Manually installing SSM Agent on Oracle Linux instances - AWS Systems Manager
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Manually installing SSM Agent on Oracle Linux instances

The Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) for Oracle Linux that are provided by AWS do not come with AWS Systems Manager Agent (SSM Agent) preinstalled by default. For a list of AWS managed AMIs on which the agent might be preinstalled, see Find AMIs with the SSM Agent preinstalled.

Use the information in this section to help you manually install or reinstall SSM Agent on an Oracle Linux instance.

Before you begin

Before you install SSM Agent on an Oracle Linux instance, note the following:

  • For important information that applies to installation of SSM Agent on all Linux-based operating systems, see Manually installing and uninstalling SSM Agent on EC2 instances for Linux.

  • If you use a yum command to update SSM Agent on a managed node after the agent has been installed or updated using the SSM document AWS-UpdateSSMAgent, you might see the following message: "Warning: RPMDB altered outside of yum." This message is expected and can be safely ignored.

Quick installation commands for SSM Agent on Oracle Linux

Use the following steps to manually install SSM Agent on a single instance. This procedure uses globally available installation files.

To install SSM Agent on Oracle Linux using quick copy and paste commands

  1. Connect to your Oracle Linux instance using your preferred method, such as SSH.

  2. Copy the following command and run it on the instance.

    Note

    Even though URL in the following command includes an ec2-downloads-windows directory, these are the correct global installation files for Oracle Linux.

    x86_64 
    sudo yum install -y https://s3.amazonaws.com/ec2-downloads-windows/SSMAgent/latest/linux_amd64/amazon-ssm-agent.rpm

  3. (Recommended) Run the following command to verify that the agent is running.

    sudo systemctl status amazon-ssm-agent

    In most cases, the command reports that the agent is running, as shown in the following example.

    amazon-ssm-agent.service - amazon-ssm-agent
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/amazon-ssm-agent.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
Active: active (running) since Wed 2021-10-20 19:09:29 UTC; 4min 6s ago
            --truncated--

    In rare cases, the command reports that the agent is installed but not running, as shown in the following example.

    amazon-ssm-agent.service - amazon-ssm-agent
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/amazon-ssm-agent.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
Active: inactive (dead) since Wed 2021-10-20 22:16:41 UTC; 18s ago
            --truncated--

    To activate the agent in these cases, run the following commands.

    sudo systemctl enable amazon-ssm-agent
    sudo systemctl start amazon-ssm-agent

Create custom agent installation commands for Oracle Linux in your Region

When you install SSM Agent on multiple instances using a script or template, we recommended using installation files that are stored in the AWS Region you're working in.

For the following commands, we provide examples that use a publicly accessible S3 bucket in the US East (Ohio) Region (us-east-2).

Tip

You can also replace a global URL in the procedure Quick installation commands for SSM Agent on Oracle Linux earlier in this topic with a custom Regional URL you construct.

In the following command, replace region with your own information. For a list of supported region values, see the Region column in Systems Manager service endpoints in the Amazon Web Services General Reference.

x86_64
sudo yum install -y https://s3.region.amazonaws.com/amazon-ssm-region/latest/linux_amd64/amazon-ssm-agent.rpm

See the following example.

sudo yum install -y https://s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/amazon-ssm-us-east-2/latest/linux_amd64/amazon-ssm-agent.rpm