Manually install SSM Agent on Red Hat Enterprise Linux instances
Connect to your RHEL instance and perform the following steps to install SSM Agent. Perform these steps on each instance that will run commands using Systems Manager.
If you use a yum
command to update SSM Agent on a managed instance after
the agent has been installed or updated using the SSM document AWS-UpdateSSMAgent
, you might see
the following message: "Warning: RPMDB altered outside of yum." This message is expected
and can
be safely ignored.
If you're unable to download the agent from the Region you specify, use one of the global URLs below. Note that even though the following URLs show 'ec2-downloads-windows', these are the correct URLs for Linux operating systems.
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Intel 64-bit (x86_64)
https://s3.amazonaws.com/ec2-downloads-windows/SSMAgent/latest/linux_amd64/amazon-ssm-agent.rpm
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Intel 32-bit (x86)
https://s3.amazonaws.com/ec2-downloads-windows/SSMAgent/latest/linux_386/amazon-ssm-agent.rpm
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ARM 64-bit (arm64)
https://s3.amazonaws.com/ec2-downloads-windows/SSMAgent/latest/linux_arm64/amazon-ssm-agent.rpm
An updated version of SSM Agent is released whenever new capabilities are added to
Systems Manager or
updates are made to existing capabilities. If an older version of the agent is running
on an
instance, some SSM Agent processes can fail. For that reason, we recommend that you
automate
the process of keeping SSM Agent up-to-date on your instances. For information, see
Automating updates to SSM Agent. To be notified about SSM Agent updates, subscribe to the SSM Agent
Release Notes