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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...
Ofer_Shezaf
Microsoft
MicrosoftTheBigBear, 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?
Hi Ofer_Shezaf, yes, well summarised.
Or alternatively, as a time-limited workaround, until the MMA code is upgraded to python 3.x 'simply' change the MS MMA to be more specific and actually use python2 and not just python.
That way the Linux os can do the right thing. And all Linux distros I know off do support having more than one version of python installed in parallel, but in order to get to an older version one simply has to be more precise and call on it by issuing 'python2' and not just 'python'
But medium and longer-term the MS MMA should be based on python 3 and not on python 2 which is EOL now.