Installing zLink onto an Edge Gateway Instance (Linux) - Manual Installation

Prerequisites:

• Endpoint is running a Linux (RHEL/CentOS, Debian/Ubuntu, SUSE)

• Port 443 outbound

• Port 22 inbound (if you don't have access to the physical server or the host machine of your VM or Container

Installation Procedure:

1. Find your target server pool in Fabric Server Pools under Project Provisioning in your target zCenter

2. Click on "Fabric Servers" to the right of target server pool

3. Click on "Manual Registration" tab

4. Choose your OS from the drop-down menu

5. Give an IP address and SSH Port, if those fields are available

6. Click "Register" in the middle of the page

7. Download the zLink installation package (tar for Linux, ZIP for Windows) to a place you can remember

8. Transfer the installation package to the target Endpoint

9. Unpack the installation package

10. Run "install_zlink.sh"

11. Within the install_zlink.sh script, depending on your SSH authentication method, provide a sudo-privileged username and password or username and private key (i.e. a .pem file) for your Endpoint