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Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS support for OMS agent and dependency agent
Hello, I recently had a working session with a client that realized that their Linux distro (above) is not supported for the Log Analytics. We didnt realize this until we tried to install the dep...
For the Dependency Agent, we are adding limited support for Ubuntu 16.04 in our next release (9.2.0), due out within the week. The limited part is that we will support kernels up to 4.4, but not the new 4.11 kernel that was recently released for Azure VMs. We'll be adding that kernel version in our subsequent release (it came out too close to this current release to fit it in.).
For the question about Perl, I don't believe our agent does require Perl to be installed. If the customer is getting a message saying otherwise, we'd like to see it so we can track down what's causing that.