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Downloading and installing the Secure Agent on Windows

To install the Secure Agent on a Windows machine, you must download and run the Secure Agent installation program and then register the agent.

Secure Agent registration requires an install token. To get the install token, copy the token when you download the agent or use the

Generate Install Token

option in

Administrator

. The token expires after 24 hours.

Before you download and install the Secure Agent, verify that no other Secure Agent is installed on the machine. If there is, you must uninstall it.

To verify the checksum of the Secure Agent installation program, use the agent REST API version 2 resource. For more information about the agent resource, see

REST API Reference

Open

Administrator

and select

Runtime Environments

On the

Runtime Environments

page, click

Download Secure Agent

Select the Windows 64-bit operating system platform, copy the install token, and then click

Download

The installation program is downloaded to your machine. The name of the installation program is

agent64_install_ng_ext.<agent core version>.exe

Run the installation program as an Administrator:

Specify the Secure Agent installation directory, and click

Click

Install

to install the agent.

The Secure Agent Manager opens and prompts you to register the agent as shown in the following image:

The Secure Agent Manager displays a message alerting you that the Secure Agent has not been registered. To register the agent, you must enter your user name in the User Name field, paste the install token into the Install Token field, and then click Register.

If you did not copy the install token when you downloaded the agent, click

Generate Install Token

on the

Runtime Environments

page in

Administrator

, and copy the token.

In the Secure Agent Manager, enter the following information, and then click

Option	Description
User Name	User name that you use to access Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services .
Install Token	Token that you copied.

The Secure Agent Manager displays the status of the Secure Agent. It takes a minute for all of the services to start.

If your organization uses an outgoing proxy server to connect to the internet, enter the proxy server information.

Close the Secure Agent Manager.

The Secure Agent Manager minimizes to the taskbar and continues to run as a service until stopped.

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Downloading and installing the Secure Agent on Windows

Downloading and installing the Secure Agent on Windows