How To Install prewikka on CentOS 8

prewikka is Graphical front-end analysis console for IDMEF

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install prewikka on CentOS 8.

What is prewikka

Prewikka is the backend of the web browser interface of Prelude SIEM. Providing numerous features, Prewikka facilitates the work of users and analysts. It provides alert aggregation and heartbeat views, and has user customization and configurable filters. Prewikka also provides access to external tools such as whois and traceroute.

We can use yum or dnf to install prewikka on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install prewikka.

Install prewikka on CentOS 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install prewikka using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install prewikka

Install prewikka on CentOS 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install prewikka using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install prewikka

How To Uninstall prewikka on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the prewikka package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove prewikka

prewikka Package Contents on CentOS 8

/etc/prewikka
/etc/prewikka/conf.d
/etc/prewikka/conf.d/auth.conf
/etc/prewikka/conf.d/external_app.conf
/etc/prewikka/conf.d/logs.conf
/etc/prewikka/conf.d/riskoverview.conf
/etc/prewikka/menu.yml
/etc/prewikka/prewikka.conf
/usr/share/doc/prewikka
/usr/share/doc/prewikka/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/prewikka/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/prewikka/README
/usr/share/licenses/prewikka
/usr/share/licenses/prewikka/COPYING
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/prewikka.mo
/usr/share/locale/en/LC_MESSAGES/prewikka.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/prewikka.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/prewikka.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/prewikka.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/prewikka.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/prewikka.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/prewikka.mo
/usr/share/prewikka
/usr/share/prewikka/prewikka.wsgi

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install prewikka on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.