Install the Ambari Agents Manually

Use the instructions specific to the OS family running on your agent hosts.

RHEL/CentOS/Oracle Linux

Steps

Install the Ambari Agent on every host in your cluster.
```
yum install ambari-agent 
```

Using a text editor, configure the Ambari Agent by editing the ambari-agent.ini file as shown in the following example:

vi /etc/ambari-agent/conf/ambari-agent.ini

[server]

hostname=<your.ambari.server.hostname>

url_port=8440

secured_url_port=8441

Start the agent on every host in your cluster.
```
ambari-agent start 
```
The agent registers with the Server on start.

SLES

Steps

Install the Ambari Agent on every host in your cluster.
```
zypper install ambari-agent 
```

Configure the Ambari Agent by editing the ambari-agent.ini file as shown in the following example:

vi /etc/ambari-agent/conf/ambari-agent.ini

[server]

hostname=<your.ambari.server.hostname>

url_port=8440

secured_url_port=8441

Start the agent on every host in your cluster.
```
ambari-agent start
```
The agent registers with the Server on start.

Debian/Ubuntu

Steps

Install the Ambari Agent on every host in your cluster.
```
apt-get install ambari-agent
```

Configure the Ambari Agent by editing the ambari-agent.ini file as shown in the following example:

vi /etc/ambari-agent/conf/ambari-agent.ini

[server]

hostname=<your.ambari.server.hostname>

url_port=8440

secured_url_port=8441

Start the agent on every host in your cluster.
```
ambari-agent start
```
The agent registers with the Server on start.

​Install the Ambari Agents Manually