Enrolling Linux Devices
Before you begin
About this task
To install the device agent and enroll Linux devices, use one of the following methods:
Procedure
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Method A:
wget
- from the command line, run the script that downloads the agent installer and launches it to install the agent on the device:- For a root user:
su -c 'wget -nc - "https://demo.server.soti.net/enroll/4/install.sh" 2>/dev/null || sh install.sh'
- For a non-root user:
sudo wget -nc - "https://demo.server.soti.net/enroll/4/install.sh" 2>/dev/null || sudo sh install.sh
- For a root user:
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Method B: download the agent from the console and copy it to your
device.
- From the SOTI MobiControl hamburger menu, select . The Enrollment Policies view is displayed.
- Right-click the enrollment policy for which you want to generate a device agent and select Download Agent.
- Select Linux Installer, then select the appropriate distribution version from the list. The file downloads automatically to your computer.
- Unzip the downloaded file and copy the extracted files to the device you want to enroll.
- Run the device agent installer using the recommended installation method for your operating system. Generally, this includes running the install.sh script as a super user.
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Method C: run SOTI MobiControl as
./mobicontrol
. Use this method if you do not want to install SOTI MobiControl or do not want to run SOTI MobiControl as a root user.- On the device, extract the contents of the SOTI MobiControl TAR file and go to the folder containing the SOTI MobiControl executable.
- Provide root level permissions to the SOTI MobiControl file.
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Run
./mobicontrol
from the folder.
Results
Your Linux device is now enrolled in SOTI MobiControl and can communicate with the SOTI MobiControl deployment server.