Install & Standalone Licensing - Snare Enterprise agent for Windows

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Last updated: Oct 10, 2023
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The following guide details how to generate and apply a standalone license to a Snare Enterpise agent.

  1. Download and run the installation media for the Snare Enterprise agent.

  2. When the installation wizard opens, select “Next” to continue.

  3. Accept the Enterprise agent EULA.

  4. Close the popup and select “Advanced” and click “Next”.

  5. Complete the “Snare Auditing”, “Service Account” & “Network Destinations” prompts as per your required settings (more details can be found on these options here: Wizard Install - Snare Windows Agent v5 Documentation - Confluence (atlassian.net))

  6. Select “Enable Web Access” and “Yes - Please enter a password”, then enter a password that will be used to gain access to the agents web interface. If required, you can tick the “Local access only?” option to limit access to the web interface whilst logged into the local machine only.

  7. Click “Next” at the “Ready to Install” option.

     

  8. The agent will now be upgraded to the Snare Enterprise agent and be operational with the settings specified during the wizard install, along with the default Snare audit polices.

  9. Access the agents web UI by browsing to “https://127.0.0.1:6161” and login using the username “snare” and your previously set password during the install wizard.

  10. On the left hand navigation menu, select “License”.

  11. Copy the all the KeyID lines to your clipboard.

  12. Login to the licensing and download portal Login (intersectalliance.com) and select “Licenses”->”My Licenses”.

  13. Select “Enter KeyIDs” against the license row you wish to allocate to this system and paste the KeyIDs into the popup.

  14. The license will now change to the “Generating” state, this may take up to a few minutes. Whilst waiting, assign a label to license row by pressing the “Add” option in the label column. Assign a unique ID that identifies the system this license is allocated to.

  15. Once the license has generated it will now show “Download”, download the license.

  16. Log back into the agent web UI and under the “License” page, paste the contents of the license file into the “Add License” textbox. Press “Add” to assign the license.

  17. The agent is now successfully licensed and fully operational.