Setting up Wazuh on Virtual Machine (OVA)

1. First download the OVA file.
2. Open and import the ova file in Virtual Box and set up a name and location where you need your data to be stored.

3. Boot in the virtual machine using following credentials:

User: wazuh-user Password: wazuh

4. Set VM setting as follows

5. After logging in you will get the following screen

6. Check for the ip address of the server using command “ip a”

7. Hit the browser with the following URL to check if wazuh is up.

https://<wazuh_server_ip&gt;

In our case it will be https://192.168.29.160

You will get the following web page

8. Use the default credentials to login

User: admin Password: admin

9. You will get the following console:

Setting up an agent on the endpoint.

Once you login into the wazuh dashboard you can add agents:

On clicking Agents option you will get the following page:

Click on “Deploy new agent” option:

You will get the below screen.

Select the required options. For our case the configuration will look like this:

At last wazuh will generate a command which needs to be run with admin privileges to install and start the agent:

Open powershell with admin permissions and insert the command as shown in wazuh:

Start the agent:

Go back to agents page there you can see that your agent is live and running:

Till now,we have seen how to set up wazuh and install agent.

Later we will cover every feature of the wazuh.