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Installing Express Agent for Solaris (SPARC and Intel)

The Change Tracker Express Agent is a reduced feature but ultra-portable Agent provided for use on any platform where support for .NET (and Mono) is not provided.

Unlike the standard Gen 7 agent, the Express Agent does not require a .NET/Mono runtime. The Express Agent is provided as an pkg package, downloaded from NNT Members Area and installed using pkg commands.

pkgadd -ivh nnt-changetracker-expressagent-2.0.1.3-25.ppc.pkg

Once the package is installed the HubDetails.xml can be created using a configuration script. The configure-expressagent.sh and is found within the installation directory - /opt/nnt/expressagent.

bash /opt/nnt/expressagent/configure-expressagent.sh

Welcome to the NNT ChangeTracker Express Agent Configuration script

Hub URL [https://localhost/api/] : https://IPADDRESS-SERVERNAME:PORT/api/

Agent username [agent] : agent

Agent password : passWord121

Agent config path [/var/nnt/expressagent] : /var/nnt/expressagent

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The Express Agent will be configured with the following settings :

Hub URL : https://localhost/api/

Agent user : agent

Agent password : <hidden>

Config path : /var/nnt/expressagent

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The script will also start the agent service. If the agent server is able to communicate with Change Tracker over the desired HTTP/HTTPS port, the agent will register and display as a new device in the hub. The agent will be installed into /opt/nnt/expressagent. HubDetails, log and database files will be stored in var/nnt/expressagent.

To start and stop the service manually, use the following commands:

/etc/rc.d/rc2.d/Snntexpressagent.sh start

/etc/rc.d/rc2.d/Knntexpressagent.sh stop

Scripted Installation of Gen 7 Express Agent PKG Installer​

As with all other agents, the installation process can be scripted.

/opt/nnt/expressagent/configure-expressagent.sh `https://IPADDRESS-SERVERNAME:PORT/api/` agent passWord121 /var/nnt/expressagent

Run the Agent UI. See the Agent First Run topic for additional information.