Install the New Relic plugin agent

The New Relic plugin agent polls supported back-end systems and submits the results to the New Relic platform. Follow these installation steps:

• Install the agent using pip:

    $ sudo pip install newrelic-plugin-agent
  
    Downloading/unpacking newrelic-plugin-agent
    Downloading newrelic_plugin_agent-1.3.0.tar.gz
    Running setup.py egg_info for package newrelic-plugin-agent
  
    Downloading/unpacking helper>=2.2.2 (from newrelic-plugin-agent)
    Downloading helper-2.4.1.tar.gz
    Running setup.py egg_info for package helper
  
    Downloading/unpacking requests>=2.0.0 (from newrelic-plugin-agent)
    Downloading requests-2.3.0.tar.gz (429kB): 429kB downloaded
    Running setup.py egg_info for package requests
  
    Requirement already satisfied (use --upgrade to upgrade): pyyaml in /opt/bitnami/python/lib/python2.7/site-packages (from helper>=2.2.2->newrelic-plugin-agent)
    Installing collected packages: newrelic-plugin-agent, helper, requests
    Running setup.py install for newrelic-plugin-agent
  
    Installing newrelic-plugin-agent script to /opt/bitnami/python/bin
    Running setup.py install for helper
  
    Found existing installation: requests 1.2.3
    Uninstalling requests:
      Successfully uninstalled requests
    Running setup.py install for requests
  
    Successfully installed newrelic-plugin-agent helper requests
    Cleaning up...
  

• Run the following command to start the New Relic Plugin agent:

    $ sudo python /opt/bitnami/python/bin/newrelic-plugin-agent -c /opt/newrelic-plugin-agent/newrelic-plugin-agent.cfg -f
  

  It is also possible to run the plugin agent without specifying the python command before. To do this, change the first line of the /opt/bitnami/python/bin/newrelic-plugin-agent script as follows:

    #!/usr/bin/env python
  

  Then, start the agent using the following command:

    $ sudo newrelic-plugin-agent -c /opt/newrelic-plugin-agent/newrelic-plugin-agent.cfg -f