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@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@ -Windows Azure Linux Agent README +Microsoft Azure Linux Agent README INTRODUCTION -The Windows Azure Linux Agent (waagent) manages Linux provisioning and VM -interaction with the Windows Azure Fabric Controller. It provides the following +The Microsoft Azure Linux Agent (waagent) manages Linux & FreeBSD provisioning, +and VM interaction with the Azure Fabric Controller. It provides the following functionality for Linux and FreeBSD IaaS deployments: * Image Provisioning @@ -53,12 +53,13 @@ The information flow from the platform to the agent occurs via two channels: REQUIREMENTS -The following systems have been tested and are known to work with the Windows -Azure Linux Agent. Please note that this list may differ from the official -list of supported systems on the Windows Azure Platform as described here: +The following systems have been tested and are known to work with the Azure +Linux Agent. Please note that this list may differ from the official list +of supported systems on the Windows Azure Platform as described here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2805216 Supported Linux Distributions: + * CoreOS * CentOS 6.2+ * Debian 7.0+ * Ubuntu 12.04+ @@ -67,14 +68,14 @@ http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2805216 * Oracle Linux 6.4+ Other Supported Systems: - * FreeBSD 9+ + * FreeBSD 10+ (Azure Linux Agent v2.0.10+) Waagent depends on some system packages in order to function properly: - * Python 2.5+ + * Python 2.6+ * OpenSSL 1.0+ * OpenSSH 5.3+ - * Filesystem utilities: sfdisk, fdisk, mkfs + * Filesystem utilities: sfdisk, fdisk, mkfs, parted * Password tools: chpasswd, sudo * Text processing tools: sed, grep * Network tools: ip-route @@ -87,8 +88,12 @@ You can also customize your own RPM or DEB packages using the configuration files provided (see debian/README and rpm/README). If installing manually, waagent should be copied to /usr/sbin/waagent and -installed by running: /usr/sbin/waagent -install. The waagent log is kept at -/var/log/waagent.log. +installed by running: + + # sudo chmod 755 /usr/sbin/waagent + # sudo /usr/sbin/waagent -install -verbose + +The agent's log file is kept at /var/log/waagent.log. COMMAND LINE OPTIONS @@ -155,7 +160,7 @@ A configuration file (/etc/waagent.conf) controls the actions of waagent. A sample configuration file is shown below: # -# Windows Azure Linux Agent Configuration +# Azure Linux Agent Configuration # Role.StateConsumer=None @@ -219,7 +224,7 @@ Type: Boolean Default: y This allows the user to enable or disable the provisioning functionality in the agent. Valid values are "y" or "n". If provisioning is disabled, SSH host and user keys in the image are preserved and any configuration specified in the -Windows Azure provisioning API is ignored. +Azure provisioning API is ignored. Provisioning.DeleteRootPassword: Type: Boolean Default: n |