Manually installing tcpdump tool in Deep Security Virtual Appliance (DSVA)

- Updated:
- 30 Dec 2019
- Product/Version:
- Deep Security 9.6
- Platform:
- CentOS 6 64-bit

Summary

Deep Security Virtual Appliance (DSVA) does not provide tcpdump tool by default. This tool is needed to troubleshoot some case such as WRS and communication issues. Learn how to manually install tcpdump tool.

Details

To manually install tcpdump tool:

Download the rpm package for tcpdump.
Log in to DSVA via SSH as DSVA user. The default password is “dsva”.
Switch to root user using this command: $sudo -s
Upload the package to DSVA under path:/home/dsva. You can use WinSCP for the transmission.
Unpack the tar package:
# tar xzvf tcpdump_dsva9.5.tar.gz
Install the rpm packages:
# rpm -ivh libpcap*.rpm tcpdump*.rpm

After installing the tcpdump packages, you can now use the tcpdump command the usual way to capture network traffic.

Rating:

Category:

Troubleshoot; Install

Solution Id:

1107530

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