VMware OVA Images

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

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

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 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