Linux

The Syslog application will set up a listener on UDP port 514 on the agent computer. On Linux computers, this port may be considered privileged, and the Longitude agent will not have access to it using a non-privileged account. To work around this, you can either configure the Syslog listener to use a different port (with port number > 1024), and configure your devices sending syslog messages to send messages on that port, or you can run the agent using a privileged account.

To set up the Longitude agent to use a privileged account, modify the Linux Longitude agent as follows:

Unfortunately you can not monitor Windows based applications with a Linux agent as the agent is unable to make WMI Calls to Windows Machines.

Unfortunately the Management Console is not compatible with Linux operating systems. However an agent can be installed on many distributions of Linux.

The Upgrade Manager may fail to start during the Linux Agent install. If this occurs you will see an error in the Manage Upgrades function on the Management Station regarding connecting to the Upgrade Manager on the agent. You can start the Upgrade Manager on the agent manually by running the following command from the Longitude/bin directory:

firenze_appman start

The Unix memory collector for Linux runs free -k to collect data. The output of this command looks like: