How to install an agent (4281842)

How to install an agent

To install the agent, perform the following steps:

1.Log on as the root user.

2.Change to the directory containing the qpm-agent package for your specific platform and run the platform specific installer. For example, on 64-bit RedHat Linux, run:
$ cd agent/linux-x86_64
$ rpm --install qpm-agent-*.rpm

3.Update your PATH to include the Privilege Manager commands. For example, on RHEL, append the following two lines to /etc/profile:
PATH=$PATH:/opt/quest/sbin:/opt/quest/bin
export PATH

4.Establish a new session for the PATH changes to take effect.

5.Run the following command to join the agent to the policy server:
$ pmjoin <policy_server>
where <policy_server> is the name of the policy server host.

6.To verify that the agent installation has been successful, as an unprivileged user, run a command that is permitted by your Privilege Manager security policy, for example, the default security policy will allow any user to run the id command as the root user:

$ pmrun id

This will return the root user id, not the user’s own id, to show that the command was executed as root.