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TheBigBear's avatar
TheBigBear
Copper Contributor
Jul 22, 2020

how do you cope without the Azure Sentinel Agant MMA available for Centos 8.0?

How do you work around or cope with the fact that the Microsoft Management Agent is NOT available for CentOS 8.0?

 

And of course, the other question, does anybody have a crystal ball as to when the Agent might become available?

 

And how is this MMA agent requirement of having to have a python ver. 2.x system or os default python version playing out on other Linux distro? Surely no recent distro still has a python ver 2.x os or system python version?

 

Afterall Python 2.x has now been EOL for several months and everybody had plenty of warning to prepare for this. 

 

 

  • GaryBushey's avatar
    GaryBushey
    Bronze Contributor

    TheBigBear  Not sure if this will fix your issue but y

    ou can use python 3 for the MMA agent.  You would need to run:

    sudo alternatives --set python /usr/bin/python3

    to map Python 3 as the default python version.  You can then run the wget command that you get from Azure Sentinel to install the MMA.

     

    • TheBigBear's avatar
      TheBigBear
      Copper Contributor

      GaryBushey Hi, Thanks, but I had already tried that - as it is the default on centos 8.0 but the MMA installer caught that and said it actually required the os system python to be python ver 2.x and asked me to run the alternatives setting the centos 8 system python to version "2", which of course is untenable. They have a note on the MMA agent download page that says same thing that you absolutely. do need python 2.x as main system and os python. Even reached out to MS and was told yes, we know centos 8 is not a supported system ... ;-(

      • Ofer_Shezaf's avatar
        Ofer_Shezaf
        Microsoft

        TheBigBear : this page suggests that you can install Python 2 on a system that does not include Python 2 by default and also how to symlink it to Python using alternatives. Did you try it? It is very uncommon that something that runs on a RHEL version does not run on a correspnding CentOS version (and RHEL also does not have version-less "python" by default and recommend using alternatives). 

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