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PCAP Sensor via YUM Package

Install on RPM based Linux Distributions via yum​

Prerequisites​

  • libpcap should be installed from the yum repository
  • Admin (or sudo) privileges on the host

1. Configure the package manager​

Configure yum to access Levo's RPM packages using the following command:

sudo tee -a /etc/yum.repos.d/levo.repo << EOF
[levo]
name=Levo.ai
baseurl=https://us-yum.pkg.dev/projects/levoai/yum-levo
enabled=1
repo_gpgcheck=0
gpgcheck=0
EOF

2. Install the pcap Sensor​

Install the pcap Sensor from Levo's RPM repository.

  1. Update the list of available packages:

    sudo yum makecache

  2. Install the package in your repository.

    sudo yum install levo-pcap-sensor-0.1.7

Enter y when prompted.

3. Start the Sensor​

Sensor runs as a Systemd Service

Configure Satellite Address, Organization-Id and Environment​

The Satellite address is configured in /etc/default/levo-pcap-sensor. The default Satellite URL is https://collector.levo.ai.

Edit /etc/default/levo-pcap-sensor, set the LEVO_SATELLITE_URL variable to the desired host:port value, and set the LEVO_ORG_ID to the Organization ID fetched from the Levo Dashboard. Set LEVO_ENV to the desired environment name in which you wish to see you applications on the Levo Dashboard.

...
LEVO_ENV="your-env"
LEVO_SATELLITE_URL="your-satellite-url"
LEVO_ORG_ID="your-org-id"
...

Sensor restart is required for the config changes to take effect.

Start/Stop the Sensor​

To start the sensor

sudo systemctl start levo-pcap-sensor.service

To stop the sensor

sudo systemctl stop levo-pcap-sensor.service

To restart the sensor

sudo systemctl restart levo-pcap-sensor.service