Installing the OTbase Discovery Agent for Debian

On the system where you want to install the Discovery Agent, you will need to be in the sudo group. This is necessary because otherwise you can’t install a service.

System requirements

OTbase Discovery Agent runs on Debian 12 and higher.

The following requirements must be met:

• A Debian 64-bit Linux system (x86 and ARM are both supported)

Installation

To install OTbase Discovery Agent on Linux you simply need to run a single command which will then install all dependencies and the Agent itself. The command is the following:

sudo apt install <package path>

The package path is the location of the downloaded OTBase Discovery Agent Linux package. For example if your file is saved in the your home directory:

sudo apt install ~/otbase-discovery-agent_V2.0_amd64.deb

Once the installation is complete, the OTbase Discovery Agent will launch automatically. You can check in the services list. Please note that a proper configuration of the OTbase Discovery Agent is mandatory, without it there is no data collection and export. To learn more about the configuration, please proceed to the Configuration Article.

Port configuration

Since the Linux install is headless the service port is preconfigured on a default installation:

• Service port (used to communicate with OTbase Discovery Manager): 44462

This information can also be found and changed in the file /etc/default/otbase-discovery-agent after the installation. If you change it you then have to restart the Discovery Agent.

If you would like to change the port on installation you have to add a variable to the install command:

• OTBASE_AGENT_SERVICE_PORT=<port>

So a sample command could look like this:

sudo OTBASE_AGENT_SERVICE_PORT=12345 apt install ~/otbase-discovery-agent_V2.0_amd64.deb

This would install OTbase Discovery Agent with the service port 12345.