• Introduction
• NxSensor Installation
  • Requirements
• 2. (Optional) Creating Installation Media
• 3. (Optional) Preparing Virtual Machine Environment
  • Create A New Virtual Machine
  • Configure Memory Size
  • Configure Hard Disk
  • View VM Summary
  • Select VM Startup Disk
• 4. Sensor Installation Steps
• 5. Sensor Configuration Steps
  • Login To The Web Portal
  • User Settings
  • Configure Network
  • Configure Timezone
  • Key Activation
  • (Optional) Valkyrie Key Verdict
  • (Optional) Log Forwarding
• Frequently Asked Questions
• About Xcitium

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.
  
  

• 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