This section contains tips for deploying the Foglight
™ Agent Manager to a large number of UNIX
® or Windows
® hosts in your environment. It also discusses some of the deployment options you might want to consider.
The instructions in this section include references to the Agent Manager silent installer parameters.
These parameters are used with the --silent command option when you run the Agent Manager installer non-interactively—for example, to install the Agent Manager from the command-line onto remote machines, as described in the examples in this section.
SeeUsing the Agent Manager Silent Installer for more information about these parameters.
If you are planning to deploy the Agent Manager to multiple UNIX® hosts, you can simplify the process by creating a deployment script that downloads installers, installs, and starts the Agent Manager on these hosts.
This example is based on using the Wget network utility to download Management Server installers, providing a specific set of configuration options with the Agent Manager silent installer command, and using passwords to log in to remote hosts over SSH.
The end of the example, Part 5: Run the Script , describes using one type of login method (passwords) for connecting to remote machines using SSH. However, if you have private keys configured in your environment, you might encounter different scenarios when establishing an SSH connection, which are described in
Part 5: Run the Script .