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Installing Express Agent for Solaris (SPARC and Intel)

The Change Tracker Express Agent is a reduced-feature, ultra-portable Agent for use on any platform that doesn't support .NET (or Mono).

Unlike the standard Gen 7 agent, the Express Agent doesn't require a .NET/Mono runtime. NNT Members Area provides the Express Agent as a pkg package. Download it and install it using pkg commands.

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

After you install the package, use the configuration script to create HubDetails.xml. The script, configure-expressagent.sh, is located in 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 also starts the agent service. If the agent server can communicate with Change Tracker over the HTTP/HTTPS port you want, the agent registers and displays as a new device in the hub. The script installs the agent into /opt/nnt/expressagent and stores the HubDetails, log, and database files 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, you can script the installation process.

/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.