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TheBigBear
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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 th...
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Ofer_Shezaf
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TheBigBear, So, to summarize, the challenge is not CentOS 8 support by itself. RHEL 8, which is officially supported, would still be an issue because running the agent requires making Python 2 the default. In other words, just certifying CentOS 8, without moving to Python 3, would not help here. Correct?  

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Ofer_Shezaf
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Jul 28, 2020

TheBigBear : one more thought: would keeping to Python 2 for now but ensruring the agent runs without requiring python 2 to be the system default be a reasonable interim solution? 

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    TheBigBear
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    Jul 28, 2020

    Ofer_Shezaf yes, that is a more succinct way of saying what I just replied, Messages crossed over. In mine, I just also spelled out one way I think this should work 'easily' ... 

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      Ofer_Shezaf
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      Jul 29, 2020

      TheBigBear : I had a chat with the agent PM and he told me that supporing systems with Python 3 is being worked on as we speak.  

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