Setup Edge Agent
- If required in your environment, set a proxy in
/etc/environment
.- Set
http_proxy
andhttps_proxy
to the internet address and port of your proxy. Also, set the value forno_proxy
for addresses that should not go through the proxy. For example:http_proxy=http://10.9.8.7:6543 https_proxy=http://10.9.8.7:6543 no_proxy=localhost,127.0.0.1,mycompany.com
- Reboot or re-login to apply proxy variables.
- Set
- (Optional) Create a device model.
- You can choose to create a custom device model on Edge Manager, which can be useful for organizing your inventory of devices. Instructions for doing this can be found here
- Enroll your device.
- Create your device on Edge Manager. Note the device ID, secret, and URL of your Edge Manager instance as this information will be required later.
- Ensure the system time is correct. Edge-to-cloud communications will fail if your Edge device and your Edge Manager instance are not at least relatively close in time.
- Run the Helper Script as "root".
- The script will notify on success or failure of the operation.
- For more information, see Enrolling a device.
Edge Agent should begin communicating with Edge Manager, which should show your device as Online after a short wait. This can be verified on Edge Manager by navigating to and searching for your new device.