Hosts (Virtual Machines)
Overview
This topic describes how to install Upwind Sensor on a Linux host (VM), such as an Amazon EC2 instance, Google Cloud compute instance or Microsoft Azure VM, Oracle Compute instance or a on-premise VM.
This topic assumes the following criteria are met:
- You have already connected the cloud account where the Host is hosted to Upwind. If you haven't, please follow the Connect a Cloud Account page.
Requirements
The Upwind Sensor can be installed on any Linux machine with a kernel version of 4.14 or above.
The Upwind Host installation includes two components: the Sensor (the always-on agent) and the Scanner (periodic host scanning). The Sensor is lightweight, needing only 0.5 CPU cores and 512 MiB of memory. The Scanner is more resource-intensive, requiring 2 CPU cores and 8 GiB of memory, and is only enabled on hosts with 8 GiB or more; on hosts below that threshold the Sensor runs normally and the Scanner is disabled by default.
Here's a table summarizing the requirements:
| Requirement | Description |
|---|---|
| Architecture | amd64 or arm64 |
| Operating System | Linux |
| Kernel Version | 4.14 or above |
| CPU (Sensor) | 0.5 cores or more |
| Memory (Sensor) | 512 MiB or more |
| CPU (Scanner) | 2 cores or more |
| Memory (Scanner) | 8 GiB or more |
Please make sure your Host meets the above requirements before proceeding with the installation.
Recommended Prerequisites
| Recommendation | Description |
|---|---|
| Kernel Version | 5.4 or above |
Installation
The installation choices available for deploying the Upwind Sensor are as follows:
- Install Script (Recommended)
- Package Installation
- Cloud Deployment Tools