Linux Agent Installation Prerequisites
Complete the following steps before you install the agent.
- Verify that the Lacework agent supports the distribution installed your machine. For more information, see Supported Operating Systems.
- Verify that your machine can connect to the internet.
- Use sed (GNU sed) version 4.2.2 or higher in the procedures.
- Download the release package
release.tgz
(replacerelease
with the agent release number) and thechecksum.txt
files from the Lacework Agent GitHub repository.- Click the Releases tab in the GitHub repository to view all the available agent releases.
- Find a release and click release.tgz (replace
release
with the agent release number) to download the file that contains the agent installers. - For the same release, click checksum.txt file to download the checksum file.
- Create a temporary directory such as ~/downloads/tmp and move the release.tgz and checksum.txt files to that directory.
- Verify that the checksum in the checksum.txt file matches the checksum of the release.tgz file.
- Open a terminal window go to the tmp directory.
cd ~/downloads/tmp
- Verify that the release.tgz matches the checksum.
md5sum -c checksum.txt
- If the verification is successful, the command displays
OK
.
- Open a terminal window go to the tmp directory.
- Unzip the release.tgz (replace
release
with the agent release number) file into a temporary directory. - Using the Lacework Console, create an agent access token using the instructions in Create Agent Access Tokens.
- In the Lacework Console, copy the Access Token by clicking the Copy to clipboard icon.