Generate Windows and Linux agents

Applies to: Medulla – Agents
Version: All 
 Environment: On-Premise / Private SaaS / Shared SaaS
Category: Medulla Agents / supportSupport

Before generating agents for your Windows or Linux workstations, youit needis important to decidedefine whetheryour youattachment wantstrategy in GLPI:

Either one agent per GLPI entityentity, orOr a singleglobal agentagent, type thatwhich will report yourall machines to the parent entity.

GeneratingGenerate an agent per entity

To generate youra agentsseparate byagent entity,per youGLPI need to run the following command:entity:

generate_medulla_agent.sh all force

Then verify that each entity has anits own agent:

ls /var/lib/pulse2/medulla_agent/*

Each entity is linkedassociated towith a tag. In this folder, youYou will find a directory for each tag,tag and within them,containing the corresponding agents.

Generate a global agent

To generate a single agent per OS,operating whichsystem reports your machines(linked to the parent entityGLPI in GLPI, you must run the following command:entity):

/var/lib/pulse2/clients/generate-pulse-agent.sh

Then verify thatthe presence of the agent is present:agents:

ls /var/lib/pulse2/clients/win/

ls /var/lib/pulse2/clients/lin/

Generate an agent andwithout disable the glpi-agentGLPI inventory

RequiresThis option requires Medulla and itsthe agent version 5.5.2 or higher.

/var/lib/pulse2/clients/generate-pulse-agent.sh --disable-inventory

Managing entities with a global agent

If you chooseare to generateusing a global agent but want to place yourdistribute machines inacross specificdifferent GLPI entities, you have two options.options are available:

Manually move the machines toin theGLPI, desiredSet entityup via the GLPI interface.

Or defineautomatic rules in GLPI to(by automaticallysubnet, reassign machines to entities based on their subnet maskname, or other criteria.

criteria).