Packetbeat is a lightweight network packet analyzer that can capture, decode, and analyze packets in real time. It is part of the Elastic Stack, which also includes Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana. In this tutorial, you will learn how to install Packetbeat on Fedora CoreOS Latest.
Before you start, make sure you have the following:
Packetbeat is distributed as an RPM package, which you can download from the Elastic website. To download the RPM package, open your web browser and navigate to the following URL:
https://artifacts.elastic.co/downloads/beats/packetbeat/packetbeat-7.11.1-x86_64.rpm
Note: You should replace the version number with the latest version available.
Once you have downloaded the RPM package, you can use the following command to install it:
sudo rpm -ivh packetbeat-7.11.1-x86_64.rpm
Note: You should replace the version number with the latest version you have downloaded.
After the Packetbeat RPM package is installed, you need to configure it before you can use it. The configuration file is located at /etc/packetbeat/packetbeat.yml. You can edit the file using your favorite text editor, such as vim, nano, or emacs.
sudo vim /etc/packetbeat/packetbeat.yml
In the configuration file, you need to specify the network interface that Packetbeat should monitor. You can do this by adding the following lines to the packetbeat.interfaces section:
packetbeat.interfaces.device: eth0
Note: You should replace
eth0with the name of the network interface that you want to use.
After you have configured Packetbeat, you can start the service using the following command:
sudo systemctl start packetbeat
To make Packetbeat start automatically at boot time, you can enable the service using the following command:
sudo systemctl enable packetbeat
In this tutorial, you have learned how to install Packetbeat on Fedora CoreOS Latest. You have downloaded the RPM package, installed it, configured it, and started the service. Now, you can use Packetbeat to capture and analyze network traffic in real time.
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