How to manually verify that ampagent is installed on a linux server:

rpm -qa | grep -i "ampagent"

Manually installing KACE ampagent on RHEL 7.6

To set HOST with the Installer file (rename the msi installer file to include host name (FQDN) as follows (bolded)

        sudo rpm –Uvh ampagent-<version>.rhel.<bit-ness>_kace_sma.example.com.rpm

        FYI: This will signal to the installation that kace_sma.example.com is the KACE SMA to connect to

To set HOST with environment variable (has to be executed all on one line)

        sudo export KACE_SERVER=kace_sma.example.com rpm -Uvh ampagent-<version>.rhel.<bit-ness>.rpm

To set HOST with amp.conf (KACE SMA Management Agent configuration file)

        Ensure line in amp.conf for host entry is set

                host=kace_sma.example.com

When installing, or trying to install, ampagent on Red Hat you may get an error that lpstat is needed. lpstat can be installed with the following command:

sudo rpm install cups cups-client lpr