Installation on Ubuntu 18 (Bionic)#

Quick install#

After obtaining the License Key, please use the our interactive installation script to quickly install IDSTower:

$ curl -O https://download.idstower.com/install_script/1.0.0/install-IDSTower.sh
$ echo "6eef7644400dbc1ebfea553c912ed9010c086dd4ca551e522191df406ad28181 install-IDSTower.sh" \
 | sha256sum -c -
$ bash install-IDSTower.sh -i

Manual install#

Please follow the following steps to install IDSTower on Ubuntu 18:

  1. Install MySQL (MariaDb 10.3.x)

    Ubuntu 18 is shipped with an older version of MariaDB, to install the supported version (10.3.x), please use the following guide: Upgrade to MariaDB Community Server 10.3 on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

  2. Start MariaDB service

$ sudo systemctl enable mariadb.service
$ sudo systemctl start mariadb.service
$ sudo systemctl status mariadb.service

  1. (Recommended) Run mysql_secure_installation Script

$ sudo /usr/bin/mysql_secure_installation

  1. Add IDSTower & Ansible repositories

$ sudo wget -qO - https://download.idstower.com/repos/apt/idstower.key | sudo apt-key add -
$ echo "deb [arch=amd64] https://download.idstower.com/repos/apt stable main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/idstower.list
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt install software-properties-common -y
$ sudo apt-add-repository --yes --update ppa:ansible/ansible

  1. Install IDSTower

$ sudo apt install idstower -y

  1. Edit the appsettings.json configuration file (located in: /opt/idstower/) and set the following settings

    • set the LicenseKey key value with the key you obtained from the license page.

    • set the URL key value with the url you want IDSTower to listen to, example: http://idstower.mydomain.local, this url must be reachable from your Suricata hosts, note that you can use ip addresses as well.

    • set the MySQL Database settings like host, port, database name, username & password via the Database key.

  2. run IDSTower with –init-database option to initialize the database:

$ cd /opt/idstower/
$ sudo ./IDSTower --init-database

Note

If you wish to initialize the database manually, you can find the schema initialization script here: https://download.idstower.com/packages/latest/sql_scripts/

You can easily import the script by running the following command:

$ sudo mysql -u [username] -p [DatabseName] < idstower_schema_script.sql

  1. Add an admin user to IDSTower:

$ sudo ./IDSTower -a [Your Admin Username]

example:

$ sudo ./IDSTower -a admin

  1. Enable & Start IDSTower Service

$ sudo chown -R idstower:idstower /var/log/idstower/*
$ sudo systemctl enable idstower.service
$ sudo systemctl start idstower.service

  1. Verify that IDSTower Service started correctly

$ sudo systemctl status idstower.service

  1. Now you can access IDSTower web interface using the url set in your appsettings.json