Legacy v1 Agent – Server Density

The instructions below detail how to install the legacy v1 agent from source. For v2 instructions please see this article.

Connect to your server via SSH and run these commands to install the agent. Root access is not required.

Agent Download

Download the agent or run the following command

curl -LO https://www.serverdensity.com/downloads/sd-agent.tar.gz

Extract the files

tar xvfz sd-agent.tar.gz

Configure the agent

sudo nano -w sd-agent/config.cfg

Enter the following values. Other settings are optional.

[Main]
sd_url: 
agent_key:

Start the agent

cd sd-agent
python agent.py start

Additional reading

We have a number of agent v1 docs available.