Installing Apache Kalumet agent

The Kalumet agents are responsible of the environment updated and interaction with the underlying system.

The agents are installed locally on the target servers. The agents connect to Kalumet console to get the configuration.

In the same way, Kalumet console fires action on the agents.

• Prerequisites
  • J2SE 1.6

    Kalumet agent requires a Java 6 environment to run. Refer to http://java.oracle.com for detail on how to download and install J2SE 1.6.

  • Download binaries

    Download the target version of the Kalumet agent.

    Select the file compression format compatible with your system (zip or tar.gz). Download the archive and expand the binary to your hard driver in a new directory ; for example /opt/apache-kalumet. Please remember the restrictions concerning illegal characters in Java paths, e.g. !, % etc.

  • Kalumet console

    Even if it's not a requirement, we heavily invite you to firstly install the Kalumet console. The Kalumet console allows you to easily configure the agents. Take a look on the Kalumet console admin guide to install the console.

• Start Kalumet Agent

  Open a command line and go in the Kalumet agent installation directory. To start the agent, run the following command in Windows:

  bin\agent.bat -config path to Kalumet console -id agent id

  respectively in Linux/Unix:

  bin/agent -config path to Kalumet console -id agent id

  The agent ID should have been firstly define in the Kalumet console.