Netify Agent v5 on Rocky Linux

Rocky Linux is an enterprise-grade Linux distribution with deep roots in the Red Hat ecosystem, making it a robust and reliable choice for development, proof-of-concept (PoC) testing, and targeted production deployments in a wide range of environments. You can quickly install Netify Agent v5 on a server, desktop, or virtual machine to explore its network analytics and monitoring features.

Requirements

More often, Rocky Linux is used on baremetal hardware or inside a virtual machine (VM). In this role, the system will need at least 2 network interfaces:

Network Interface #1: used to access the operating system and Netify
Network Interface #2: used to ingest port mirror traffic from LAN segment 1
Network Interface #N: used to ingest port mirror traffic from LAN segment N (optional)

You will also need to know which version of Rocky Linux you are running in order to add the correct repository. If you're not sure, use the cat /etc/os-release command:

Terminal - Netify

$ cat /etc/os-release
NAME="Rocky Linux"
VERSION="9.3 (Blue Onyx)"
ID="rocky"
ID_LIKE="rhel centos fedora"
VERSION_ID="9.3"
PLATFORM_ID="platform:el9"
PRETTY_NAME="Rocky Linux 9.3 (Blue Onyx)"
ANSI_COLOR="0;32"
LOGO="fedora-logo-icon"
CPE_NAME="cpe:/o:rocky:rocky:9::baseos"
HOME_URL="https://rockylinux.org/"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.rockylinux.org/"
SUPPORT_END="2032-05-31"
ROCKY_SUPPORT_PRODUCT="Rocky-Linux-9"
ROCKY_SUPPORT_PRODUCT_VERSION="9.3"
REDHAT_SUPPORT_PRODUCT="Rocky Linux"
REDHAT_SUPPORT_PRODUCT_VERSION="9.3"

Installation

Netify Agent is distributed through the same packaging workflow as Netify plugins, allowing for a consistent installation experience using standard package manager syntax. Pre-compiled binaries are available for x86_64 architectures via our public mirrors. For ARM, MIPS, and other specialized architectures, please contact us.

Step 1 - Select your installation target:

Step 2 - Add Netify's package signing key and repository:

Terminal - Netify

sudo rpm --import http://download.netify.ai/5/rockylinux/9/stable/RPM-GPG-KEY-netify
sudo curl https://download.netify.ai/5/rockylinux/9/netify.repo -o /etc/yum.repos.d/netify.repo

Step 3 - Install the Netify Agent:

Terminal - Netify

sudo yum update
sudo yum install netifyd

Step 4 - Install plugins:

The Netify Agent provides only minimal functionality in the absence of plugins. To begin processing data, configure one or more feature plugins and/or sink (connector) plugins.

Step 2 - Add Netify's package signing key and repository:

Terminal - Netify

sudo rpm --import http://download.netify.ai/5/rockylinux/8/stable/RPM-GPG-KEY-netify
sudo curl https://download.netify.ai/5/rockylinux/8/netify.repo -o /etc/yum.repos.d/netify.repo

Step 3 - Install the Netify Agent:

Terminal - Netify

sudo yum update
sudo yum install netifyd

Step 4 - Install plugins:

The Netify Agent provides only minimal functionality in the absence of plugins. To begin processing data, configure one or more feature plugins and/or sink (connector) plugins.

Post Installation

After installing the agent, verify the installation and some path information using the -s (status) argument.

Terminal - Netify

$ netifyd -s
Netify Agent/5.0.62-1-HEAD-nnnn-aaaaaaaa (debian; linux-gnu; x86_64; conntrack; netlink; dns-cache; tpv3; tcmalloc; regex)
✗ agent is not running: PID 0
• persistent state path: /etc/netifyd
• volatile state path: /var/run/netifyd
! agent run-time status could not be determined.

The Netify agent is not configured to start post install. It will not be running by default and should expect to see the 'not running' and 'run-time status could not be determined' messages.