topic Can't automate the Cortex agent for Linux install due to the RPM issues in Cortex XDR Discussions

Can't automate the Cortex agent for Linux install due to the RPM issues

Megawatt — Fri, 28 Aug 2020 23:38:14 GMT

We are having issues with rolling out Cortex using automation tools. Since the RPM doesn't take care of figuring out dependencies by itself, you need to manually go install those dependencies and then install the RPM. This makes installs messy and, since there are different distros and versions of Linux in the environment, this breaks the ability for us to automate this without creating our own installation scripts (for each distro and version) and maintaining them ourselves.

Does anyone have any suggestions? We use salt.

Re: Can't automate the Cortex agent for Linux install due to the RPM issues

gjenkins — Thu, 12 Aug 2021 16:33:59 GMT

Hi @Megawatt,

There are package managers available for modern flavors of Linux. If you research one for your particular version, you should be able to use it to automate the dependency download and install. Is it possible for you to share the target version of Linux if this is still a concern for you?

Re: Can't automate the Cortex agent for Linux install due to the RPM issues

Megawatt — Thu, 12 Aug 2021 22:58:59 GMT

Yeah, but a good Linux RPM citizens takes care of this in their RPM so that the customer doesn't need to go figure those out. And this is a complete pain if those prerequisites change. Not to mention that this means you need to create a separate script for each linux (ver and/or flavor) you run. Seems lazy to not just follow RPM build capabilities like a SPEC file. Implies to a paying customer that the software isn't that much of a focus for Palo Alto.