About Installing The Agent Software On Linux Machines - Dell DL1000 Deployment Manual

About installing the Agent software on Linux machines

When installing the Agent software on Linux machines that you want to protect, use the following
guidance. After installation is complete, configure the Agent as described in the topic "Configuring the
Rapid Recovery Agent on a Linux machine" in the Dell Data Protection | Rapid Recovery 6.0 Installation
and Upgrade Guide.
CAUTION: After configuring the newly installed Agent software on a Linux machine, restart the
machine. Restarting ensures that the proper kernel driver version is used to protect your
machine.
The method for installing and removing the Agent software on Linux machines has changed. As of
release 6.0.1, the following factors apply:
• One set of instructions applies to installations of Agent on a Linux machine with current access to the
Internet. This is referred to as online installation. Instead of using shell scripts, package managers are
used to install or remove the Rapid Recovery software from a repository referenced on the local Linux
machine.
NOTE: The repository is used for staging of files for the relevant package managers. This
repository is not related to the Rapid Recovery repository.
• If installing Agent on a Linux machine with no access to the Internet (such as an air-gapped or
secured standalone machine), this is referred to as offline installation. For this process, you must first
download an installation package from a Linux machine with Internet access, and then move those
installation files to the secured computer for installation.
Because the various supported Linux distributions use different package managers for online installation,
the procedure for installing, upgrading, or removing Agent on any supported Linux OS depends on the
package manager used. The package managers, and the Linux distributions they support, are described in
the following table.
Table 6. Package managers and the Linux distributions they support
Package Linux Distribution
Manager
yum Linux distributions based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), including RHEL, CentOS,
and Oracle Linux.
zypper SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) versions 11, 12
apt Linux distributions based on Debian, including Debian 7 or 8, and Ubuntu 12.04 and
later
As a one-time setup step for each Linux machine, you must configure your local software repository to
point to the location where the package manager obtains Dell Rapid Recovery installation files.
NOTE: This process is represented by steps 1 through 4 in each of the installation procedures. When
upgrading future editions of the Rapid Recovery Agent on a Linux machine with the repository
configured, you will not need to perform these steps.
After you configure a software repository on your Linux machine, the package manager is able to retrieve
and install the packages needed for installation or removal of Rapid Recovery Agent software and related
components, such as aamount (now called local mount), aavdisk (now called rapidrecovery-vdisk), and
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