Installing

BMC Defender Agent for Unix/Linux is usually delivered as an embedded component of BMC AMI Command Center for Security and BMC Defender SIEM Correlation Server (also known as BMC Defender Server). You can download it from the BMC Defender Server home screen to various UNIX platforms via a web browser. You can fetch specific tar.gz files for various UNIX platforms through a web browser, or push these packages to UNIX platforms using FTP. Downloading the embedded component helps ensure connectivity between the UNIX platform and BMC Defender Server, and provides a consistent way of controlling downloads within the enterprise.

BMC Defender Agent for Unix/Linux

is specifically designed not to scatter files into UNIX system directories. All UNIX files reside in a single directory selected by the root administrator. This directory is typically /opt/BMC Defender or /usr/local/BMC Defender.

After the UNIX files are installed on a platform, the root administrator configures and edits the CO-logmon.cnf or CO-fmon.cnf files (provided as part of the distribution) to supply the value for destinationAddress (the IP address of the BMC Defender Server). The root administrator then launches the CO-logmon program or CO-fmon program as a background process and configures the program to launch via system startup.

This section provides installation requirements and generic procedural steps to install any version of 

BMC Defender Agent for Unix/Linux

on a UNIX platform.

This section contains the following topics: 

Update considerations

Before you update the 

BMC Defender Agent for Unix/Linux

product, back up the following configuration files. Replace installationDirectory with the directory in which you installed the product. Typical installation paths include /opt/BMCDefender or /usr/local/BMCDefender. Make sure that you back up any configuration files (*.cnf) and command files (*.cmd):

• installationDirectory/*.cnf
• installationDirectory/*.cmd