agent-auth

The agent-auth program is the client application used with ossec-authd to automatically add agents to an OSSEC manager.

agent-auth argument options

-h

Display the help message

-m <manager_ip>

IP address of the manager.

-p <port>

Port ossec-authd is running on. Default 1515

-A <agent_name>

Agent name to be used. Default hostname

-D

Directory where OSSEC is installed. Default /var/ossec

agent-auth example usage

Example: Adding an agent with a hostname

# /var/ossec/bin/agent-auth -m 192.168.1.1 -p 1515 -A example-agent
INFO: Connected to 192.168.1.1:1515
INFO: Using agent name as: melancia
INFO: Send request to manager. Waiting for reply.
INFO: Received response with agent key
INFO: Valid key created. Finished.
INFO: Connection closed.