How To Install nebula on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install nebula on CentOS 7. nebula is Intrusion signature generator

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install nebula on CentOS 7.

What is nebula

Nebula is an intrusion signature generator. It can help securing a network by automatically calculating filter rules from attack traces. In a common setup nebula runs as a daemon and receives attacks from honeypots.

We can use yum or dnf to install nebula on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install nebula.

Install nebula on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

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

sudo yum -y install nebula

Install nebula on CentOS 7 Using dnf

If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first. Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache

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

sudo dnf -y install nebula

How To Uninstall nebula on CentOS 7

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

sudo dnf remove nebula

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install nebula on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.