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with appropriate TTY and password settings to support the Discovery Wizard. You can
configure these using the visudo command. While it is also possible to configure an
account that already has privileged access and doesn't require su or sudo to elevate
privilege, this presents a security risk and should be avoided.
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The computer will need to be configured so that an SSH connection can be made us-
ing this account and that appropriate ports are open on the computer's firewall. You
should verify that an SSH connection can be established from the management server
to the computer running UNIX or Linux prior to attempting installation using the Dis-
covery Wizard.
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TROUBLESHOOTING UNIX/LINUX AGENT DEPLOYMENT
You can learn more about troubleshooting the deployment of the Operations Manager
agent for Linux and UNIX at
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/4966.
To create the account profile used by Operations Manager for installation of the agent on
computers running UNIX or Linux, perform the following steps:
1.
In the Administration workspace of the Operations Manager console, select UNIX/
Linux accounts under Run As Configuration, and click Create Run As Account in the
Tasks pane.
On the Account Type page of the Create UNIX/Linux Run As Account Wizard, click
Agent Maintenance Account, as shown in Figure 2-8, and click Next. If you were creat-
ing an account to monitor a UNIX or Linux computer on which an agent was already
installed, you would select the Monitoring Account option.
2.
