Overview
The Live Optics collector software is available for download from the command line on all supported operating systems. Below are the instructions on how to download Live optics software using WGET and CURL from a terminal session in a Linux OS.
Access Live Optics Collector Download page
- Login to the Live Optics portal https://app.liveoptics.com If you have never logged into Live Optics before, go to https://www.liveoptics.com/signup and request your account be created or contact your Dell Sales Team and request they register you to the Live Optics portal.
- Click on "Collectors" from the listing in the side menu. After the side menu has expanded, click "Download Collector".
Generate and copy Live Optics download link
Before using WGET or CURL to download Live Optics, you must first generate the custom download link to use with either program. From within the collector download page, click "More Info" followed by the "Download via command line" for the version of Live Optics you wish to run.
NOTE: all of the Live Optics OS versions are available to command line download.
Click the "Copy” to get the custom URL generated for the Live Optics collector software before beginning to download the collector package from the command line.
Download using WGET or CURL
WGET Instructions from Linux
Open a terminal session in your preferred Linux OS and enter the WGET command. This will download a file named liveoptics.tar.gz from the URL. Below is an example of the proper command syntax of WGET:
wget -O liveoptics.tar.gz 'https://app.liveoptics.com/collector/direct?request=00006443-4b1d-4277-baae-7f8beeb15822&template=673'
CURL Instructions from Linux
Open a terminal session in your preferred Linux OS and enter the CURL command. Below is an example of the proper command syntax of CURL:
curl -o liveoptics.tar.gz 'https://app.liveoptics.com/collector/direct?request=00006443-4b1d-4277-baae-7f8beeb15822&template=673'
WGET (Invoke-WebRequest) Instructions from Windows PowerShell
Open a Windows PowerShell terminal and enter the WGET (Invoke-WebRequest) command. Below is an example of the proper command syntax:
wget 'https://app.liveoptics.com/collector/direct?request=00006443-4b1d-4277-baae-7f8beeb15822&template=673'-OutFile liveoptics.zip
Execute the Live Optics collector software
The download will either be the *.zip (Windows) or *.tar.gz (Linux) package. Use the OS tools to extract the compressed package, and then run the collector executable.
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