How To Install prelude-manager on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install prelude-manager on Kali Linux. prelude-manager is Security Information and Events Management System [ Manager ]

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install prelude-manager on Kali Linux.

What is prelude-manager

prelude-manager is:

Prelude Manager is the main program of the Prelude SIEM suite. It is a multithreaded server which handles connections from the Prelude sensors. It is able to register local or remote sensors, 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 relaying and logging.

This package provides the Prelude Manager, which is a high availability server that accepts secured connections from distributed sensors or other managers and saves received events to a media specified by the user (database, log files, mail, etc).

There are three methods to install prelude-manager on Kali Linux. 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-manager 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-manager using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install prelude-manager

Install prelude-manager Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install prelude-manager using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install prelude-manager

Install prelude-manager Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install prelude-manager using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install prelude-manager

How To Uninstall prelude-manager on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the prelude-manager package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove prelude-manager

Uninstall prelude-manager And Its Dependencies

To uninstall prelude-manager and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove prelude-manager

Remove prelude-manager Configurations and Data

To remove prelude-manager configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge prelude-manager

Remove prelude-manager configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove prelude-manager configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge prelude-manager

Dependencies

prelude-manager have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install prelude-manager package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.