How-to Guides

Step-by-step instructions for accomplishing specific tasks with LinuxGuard. These guides assume you have basic familiarity with Linux system administration and are looking to complete a particular operation.

How-to guides are goal-oriented and practical. They guide you through the steps required to solve a real-world problem, without extensive explanation of underlying concepts. Each guide focuses on achieving a specific outcome efficiently.

Getting Started with LinuxGuard

Before installing LinuxGuard, you'll need to complete these three essential steps:

1. Prerequisites — Verify your system meets the requirements and gather the necessary credentials

2. Installation — Install the LinuxGuard agent using your preferred method

3. Configuration — Configure the agent and enroll it with your tenant

In This Section

Installation

• Installation Overview — Choose your installation method: unified installer script or per-distribution guides

• Debian / Ubuntu — Install on Debian-based systems using APT package manager

• RedHat / CentOS — Install on RedHat-based systems using DNF/YUM package manager

• SUSE / openSUSE — Install on SUSE-based systems using zypper package manager

• Alpine Linux — Install on Alpine Linux using APK package manager

• Container Installation — Run LinuxGuard agent in containerized environments

Setup & Management

• Prerequisites — System requirements, network access, and credential preparation

• Configuration — Agent configuration, enrollment flags, and service management

• Uninstallation — Remove the LinuxGuard agent from your systems

Integrations

• Configure Notification Rules — Create rules that route LinuxGuard signals to your alerting and SIEM destinations

• Webhook Integration — Configure webhook endpoints with HMAC signature verification and full payload reference

• Syslog Forwarding — Forward signals to any SIEM using RFC 3164 or RFC 5424 with structured data

• Splunk HEC Integration — Configure Splunk HTTP Event Collector with the correct authorization and event schema

Automated Deployment

• Automated Deployment Overview — Compare all six deployment automation methods and choose the right one for your environment

• Deploy with Ansible — Install and enroll LinuxGuard using an Ansible role with Ansible Vault secrets management

• Deploy with AWS EC2 User-Data — Bootstrap LinuxGuard on EC2 instances using IAM roles and Secrets Manager

• Deploy with GCP Startup Script — Deploy LinuxGuard on Compute Engine using startup scripts with Secret Manager

• Deploy with Azure — Deploy LinuxGuard on Azure VMs using cloud-init and Managed Identity with Key Vault

• Deploy with Chef — Install and enroll LinuxGuard using a Chef cookbook with chef-vault secrets management

• Deploy with Puppet — Install and enroll LinuxGuard using a Puppet module with Hiera eyaml secrets management

Related Sections

Looking for something else?

• Tutorials — Learn LinuxGuard through hands-on guided experiences

• Reference — Look up CLI commands, supported distributions, and terminology

• Explanation — Understand the security architecture and design decisions behind LinuxGuard

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