BES Agent on Ubuntu/Debian

(imported topic written by SystemAdmin)

Hello,

If you need to test the BES agent on a Ubuntu/Debian, I succesfully used the steps below on Ubuntu 9.10.

  1. Download the BES Agent RPM package from http://support.bigfix.com/install/bescl … html#linux

  2. Convert and install the RPM package using

alien -i /home/marc/besagent.rpm -c postinst postrm prerm

Ignore warnings/errors.

3)In /etc/init.d/BESClient-7.2.5.22

3a) comment the line

. /etc/init.d/functions

3b) replace the line

daemon /opt/BESClient/bin/$prog

by

start-stop-daemon --start --exec /opt/BESClient/bin/$prog

4/ Create the following directory

mkdir /var/lock/subsys/

5/ Copy the actionsite.afxm from your BES Server to /etc/opt/BESClient/

The actionsite.afxm is usually found in \BESInstallers\BESClientDeploy\BigFixInstallSource\ClientInstaller

on your BES Server

6/ Start the BES Client

/etc/init.d/BESClient-7.2.5.22 start

7/ Check that the BES Client process is running

ps aux | grep BESClient

Cheers,

Marc

(imported comment written by saml91)

Broken link, it appears it replaced your url with an elipsis in the middle.

(imported comment written by NoahSalzman)

The link is to

the download page for non-windows clients

.

(imported comment written by Vern91)

I am unclear which BESClient version you used to install on Ubuntu. Can you specify the OS and rpm package.


Never mind. Was missing the C++ 5 package. Used the RedHat x86 Client on Unbutu 10

i followed all the steps but cant be able to edit the file which is mentioned on step 3, secondly i have installed all BESClient but the services is unrecognized. can anyone help me please??

See the reply to your other post