Linux Installation Guide

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Table of Content

Typographic Convention .............................................................................................................. 3

Preface ......................................................................................................................................... 4
Guide Organization ...................................................................................................................... 5
Cyberoam-iView Configuration .......................................................................................... 6
System Requirements .................................................................................................................... 6
Installation Procedure ..................................................................................................................... 7
Access Web Admin Console ........................................................................................................ 10

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Typographic Convention
Material in this manual is presented in text and screen display notation.

Item
Cyberoam
iView Server
User
Part titles

Topic titles

Subtitles

Convention

Example
Machine where Cyberoam-iView is installed
The Super Administrator

Bold and
shaded font
typefaces

Shaded font
typefaces
Bold & Black
typefaces

Navigation link

Normal
typeface

Notes &
Recommendati
ons

Bold typeface
between the
black borders

Report
Introduction
Notation conventions
System > Configuration > User
it means, to open the required page click on System then on
Configuration and finally click User

Note

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Preface
Welcome to Cyberoam-iView Installation Guide.
Cyberoam-iView Open Source Logging and Reporting Solution
Cyberoam-iView is an open source logging and reporting solution that provides organizations with
visibility into their networks across multiple devices for high levels of security, data confidentiality while
meeting the requirements of regulatory compliance.

Enabling centralized reporting from multiple devices across geographical locations, Cyberoam-iView
offers a single view of the entire network activity. This allows organizations not just to view information
across hundreds of users, applications and protocols; it also helps them correlate the information,
giving them a comprehensive view of network activity.

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Guide Organization
This guide describes how to install Cyberoam-iView in your network to collect logs and generate
meaningful reports for added network devices. This guide is organized in following sections.

System Requirements

Installation Procedure

Access Web Admin Console

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Cyberoam-iView
Configuration
System Requirements
The hardware requirement for installing Cyberoam-iView and its repository is dependent on how much
data is required to be retained in the form of archives. Following table outlines the important hardware
components and their recommended configuration.
Component
Processor
RAM
Hard Disk Drive
Operating System
(Tested)

Browser
(Tested)

Recommendation
Core 2 Duo with 4GHz
4GB (Minimum)
SATA or SCSI hard disk with minimum 30GB
disk space

CentOS Enterprise Linux 6.5 - 64 bit

CentOS Enterprise Linux 6.4 - 32 bit

Mozilla Firefox 15.0+

Google Chrome 20.0+

Best view - Mozilla Firefox 15.0+ Resolution

1024 X 768 or more

Note
Cyberoam iView can be installed on other versions of Linux as well.

Recommendations
Desktop Antivirus / Firewall should bypass following applications running on iView server:
Garner, Postgres. Java.
Configure your firewall (if any) to allow UDP traffic on port 514.

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Installation Procedure
Note
Make sure no services are running on port 8000, 8015 and 514. Installation will be cancelled if these ports
are not free.

Cyberoam-iView Installation
1. Download Cyberoam-iView Linux installer
Download iView-Linux-0.126-Setup.bin from http://sourceforge.net/projects/cyberoam-iview/files/iVewBeta/iView-0.126/
2. Start Installation
Login as a Root user and execute following commands:
# chmod 755 <filename downloaded in step 1>

/*Makes the file executable

#. /<.bin filename>

/*Run the file

3. License Agreement
Once you run the binary file, Linux self extracts the binary file and starts installation. It will display the
Cyberoam-iView license.
Enter Y to accept the license agreement to continue the installation process. In case you do not want
to continue with the Installation, enter N to cancel the installation.

Screen License Agreement

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Screen License Agreement

4. Specify installation locations and Configure Login Information
Specify directory path to

install Cyberoam-iView

store archived logs

Note
It is recommended to have minimum 30 GB free space to store Logs else, a warning message will be
displayed.
Performance might get affected if minimum free space is not available
Specify location of

PostgreSQL 8.4 data directory

Java 6 directory

It will display error message if

Compatible version of Postgre is not found

Specified destination path is incorrect

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Screen Configure Storage Location and Login Information

Specify Cyberoam-iView administrative password and email address. These credentials will be used
to access Cyberoam-iView Web admin console.

Note
Administrative password should contain minimum six characters.
This finishes Cyberoam-iView installation and registers Cyberoam-iView as a service.
5. Verify Configuration
You can check status of the registered service (iView web application and syslog server) using
following command at command prompt:
/etc/init.d/iviewd status

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Access Web Admin Console

Browse to http://<IP address of the machine on which Cyberoam-iView is installed i.e. local
machine>:8000 and log on using default username admin and password specified at the time of
installation.

ScreenCyberoam- iView Web Admin Console

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Cyberoam-iView Documentation Copyright

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