Wazuh installation steps

Download the Wazuh installation assistant.

 curl -sO https://packages.wazuh.com/4.11/wazuh-install.sh

Run the Wazuh installation assistant script.

./wazuh-install.sh -a

The installation script will take care of the installation of all Wazuh central components.

Wazuh indexer The Wazuh indexer is a highly scalable, full-text search and analytics engine. This central component indexes and stores alerts generated by the Wazuh server.

Wazuh server The Wazuh server analyzes data received from the agents and processes it using threat intelligence. A single server can analyze data from thousands of agents, and scale when set up as a cluster. It is also used to manage the agents, configuring them remotely when necessary.

Wazuh dashboard The Wazuh dashboard is the web user interface for data visualization, analysis, and management. It includes dashboards for regulatory compliance, vulnerabilities, file integrity, configuration assessment, cloud infrastructure events, among others.