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When Downloading the RHEL Agent package in Orion Web you find it is downloading a CentOS agent package

This article explains why when you download the RHEL agent package, the system brings the CentOS agent.

First published date

10/3/2019 8:37 AM

Last published date

10/12/2019 2:15 PM

Overview

Downloading RHEL agents brings CentOS instead.

When you go to Download Agents Software, select Unix / Linux and then Distribution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux (x64 or x86), and click on Download Agent Software File for Manual Installation.

It downloads the centos file instead of the RHEL Agent.

Product section

Server Application Monitor

Cause

By design.

Resolution

This behavior is correct.
There is no special package for RHEL distributions.
CentOS is based on RHEL.

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