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Before You Begin

Uninstalling third-party antivirus products is recommended before installing and configuring these security tools.

These instructions and the provided installer are intended for personally owned devices. If you have a University-owned device, please contact your IT support person or the Help Center at support@nebraska.edu.

Note: Cortex XDR is currently supported on the following Linux distributions:

  • Amazon 2
  • Redhat 7 & 8
  • Ubuntu 12, 14, 16 & 18
  • Centos 7 & 8
  • Debian 9
  • Oracle 6, 7 & 8
  • Suse 12 & 15

For more information, see Cortex XDR for Linux Requirements.

Installation Instructions

Download Links:

UNCA: Click here.

UNL: Click here.

UNK: Click here.

UNO: Click here.

 

 

All the distributions will need preparations before installing and these steps apply the same on all distributions. Access to Root, Administrator, or Sudo is required.

Steps:​​​​​​​

  • Open a command line.
  • Then untar and unzip.
  • Move the file.
  • Install the application.
  • Check logs if error occurred.

First, untar and unzip.

:~$tar xzvf <name_of_file.tar.gz> 

Before installing the agent, please copy `cortex.conf` into `/etc/panw/` directory.

 

For root or su

:~$ su - 

:~# mkdir -p /etc/panw 

:~# cp ./cortex.conf /etc/panw/ 

 

For sudo steps  

sudo mkdir -p /etc/panw

Type the user password.

sudo cp ./cortex.conf /etc/panw/

 

If you need to return to the directory where the agent is located, you can cd – or cd  and type the full path.

Let's Get Started with Debian

Instructions will be written and after the screenshots, it will provide something to compare – The command instructions are using "su -" to gain root access.

dpkg -i cortex-7.7.1.61152.deb

If errors occurred, followed these suggestions to list or query and see the log file.

 

sudo dpkg-query -l

The log file location: /var/log/syslog

 

 

Ubuntu

Instructions will be written and after the screenshots, it will provide something to compare –

sudo dpkg -i cortex-7.7.1.61152.deb

If errors occurred, followed these suggestions to list or query and see the log file.

 

sudo dpkg-query -l

The log file location: /var/log/syslog

 

 

RedHat

Instructions will be written and after the screenshots, it will provide something to compare –

root@server ~# rpm -i cortex-7.7.1.61152.rpm

If errors occurred, followed these suggestions to list or query and see the log file.

Query the RPM database: 

$ rpm -qa –last 

The log file location: /var/log/message 

 

 

OpenSUSE

 

Instructions will be written and after the screenshots, it will provide something to compare –

~# zypper install ./cortex-7.7.1.61152.rpm

Y for install

I for ignore key

 

This Guide Applies To:

Device Security - Cortex XDR
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