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VMWare OVA Images (Legacy)

Alternatively, if you have VMWare, you can use our OVA image.

NOTE: This guide is for the now legacy Fluency Collector on CentOS 7. As CentOS 7 officially reaches EOL on June 30, 2024, it is suggested to install the new collector, based on Rocky Linux 9.

Image Download​

Link to the OVA image for VMWare: https://s3.amazonaws.com/SecurityDo/images/FluencyESXiCollector-v692-202106.ova

The collector image is built on top of a minimal CentOS 7 install. Standard CentOS 7 procedures for network setup will work here.

Default VM Login​

The default credentials are:

user: root
pass: security

If the device is being accessed remotely, the console (terminal) can be reached via SSH on port 22.

Installing Automatic Updates​

Fluency collectors can automatically update when connected to a server. However, this is a recently added feature, and must be patched into the collector.

Allow automatic updates when connected to a Fluency server​

Download and install the patch via the following commands:

wget https://s3.amazonaws.com/SecurityDo/public/fluency_collector_patch_20230221.tar.gz
tar xvfz fluency_collector_patch_20230221.tar.gz 
cd fluency_collector_patch_20230221
./install.sh

This will install a new service on the collector and allow Fluency collector to download and install updates (via the server). No further action is needed after the patch. 

Fluency Portal Configurations​

Refer to Adding a Collector.

Connecting the collector to a Fluency server​

Obtain a collector token from your Fluency server. Once a collector Token is obtained from the server, it must be added to the Collector appliance. On the collector appliance, a command is provided: (For IPv4 addresses: <server-url> should be in the form <https://server-ipv4>; IPv6 addresses: <https://[server-ipv6]>, note the additional brackets)

mgmt add_server https://<companyname>.cloud.fluencysecurity.com <your-token>

This completes the procedures to deploy and configure a Fluency Virtual collector. Refresh the Collectors page on the Fluency portal. The status indicator for the new collector should now be “Green”.

NOTE: If a Server has previously been configured, running the above command will overwrite those settings.

Additional Info​

MD5 Checksum of the ova file is:

hliu@server$ md5sum FluencyESXiCollector-v692-202106.ova
3ef699ac55007a8a381fd96365f3d00b  FluencyESXiCollector-v692-202106.ova

Page last updated: 2023 Dec 07