wazuh-control

The wazuh-control tool manages the Wazuh agent services.

Use this tool to start, stop, restart, reload, or check the status of the Wazuh agent services. It can also display information about the current Wazuh agent installation.

Commands

Command

Description

start

Starts the Wazuh agent services.

stop

Stops the Wazuh agent services.

restart

Restarts the Wazuh agent services.

reload

Reloads the Wazuh agent configuration.

status

Displays the status of the Wazuh agent services.

info [-v -r -t]

Displays information about the Wazuh agent installation. Specify only one option to display the version (-v), revision (-r), or installation type (-t).

enable debug

Run all Wazuh daemons in debug mode.

disable debug

Disables debug mode for all Wazuh agent daemons.

Examples

Show status of Wazuh processes:

# /var/ossec/bin/wazuh-control status

The command output looks similar to this:

wazuh-modulesd is running...
wazuh-logcollector is running...
wazuh-syscheckd is running...
wazuh-agentd is running...
wazuh-execd is running...

Print the value of Wazuh version:

# /var/ossec/bin/wazuh-control info -v

The command output looks similar to this:

v5.0.0