade UNIX Agent Manager. If you are upgrading, ensure you export your existing information before upgrading. If you are upgrading from UNIX agent version 7.1, you must use UNIX Agent Manager 7.2 or higher, but you can manage both 7.1, 7.2, and 7.3 UNIX agents from the same console. See Section 2.2, Installing or Upgrading UNIX Agent Manager.
	Install or upgrade the agent on the computer you want to manage. For information about how to install on a local computer, see Section 2.3.1, Installing or Upgrading the Agent on the Local Computer. For information about how to install using an answer file, see Section 2.3.4, Silently Installing on the Agent Computer. For information about how to install, or deploy, to one or more computers from the console, see Section 2.3.2, Deploying the UNIX Agent Using UNIX Agent Manager.
	Install any agent hotfixes applicable to your environment. For information about how to install patches to the console and the UNIX agent, see Section 2.4, Applying Patches. For a list of available hotfixes, see the Secure Configuration Manager Hotfixes for UNIX and Linux Operating Systems page.
	Register your agents in Secure Configuration Manager.
	Begin monitoring your UNIX and Linux computers.