Requirements

Make sure that your environment meets these requirements before you enroll a Wazuh agent:

  1. An installed and running Wazuh manager.

  2. An installed and running Wazuh agent on the endpoint that you want to enroll.

  3. Outbound connectivity from the Wazuh agent to the Wazuh manager services. You can configure the following ports:

    • 1514/TCP for agent communication.

    • 1515/TCP for enrollment through automatic agent request.

    • 55000/TCP for enrollment through the Wazuh manager API.

Supported operating systems

Wazuh 5.0 supports Wazuh agent installation on the following operating systems:

  • Linux:

    • RHEL / CentOS (AMD64): 6 and later

    • RHEL / CentOS (ARM64): 7 and later

    • AlmaLinux: 8 and later

    • Rocky Linux: 8 and later

    • Amazon Linux: 1 and later

    • Debian: 7 and later

    • Fedora: 41 and later

    • openSUSE Leap: 15

    • Oracle Linux: 6 and later

    • SUSE / SLES: 15

    • Ubuntu: 18.04 and later

  • macOS: 14 or later

  • Windows: 7 and later

  • Windows Server: 2008 R2 and later

Note

Wazuh 4.x agents can enroll with and connect to Wazuh 5.0 managers.

Note

You can find instructions for installing and enrolling agents in the Wazuh dashboard. Go to Agents management > Summary, and click Deploy new agent.