Download and Set Up Cloud Protect Fleet Agent (SQLcl)

Use these steps to download the RPM required to install the Cloud Protect Fleet Agent (SQLcl) on the target database server.

1. Download the RPM required to install SQLcl.
   • Package for SQLcl on Oracle Linux 8 (x86-64)
   • Package for SQLcl on Oracle Linux 9 (x86-64)
2. Install the RPM on each compute node, as shown in this example.

   root@computenode# rpm -ivh /test/sqlcl-linux-25.3.0-1.el8.x86_64.rpm

   
   Verifying...                          ################################# [100%]
   Preparing...                          ################################# [100%]
   Updating / installing...
   1:sqlcl-linux-25.3.0-1.el8         ################################# [100%]

3. Enable the scheduler to start on system start up, as shown in this example.

   root@computenode# systemctl enable sql-scheduler

   Synchronizing state of sql-scheduler.service with SysV service script with /usr/lib/systemd/systemd-sysv-install.
     Executing: /usr/lib/systemd/systemd-sysv-install enable sql-scheduler
     Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/sql-scheduler.service → /etc/systemd/system/sql-scheduler.service.
     Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/graphical.target.wants/sql-scheduler.service → /etc/systemd/system/sql-scheduler.service.

4. Start the scheduler.

   root@computenode# systemctl start sql-scheduler

5. Check the status of the scheduler, as shown in this example.

   [root@nshqaw20adm05 ~]# systemctl status sql-scheduler
   

   
      sql-scheduler.service - SQLcl scheduler services
      Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/sql-scheduler.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
      Active: active (running) since Mon 2025-10-06 00:25:33 EDT;

6. Set the SQLcl binary for the Oracle software owner user (oracle).
   Add the SQLcl binary location in the PATH environment variable, as shown below.

   export PATH=/opt/oracle/sqlcl/bin:$PATH