Sorry Martin, the script takes for granted that your environment already has this agent process running, which it does by default if you log into a linux machine via GUI.

You’re using putty to access that Azzure Ubuntu VM and you’re trying to run Azure_ArangoDB_Cluster.sh in there, right?

If you want to make the agent persistently available, you can edit your .bash_profile loginscript and add it there:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18880024/start-ssh-agent-on-login

and re-login to find it running.

You can also run it by hand on each login:

me@ubuntu:~$ ssh-agent
SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/tmp/ssh-mJiV6G50CDvQ/agent.12345; export SSH_AUTH_SOCK;
SSH_AGENT_PID=12345; export SSH_AGENT_PID;
echo Agent pid 12345;

You then cut’n’paste the first two lines it printed back into your shell, and you’re ready to continue with Heikos script.

I tried to follow your guide but unfortunately I only got to the error message “No SSH-Agent running”. I am using a vanilla Ubuntu 14.04 VM in Azure and followed every step you mentioned.

Any ideas of what’s going wrong?