Upgrading Wazuh agents

Follow these steps to update your Wazuh v1.x agents to Wazuh v2.x.

  1. On DEB or RPM based Linux systems, you can easily rely on the packages manager to upgrade your agents. The process differs very little from installing a new agent. More information is available in our documentation at:

You can check your agent version by running the following command:

# /var/ossec/bin/manage_agents -V
Wazuh v2.0 - Wazuh Inc.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License (version 2) as
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  1. On Windows, Mac OS and other operating systems, we advise you to delete your previous version and install Wazuh v2.x from scratch. More information is available in our documentation at: