Install SQL Server Agent on Red Hat

Today I will show you, you will see that installation is pretty simple and fast, it cointains only two commands. SQL Server Agent is responsible for scheduled jobs. I have already installed SQL Server 2017. My version of RHEL is "Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 7.6 (Maipo)"

"First of all, you have to connect as root user on your Linux machine!"

Run following comands:

1) First command provide installation of SQL Server Agent on RHEL:

In my case, my output looks like this:

NOTE:

If you get following message, you have probably new version of SQL Server CU4 and above, mssql-server-agent is included in installation SQL Server, but SQL Server Agent service is disable by deafult.

Run the following command for ENABLE SQL Server Agent and restart SQL Server service:

Now we check if new update of SQL Server Agent exists, run following commands:

See you!