vRealize Automation – Linux Guest Agent

Download Guest agent

wget https://<VRA APPLIANCE FQDN/software/download/prepare_vra_template_linux.tar.gz –no-check-certificate

Extract Guest agent installer

tar -xzf prepare_vra_template_linux.tar.gz

Run the installer

./prepare_vra_template.sh

Install Progress —> Finished

Hostname/IP Address of 
vRealize Appliance: vra.nanner.ninja
Hostname/IP Address of 
Manager Service Server: iaas.nanner.ninja
Manager Service RSA key fingerprint is 1A:2F:B6:6F:4F:03:E1:57:27:A9:55:57:B1:C4:4E:70:CB:24:59:91.
Do you accept this for the Manager Service (yes/no)? yes
vRealize Appliance RSA key fingerprint is 39:1C:E2:03:8A:18:12:4D:F4:45:93:20:04:42:C5:D7:2E:1C:2D:6E.
Do you accept this for the vRealize Appliance (yes/no)? yes
Set download timeout (in seconds) for download [300]:
Download and install Java Runtime Environment 1.8.0_181? [y\N]:y

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#######################################
# Installation Completed Successfully #
# Ready to capture as a template      #
#######################################

Verify the install

You should now see this directory

chris@ubuntu:/usr/share/gugent$ ll
total 712
drwxrwxr-x   5  201  201   4096 Feb  5 16:37 ./
drwxr-xr-x 112 root root   4096 Feb  5 16:37 ../
drwxrwxr-x   5  201  201   4096 Feb  5 16:37 axis2/
-rw-r--r--   1 root root   1224 Feb  5 16:37 cert.pem
-rwxrwxr-x   1  201  201    367 Sep  3 20:06 config.xml*
-rwxrwxr-x   1  201  201    678 Sep  3 20:06 gugent.properties*
-rwxrwxr-x   1  201  201   3540 Sep  3 20:06 installgugent.sh*
drwxrwxr-x   3  201  201   4096 Feb  5 16:37 lib/
-rwxrwxr-x   1  201  201 652498 Sep  3 20:06 openssl*
-rwxrwxr-x   1  201  201    221 Sep  3 20:06 postmortem.sh*
-rw-r--r--   1 root root    178 Feb  5 16:37 rungugent.properties
-rwxrwxr-x   1  201  201   9640 Sep  3 20:06 rungugent.sh*
drwxrwxr-x  11  201  201   4096 Feb  5 16:37 site/
-rwxrwxr-x   1  201  201   1062 Sep  3 20:06 vrm-agent*
-rwxrwxr-x   1  201  201    366 Sep  3 20:06 vrm-agent.conf*
-rwxrwxr-x   1  201  201    135 Sep  3 20:06 vrm-agentd*
-rwxrwxr-x   1  201  201   2884 Sep  3 20:06 VRM_daemon.pl*

Wrap up

You are now ready to shutdown the VM and convert it to template and use it in your blueprints