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Installing a Wazuh Linux agent

Installing a Wazuh Linux agent

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Installing a Wazuh Linux agent

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- [Instructor] Now we have the Wazuh server operational, we can monitor hosts which have a Wazuh agent installed. Let's install one in our web01 web server. The first thing we need to do is download the GPG key for Wazuh and update our sources. And we'll do this in an admin session. I've put the commands into a small script for convenience. sudo su, and the scripts are called wagent.sh. And we're just curling the GPG down into our web server and updating our repository lists. Let's run this. wagent.sh. Okay, we can now point to the Wazuh server and install the agent. WAZUH_MANAGER="192.168.1.103" apt install wazuh-agent. Okay, we've installed the Wazuh agent. Let's just check the configuration file by nano /var /ossec /etc /ossec.conf. And we can see our IP address is 103. We now need to enable the Wazuh agent to start on boot. And we'll do that with systemctl daemon-reload. And then systemctl enable wazuh-agent, and we'll start it now. Okay, that's running. So let's go back to our…

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