Installing Informatica Cloud Secure Agent (Linux)

For the latest Minimum System Requirements, see Informatica's Installation and Configuration Guide Verify the Minimum System Requirements.

Log in to your CRM.
Select the Informatica Cloud application from the application picker in the top right corner.
Click Single Sign-On.
Hover over the "Configuration" tab and click Secure Agents.
Click Download Agent.
Select Linux and click Download.

In a command line terminal, navigate to the directory where you downloaded the installer.
Enter the following command: ./agent_install.bin –i console
Complete the prompts, and the Agent should install to the current user.

Note: The Agent installs as the user who runs the installer. It is recommended that you do not run it as root.

Navigate to the directory where you installed the Agent and enter the following command:

./infaagent startup

The Agent should start up.
With the Agent running, register it to your Informatica account by entering the following commands. Substitute your Informatica Cloud username and password.

cd <AgentInstallDir>/main/agentcore
consoleAgentManager.sh configure <username> <password>
You can check the registration status of an Agent using the following command in the same directory:

consoleAgentManager.sh is configured

Download the Directory Structure .zip file (accept any authorization warning).
Save the .zip file to /var/lib/informatica (you will most likely have to create the "Informatica" directory on your Informatica Cloud Secure Agent machine).
Extract the compressed files to create the directory structure and prerequisite files.

Open startup.sh (found in the directory that the Agent was installed to) in an editor.
Insert the following line right after #!/bin/sh:

export TargetX_ETL_Dir = /var/lib