How To Install prelude-correlator on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install prelude-correlator on Debian 9.
What is prelude-correlator
prelude-correlator is:
Prelude is a Universal “Security Information Management” (SIM) system. Prelude collects, normalizes, sorts, aggregates, correlates and reports all security-related events independently of the source or event.
This package provides the Prelude Correlator, which is a powerful correlation engine using Python to write correlation rules.
The features currently include:
- Rapid identification of important security events, enabling the analyst to assign task priorities
- Alert correlation originally from heterogeneous sensors deployed on the whole infrastructure
- Real-time analysis of events received by the Prelude Manager
There are three methods to install prelude-correlator on Debian 9. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install prelude-correlator Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install prelude-correlator using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install prelude-correlator
Install prelude-correlator Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install prelude-correlator using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install prelude-correlator
Install prelude-correlator Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install prelude-correlator using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install prelude-correlator
How To Uninstall prelude-correlator on Debian 9
To uninstall only the prelude-correlator package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove prelude-correlator
Uninstall prelude-correlator And Its Dependencies
To uninstall prelude-correlator and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove prelude-correlator
Remove prelude-correlator Configurations and Data
To remove prelude-correlator configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge prelude-correlator
Remove prelude-correlator configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove prelude-correlator configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge prelude-correlator
Dependencies
prelude-correlator have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install prelude-correlator package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
