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Installing Informatica Cloud Secure Agent (Linux)

System Requirements

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

Downloading the Agent Installer

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

Installing the Agent

  1. In a command line terminal, navigate to the directory where you downloaded the installer.
  2. Enter the following command: ./agent_install.bin –i console
  3. 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.

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

    ./infaagent startup

    The Agent should start up.

  2. 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>

  3. You can check the registration status of an Agent using the following command in the same directory:

    consoleAgentManager.sh is configured

Directory Structure Extraction

  1. Download the Directory Structure .zip file (accept any authorization warning).
  2. 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).
  3. Extract the compressed files to create the directory structure and prerequisite files.

Setting Up the Environment Variable

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

export TargetX_ETL_Dir = /var/lib

  1. Save the file.
  2. Restart the Agent.
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