manage_agents

manage_agents is available in two versions:

• a version for OSSEC server installations
• a version for OSSEC agent installations

The purpose of manage_agents is to provide an easy-to-use interface to handle authentication keys for OSSEC agents. These authentication keys are required for secure (encrypted and authenticated) communication between the OSSEC server and its affiliated agent instances.

manage_agents argument options

-h

Display the help message.

-V

Display OSSEC Version.

-l

List available agents.

-e <agent_id>

Extracts key for an agent (Manager only).

-i <key>

Import authentication key (Agent only).

Usage

The OSSEC manual goes into details on usage of this command at Working with Agents