Two agents will need to be installed on the servers to add physical servers to Operations CTRL, just like any other managed server. Since an automated workflow usually does this process during provisioning for a VM, it will need to be completed manually on physical servers once they have bootstrapped their operating system.
Install Elastic
Prerequisites:
- The server must have access to Fleet's endpoint (the URL will look something like https://unique-address.fleet.elastic.expedient.cloud:9243), which a firewall may block. If unable to reach the endpoint, open a support ticket with Expedient to have any source IPs allowlisted to communicate with Elastic.
The Elastic agent will need to be installed manually to collect monitoring metrics and logs. Login to Kibana and navigate to Fleet.
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Choose the blue "Add Agent" button on the far right of the page.
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The following steps should be completed:
- Download the appropriate agent installer files from the elastic site and stage them on the server.
- Choose the default policy unless custom policies have been created for different groups of servers.
- Choose the OS (platform) and run the script generated by Elastic in a terminal.
- Confirm the server is reporting in under the Fleet page