Enrolling Linux Devices

The first step to start managing your Linux devices is to enroll them to Scalefusion. Once enrolled you can apply the policies remotely and perform device level actions. Follow the steps below to enroll your devices.

Prerequisites

1. Create an Enrollment configuration.
   1. Have the Enrollment URL handy.
2. sudo/root access on the machine that needs to be enrolled.
3. If you have installed a custom version of Linux/Debian, make sure the following packages are installed: 
   1. curl 
   2. lsb-release

Steps

1. Open a terminal window on the device that you want to manage.
2. Since we would be using the curl command, the first step is to make sure that curl is installed. At the terminal window type the command below and hit enter. When prompted, enter your sudo/root password and to confirm the installation type Y 

   $ sudo apt install curl

3. Now paste the Enrollment URL at the terminal that you copied from the enrollment configuration created as a prerequisite and hit enter key. When prompted, please enter the sudo/root password
   

   curl -fsSL https://app.scalefusion.com/cloud/nix/enrollment/XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX==/script.sh | sudo bash

4. Step 3 would start downloading the Scalefusion agent and then install and complete the enrollment. Once the enrollment is complete you would see a message Enrollment Succeeded

   

On the Scalefusion Dashboard, if you navigate to the Devices section, the newly enrolled device would be listed along with the columns that you have configured for your devices view.

Frequently Asked Questions

1. Question: What if we don't see Enrollment succeededat the end of enrollment and see some errors?
   1. Answer: If you see that there is an enrollment error then please extract all the logs files from the folder below and share it with support@scalefusion.com along with the screenshot of the error displayed on Terminal window.

/var/log/tux-agent/reconfigure

Next Steps

Now that the device is enrolled and the policies are applied, you can go through the Device Inventory & Actions document to understand the device details that Scalefusion provides and also the remote actions that can be performed.