Agent Install Fails - Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

[mattdunn4465]

cd /tmp
sudo wget https://github.com/vFense/vFenseAgent-nix/releases/download/v0.7.2/VFAgent_0_7_2-deb.tar.gz
sudo tar -xzf VFAgent_0_7_2-deb.tar.gz
cd VFAgent_0_7_2
sudo ./install -u 'admin' -p 'blahblahblah' -s 'vfense.example.com' -c 'default'

I get

Error(s):
- Failed to reach: "vfense.example.com"

I have tried via IP and it does the same thing. This only happens on my 16.04 boxes. Any help?

[ddelapaz]

Unless that is a local domain it is unreachable or simply doesn't exist... Do you own example.com? I

[mattdunn4465]

That's not the real domain. Worse case if it was, i'd just add it to the /etc/hosts file but either way, that's not the issue. DNS resolves fine and network connectivity is fine.

The issue is probably how the installer attempts to lookup/connect to the host you specific. Internally on ubuntu something probably changed in the network/dns stack going from 14.04 to 16.04.

Try it out and you'll see what I mean. Simple attempt to install the agent on an Ubuntu 16.04 server and it will fail to contact the vFense server and faild to install. I'll probably have to debug later tomorrow the installer scripts

[MrMEEE]

Hi

Had the same problem.. curl is probably more restrictive in 16.04.. so it fails because of a self-signed certificate...

I had to generate a new self-signed certificate for nginx and trust the certificate locally on the server to get it working..

[mattdunn4465]

Make sense, I'll just install an actual cert and update nginx. However now I can't download the agent tarball

[MrMEEE]

You can create it yourself with the /agent/devtools/build_agent in the vFenseAgent-nix repo...

We have forked the project here: https://github.com/MrMEEE/vFenseAgent

And have solved some issues... see the commits...