Okta Provisioning Agent Support in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
Apr 30, 2026
Lifecycle Management
Okta Classic Engine
Okta Identity Engine
Overview
This article clarifies whether Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 is supported as a platform for the On-Premise Provisioning (OPP) Agent.
Applies To
- On-Premise Provisioning (OPP) Agent
- User Lifecycle Management
- RHEL 8 (Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8)
- Okta Classic Engine
- Okta Identity Engine (OIE)
Solution
The Okta OPP Agent is supported for Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
In the Okta Admin Console, when navigating to Settings > Downloads, the OPP Agent can be found as an EXE, SDK, or RPM package. For Red Hat Linux, RPM packages can be installed using the default DNF package manager.
- Download the RPM file from the Downloads page, open the Terminal, and change the working directory to the folder containing the downloaded file.
- Run the command to install the package.
- Example:
sudo dnf install ./package.rpm
- Example:
NOTE: Use the full name of the downloaded file in place of "package.rpm".
For other Linux distros, the appropriate package manager for installing RPM packages must be used.
