4. Sensor Installation Steps
- Connect the interface with access to internet to eth0 and connect the mirrored port to eth1 of the sensor.
- Install the sensor software
- If you are installing to a physical appliance please insert the previously created USB media which contains sensor ISO in bootable format and boot the hardware
- If you are installing to a virtual machine please mount the .iso into the virtual optical drive and start up the VM
- If you are installing to a virtual machine please be sure that capture interface of virtual machine allows promiscuous mode
- If you do not see 64 bit virtual machine profiles you may wish to double check that VT is
enabled in the BIOS.
- When the Xcitium Sensor boot splash prompt is visible, please choose the appropriate option.
- “Install cWatch Sensor” is regular installation option on virtual devices and hardwares with display outputs.
- If you want to install the appliance to a hardware over console cable, please select “Install cWatch Sensor over console (115200 bps)” option.
- During installation, you should wait some time to finish.The
following screen is shown when installation is complete. Press ENTER
to finish installation.
- You need to wait until the “Dracut Warning: Killing all remaining processes' 'Halting' ” message appears:
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Installation is complete.
- Remove the USB Flash media and reboot the physical device, or
- Dismount the .ISO and reboot the virtual machine
- If required, take a snapshot to store the current status