How To Install prelude-manager on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install prelude-manager on CentOS 7.
What is prelude-manager
Prelude Manager is the main program of the Prelude SIEM suite. It is a multithreaded server which handles connections from the Prelude modules. It is able to register local or remote agents, let the operator configure them remotely, receive alerts, and store alerts in a database or any format supported by reporting plugins, thus providing centralized logging and analysis. The IDMEF standard is used for alert representation. Support for filtering plugins allows you to hook in different places in the Manager to define custom criteria for alert logging.
We can use yum or dnf to install prelude-manager on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install prelude-manager.
Install prelude-manager on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install prelude-manager using yum by running the following command:
Install prelude-manager 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.
After updating yum database, We can install prelude-manager using dnf by running the following command:
How To Uninstall prelude-manager on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the prelude-manager package we can use the following command:
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install prelude-manager on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.