Windows Agent silent install

[Randy Dover]

I looked in the Mailing List Archive for silently installing the OSSEC agent on Windows machine.

I saw the thread that gave the command of \\path\ossec-agent-win32-latest.exe /S to perform a silent install. (A word to all else who see this thread - the "S" is case sensitive, it has to be upper case!)

I pushed it out with a script using our Altiris Deployment Server. Altiris showed a successful completion, but I didn't think it worked because when I went to the PC, I didn't see an OSSEC menu group under All Programs in the Start menu.

So, I ran the ossec-agent-win32-latest.exe command and it gave me a message that the OSSEC agent was running and asked if I wanted to stop it.

That let me know that the install was successful.

Why didn't it create a menu group? Can I force it to create a menu group or should I just copy the OSSEC group in to the "Start" menu?

Randy Dover

[Jefferson, Shawn]

I believe that the ossec menu group only gets put into the user’s profile that installed it.  I use Bigfix/Tivoli and it runs as SYSTEM, so no start menu.  Check that the ossec directory exists under C:\Program Files and also that the service exists.

 

I’m not sure about Altiris, but Bigfix/Tivoli allows you to monitor/report on these things.

 

See how I’ve set that up here:

http://shawnjefferson.blogspot.com/2010/10/monitoring-your-ossec-installation-with.html