Installing the Resilient Package Agent

The Resilient Package (RP) Agent downloads the certificates. These certificates are further used to authenticate the login credentials, public or private keys, and certify the code reliability.

To install the RPAgent:

1. Log in to the server as the user with the required permissions.

2. Navigate to the directory where you have extracted the Teradata Data Warehouse protector package. For example, /opt/protegrity/.

3. To install the RPAgent, run the following command:

   ./RPAgentSetup_Linux_x64_10.0.0+x.sh
   

4. Press ENTER.
   The prompt to enter the host name or the IP address of the ESA appears.

   Please Enter ESA host name or IP address []:
   

5. Enter the IP address of the ESA.

   If you fail to specify an IP address, then the installation script will terminate the installation process.

6. Press ENTER.
   The prompt to enter the username for downloading the certificate appears.

   Please enter the user name for downloading certificates[]:
   

7. Enter the username to download the certificates.

8. Press ENTER.
   The prompt to enter the password for downloading the certificate appears.

    Please enter the password for downloading certificates []:
   

9. Enter the password to download the certificates.

10. Press ENTER.
    The installer extracts the files and downloads the certificates.

    Unpacking...
    Extracting files...
    Obtaining token from x.x.x.x:25400...
    Downloading certificates from x.x.x.x:25400...
    % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
    Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
    100 8704 100 8704 0 0 209k 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 212k
    Extracting certificates...
    Certificates successfully downloaded and stored in /opt/protegrity/rpagent/data
    Protegrity RPAgent installed in /opt/protegrity/rpagent.
    

    If the JWT token is not specified while downloading the certificates, then the RPAgent fetches the token automatically from the ESA.

11. Navigate to the /opt/protegrity/rpagent/bin/ directory.

12. To start the RPAgent, run the following command:

    ./rpagentctrl start
    

13. Press ENTER.
    The command starts the RPAgent successfully and a confirmation message appears.

    Starting rpagent
    

14. To verify the status of the RPAgent, run the following command:

    ./rpagentctrl status
    

15. Press ENTER.
    The status of the RPAgent service appears.

    rpagent is running (pid=10817)