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Deployment Solution Adlagent Running on Ubuntu

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Nelo
October 2nd, 2008
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Ubuntu by default creates a symbolic link for "sh" that points to "dash". Modifying the "sh" to point to "bash" will allow the adlagent to install and be configured.

The following are the steps to point "sh" to bash:

  1. Open a Linux shell in an Ubuntu machine.
  2. CD to the /bin folder.
  3. Type "sudo rm sh" without the quotes and press enter.
  4. Type "sudo ln -s bash sh".
  5. Finally, execute "sudo ./ altiris-adlagent-x.x-xxx (this is the version of the adlagent).

If everything worked ok you should see the following: 

Linux i386
 Adding system startup for /etc/init.d/adlagent ...
  /etc/rc0.d/K20adlagent -> ../init.d/adlagent
  /etc/rc1.d/K20adlagent -> ../init.d/adlagent
  /etc/rc6.d/K20adlagent -> ../init.d/adlagent
  /etc/rc2.d/S88adlagent -> ../init.d/adlagent
  /etc/rc3.d/S88adlagent -> ../init.d/adlagent
  /etc/rc4.d/S88adlagent -> ../init.d/adlagent
  /etc/rc5.d/S88adlagent -> ../init.d/adlagent
Please set the networking parameters for ADLAgent by
running /opt/altiris/deployment/adlagent/bin/configure.
Install Succeeded

Configure adlagent to use multicast or an IP address and the Deployment Solution Console should have the client listed.

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jjesse
1 year 7 weeks ago

remember not supported by Symantec

The only supported versions of Linux are SUSE and Red Hat Linux

Jonathan Jesse
Director of Training
ITS Partners

Jonathan Jesse
Practice Principle
ITS Partners

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SK
41 weeks 4 days ago

Correct syntax

The correct command should be "sudo ./altiris-adlagent-x.x-xxx" and not "sudo ./ altiris-adlagent-x.x-xxx" (without the quotes).

Once you have gone to the "/opt/altiris/deployment/adlagent/bin/" directory, you need to run "sudo ./configure" (without the quotes).

Changing the symbolic link for sh is definately the way to go with this, so thanks for the good article.

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ant2ne
23 weeks 1 hour ago

The folowing worked for me

The following worked for me using DS version 6.9sp1 and ubuntu 8.04
configure by "sudo /opt/altiris/deployment/adlagent/configure" and then set to auto start by adding "/opt/altiris/deployment/adlagent/bin/debian.init start" (no quotes) to /etc/rc.local or in a custom script in /etc/network/if-up.d

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