Installation of the PatchMon Agent

Introduction

The agent installer script authenticates with PatchMon server and proceeds to install the patchmon-agent.sh.

Adding a host:

Go to the Hosts page, press Add host:

or via the button on the top right of the hosts page:

You will be greeted by this screen where you enter in a friendly name for the server:

Groups will show empty unless you have added groups already.

Here is how to add groups

As soon as you press "Create Host" it will redirect you to the credentials and deployment script page:

Now we have two ways of installation however we should first take care of a few things:

The first is the checkbox "Force Install (bypass broken packages)"

At times in Linux, certain packages are broken and throw dependency issues when installing software which break the installation script. If you find this is happening then ideally you need to fix your server before you install more software, hoever that's not always possible so by pressing this flag it will bypass package manager issues.