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Installing the vFense *nix agent

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Humberto Chacon edited this page Jul 5, 2014 · 6 revisions

Installation from release packages

To download the agent please visit https://github.com/vFense/vFenseAgent-nix/releases and check for the release marked as Latest Release.

Mac Preparation

  1. Download the Mac agent.
  2. Mount the dmg image.
  3. Open up a terminal.

Linux Preparation

  1. Download the Linux agent.
  2. Untar the tarball.
  3. Open up a terminal.

Installation

Installation of the agent is done by using the install script provided inside the dmg/tar. Please note that if any of the arguments provided to the script options have symbols then they should be surrounded with single quotes.

Common installs are as follows:

sudo ./install -u 'username' -p 'password' -s 'Server Hostname' -c 'Customer'

or

sudo ./install -u 'username' -p 'password' -i 'Server IP Address' -c 'Customer'

To see the other possible options for the install script, please run: ./install -h

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