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      • Wazuh server administration
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      • Registering Wazuh agents
        • Registering the Wazuh agents using the command line (CLI)
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        • Registering Wazuh agents - additional information
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      • Agent management
        • Agent life cycle
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      • Deploying a Wazuh cluster
        • Basics
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        • Monitoring security policies
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        • Testing decoders and rules
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        • Getting started
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      • Wazuh Kibana plugin
        • Setting up the Wazuh Kibana plugin
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      • Reference
        • Local configuration (ossec.conf)
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          • wodle name="open-scap"
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          • wodle name="cis-cat"
          • wodle name="aws-s3"
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          • vulnerability-detector
          • wodle name="osquery"
          • wodle name="docker-listener"
          • wodle name="azure-logs"
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          • Verifying configuration
        • Centralized configuration (agent.conf)
        • Internal configuration
        • Daemons
          • ossec-agentd
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          • Tables available for wazuh-db
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        • Tools
          • agent-auth
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        • Unattended Installation
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      • Elasticsearch tuning
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    • Development
      • Client keys file
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      • Makefile options
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        • AIX
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        • macOS
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    • Containers
      • Docker
        • Docker installation
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        • Upgrade Guide (3.x to 4.0)
        • FAQ
      • Deploying with Kubernetes
        • Kubernetes configuration
        • Upgrade Wazuh installed in Kubernetes
        • Clean Up
    • Deployment
      • Deploying with Puppet
        • Set up Puppet
          • Installing Puppet master
          • Installing Puppet agent
          • PuppetDB installation (Optional)
          • Setting up Puppet certificates
        • Wazuh Puppet module
          • Wazuh agent class
          • Wazuh manager class
      • Deploying with Ansible
        • Installation Guide
          • Install Ansible
          • Install Wazuh Manager
          • Install Elastic Stack Server
          • Install Wazuh Agent
        • Remote Hosts Connection
        • Roles
          • Wazuh Manager
          • Filebeat
          • Elasticsearch
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          • Wazuh Agent
        • Variables references
      • Virtual Machine (OVA)
    • Compliance
      • Using Wazuh for PCI DSS
        • Log analysis
        • Policy monitoring
        • Rootkit detection
        • File integrity monitoring
        • Active response
        • Elastic Stack
      • Using Wazuh for GDPR
        • GDPR II, Principles <gdpr_II>
        • GDPR III, Rights of the data subject <gdpr_III>
        • GDPR IV, Controller and processor <gdpr_IV>
    • Monitoring with Wazuh
      • Using Wazuh to monitor AWS
        • Monitoring AWS instances
        • Monitoring AWS based services
          • Prerequisites
            • Configuring an S3 Bucket
            • Configuring AWS credentials
            • Installing dependencies
            • Considerations for configuration
          • Supported services
            • AWS CloudTrail
            • Amazon VPC
            • AWS Config
            • AWS Key Management Service
            • Amazon Macie
            • AWS Trusted Advisor
            • Amazon GuardDuty
            • Amazon WAF
            • Amazon Inspector
            • AWS CloudWatch Logs
            • Cisco Umbrella
          • Troubleshooting
      • Using Wazuh to monitor Microsoft Azure
        • Monitoring Instances
        • Monitoring Activity
        • Monitoring Services
      • Using Wazuh to monitor Docker
        • Monitoring Docker server
        • Monitoring containers activity
      • Using Wazuh to monitor GCP services
        • Prerequisites
          • Installing dependencies
          • Configuring GCP credentials
          • Configuring Google Cloud Pub/Sub
          • Considerations for configuration
        • Configuration
        • Supported services
    • Migrating from OSSEC
      • Migrating OSSEC server
      • Migrating OSSEC agent
    • Learning Wazuh
      • Prepare your Wazuh Lab Environment
        • Build the Wazuh Lab VPC
        • Launch the EC2 instances
        • Establish access to your EC2 instances
        • Install Wazuh server Components
        • Install the Elastic Stack
        • Configure X-Pack Security
        • Install the Linux Wazuh agents
        • Install the Windows Wazuh agent
      • Detect an SSH brute-force attack
      • Detect an RDP brute force attack
      • Expose hiding processes
      • Detect filesystem changes
      • Change the rules
      • Survive a log flood
      • Detect and react to a Shellshock attack
      • Keep watch for malicious command execution
      • Catch suspicious network traffic
      • Track down vulnerable applications
    • Release notes
      • 4.0.4 Release notes
      • 4.0.3 Release notes
      • 4.0.2 Release notes
      • 4.0.1 Release notes
      • 4.0.0 Release notes
      • 3.13.6 Release notes
      • 3.13.5 Release notes
      • 3.13.4 Release notes
      • 3.13.3 Release notes
      • 3.13.2 Release notes
      • 3.13.1 Release notes
      • 3.13.0 Release notes
      • 3.12.3 Release notes
      • 3.12.2 Release notes
      • 3.12.1 Release notes
      • 3.12.0 Release notes
      • 3.11.4 Release notes
      • 3.11.3 Release notes
      • 3.11.2 Release notes
      • 3.11.1 Release notes
      • 3.11.0 Release notes
      • 3.10.2 Release notes
      • 3.10.1 Release notes
      • 3.10.0 Release notes
      • 3.9.5 Release notes
      • 3.9.4 Release notes
      • 3.9.3 Release notes
      • 3.9.2 Release notes
      • 3.9.1 Release notes
      • 3.9.0 Release notes
      • 3.8.2 Release notes
      • 3.8.1 Release notes
      • 3.8.0 Release notes
      • 3.7.2 Release notes
      • 3.7.1 Release notes
      • 3.7.0 Release notes
      • 3.6.1 Release notes
      • 3.6.0 Release notes
      • 3.5.0 Release notes
      • 3.4.0 Release notes
      • 3.3.1 Release notes
      • 3.3.0 Release notes
      • 3.2.4 Release notes
      • 3.2.3 Release notes
      • 3.2.2 Release notes
      • 3.2.1 Release notes
      • 3.2.0 Release notes
      • 3.1.0 Release notes
      • 3.0.0 Release notes
      • 2.1 Release notes
    Attention This documentation does not apply to the most recent version of Wazuh. Check out the docs for the latest version.
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