MS Azure VM Agent SLES 11 SP2

Question

Hello ALL. I have a work order system that is running on SLES 11 SP2. I have converted it to a VHD. It is migrating to a storage account as we speak. SSH was already running on it, and I set it to DHCP before converting it. Is there an Azure VM agent out there somewhere for SLES 11 SP2? I am hoping it will still boot up in azure, without the agent on it yet. What do you think my mileage will be getting this to work in Azure? And where can I get the agent? I know it won't be supported, but as long as it runs with network connectivity, I'm happy with that. I would just automate a database dump from it every night using rclone.

Any tips would be great, and the location of the agent would be great too.

Answer 1

@Administrator Welcome to Microsoft Q&A, Thank you for posting your here!

To install Azure Linux agent on SLES 11 SP2 please refer the document here

To update the Azure Linux Agent on a VM please check here
Hope this helps!
Kindly let us know if the above helps or you need further assistance on this issue.

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Please do not forget to "Accept the answer” and “up-vote” wherever the information provided helps you, this can be beneficial to other community members.

Answer 2

Unfortunately, I already saw these links. I did a pretty good amount of research before posting this question. If you look inside either of those links, you will see the REPO does not currently HOLD SLES 11 SP2 a waagent anymore, only SLES 11 SP4, SLES 12, and SLES 15 are in there. The version I have is fully functional, but it DOES NOT support updates anymore, and so I cannot go to version SP4, and I must stay on SP2. So this is why I am asking if there is a version of the SLES 11 SP2 waagent anywhere I can download.

If I am missing something please do point it out, and where the client is for SLES 11 SP2. As well, can you or someone confirm the following? If I were to find the agent, and install it, would this be enough for it to run in AZURE? I read the documentation here for sending up a pre-made install (None endorsed version of Linux) (I have successfully done this with windows, but want to make sure the recipe will work for SLES 11/12).

• Set the image to DHCP (Do I need to set a static gateway route, or is DHCP enough to populate the gateway in SLES 11, sometimes I find SLES 11 is finicky about this)
• Turned off all firewalls
• Made sure SSH was on (Not sure if its 5.3 + would have to check)
• It says to remove the SWAP partition, so If I just remove the swap partition, and make it a VHD, will Azure build a virtual swap? It seems to me, the agent has to exist on it first for this to happen, so my question is, does the agent need to exist inside the VHD before I upload it to s storage account? (For windows I'm confident it does and I've always had success with that)
• It seems to me the VHD would not be provisioned without it.

For anyone who has sent up an already on-prem running VM with SLES 11 SP2, can you provide me with some guidance. Am I close, I feel like I am.

If anyone DOES have the agent still for SLES 11 SP2, would you be kind enough to pass it to me.

Answer 3

One more thing, it seems I may be able to pull old versions of the agent from the GIThub repo, but I am not sure what version of the waagent was for SLES 11 SP2. SOme help with that would be great too.