How To Install or Upgrade Open-AudIT (Linux)
- Mark Unwin
Open-AudIT can be downloaded, installed, configured and discovering devices in under 10 minutes.
In short, run the installer and it will take care of everything for you.
Downloading & Installing
Go to open-audit.org or www.firstwave.com and download the latest version.
Run “sudo ./OAE-Linux-x86_64-release_5.2.2.run” and the installer will take care of the dependencies for you.
Log on to Open-AudIT and you should see a splash screen informing you that you do not have a license – but Opmantek will give you a 20 device license for free. Just fill out the form and your 20 device license will be activated.
All you need to do now is add some credentials, add a discovery and run it. Done!
Once you have installed Open-AudIT, hop over to our Getting Started page for more helpful information.
Upgrading
Upgrading is essentially the same as installing.
Just run the installer as per above and when you log on to the web interface, you will be directed to the database schema upgrade screen.
Run this and your schema will be upgraded and you can then continue to use Open-AudIT as normal.
Don't forget we have release notes available for every version so you'll know exactly what has changed.
Database Creation
Open-AudIT requires a database to store its information in. If you ever need to manually create this database, the commands to do so are below. You should have already set a root password. If you have not, the default root password set by an Open-AudIT installation is openauditrootuserpassword.
NOTE - Running the installer will take care of this for you.
Create the database.
mysql -u root -p -e "CREATE DATABASE openaudit;"
Create the database user.
mysql -u root -p -e "CREATE USER openaudit@localhost IDENTIFIED BY 'openauditpassword';"
Give the user access tot he database.
mysql -u root -p -e "GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON openaudit.* TO openaudit@localhost IDENTIFIED BY 'openauditpassword'; FLUSH PRIVILEGES;"
Populate the database schema.
mysql -u root -p openaudit -e "/usr/local/open-audit/other/open-audit.sql"
Dependencies
Open-AudIT relies on dependencies to function. These dependencies are based on the distribution and version you are using. They are below.
NOTE - Running the installer will take care of these for you.
Redhat 8
subscription-manager repos --enable codeready-builder-for-rhel-8-x86_64-rpms subscription-manager repos --enable=rhel-8-server-optional-rpms dnf -y install https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-8.noarch.rpm /usr/bin/crb enable dnf -y upgrade dnf -y module install php:8.0 --allowerasing dnf -y install --allowerasing curl httpd ipmitool libnsl logrotate mariadb-server net-snmp net-snmp-utils nmap perl-Crypt-CBC perl-Time-ParseDate php-intl php-ldap php-mysqlnd php-process php-snmp samba-client sshpass wget zip systemctl enable php-fpm systemctl enable httpd systemctl enable mariadb systemctl restart php-fpm systemctl restart httpd systemctl restart mariadb chmod u+s /usr/bin/nmap # NOTE - The user is left to configure the firewall. The installer will do this for you.
Redhat 9
subscription-manager repos --enable codeready-builder-for-rhel-9-x86_64-rpms subscription-manager repos --enable=rhel-9-server-optional-rpms dnf -y install https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-9.noarch.rpm /usr/bin/crb enable dnf -y upgrade dnf -y module install php:8.1 --allowerasing yum install -y curl httpd ipmitool libnsl libsodium logrotate mariadb-server net-snmp net-snmp-utils nmap perl-Crypt-CBC perl-Time-ParseDate php php-cli php-intl php-json php-ldap php-mbstring php-mysqlnd php-process php-snmp php-sodium php-xml samba-client screen sshpass wget zip systemctl enable php-fpm systemctl enable httpd systemctl enable mariadb chmod u+s /usr/bin/nmap # NOTE - The user is left to configure the firewall. The installer will do this for you.
Debian 11 / 12
apt-get update -qq apt-get -yq -o Dpkg::Options::=--force-confdef -o Dpkg::Options::=--force-confold install mariadb-server apache2 apache2-utils libapache2-mod-php openssh-client php php-cli php-curl php-intl php-ldap php-mbstring php-mysql php-snmp php-xml nmap zip wget curl sshpass screen smbclient logrotate ipmitool snmp libcrypt-cbc-perl systemctl restart apache2 systemctl restart mysql chmod u+s /usr/bin/nmap dpkg-statoverride --update --add root root 4755 /usr/bin/nmap
Ubuntu 20.04 / 22.04 / 24.04
apt-get update -qq apt-get mariadb-server apache2 apache2-utils libapache2-mod-php openssh-client php php-cli php-curl php-intl php-ldap php-mbstring php-mysql php-snmp php-xml nmap zip wget curl sshpass screen smbclient logrotate ipmitool snmp libcrypt-cbc-perl systemctl restart apache2 systemctl restart mysql chmod u+s /usr/bin/nmap dpkg-statoverride --update --add root root 4755 /usr/bin/nmap