Installation on Linux

1. installing the sensor package#

1. Retrieve your sensor installation file from IRON.

2. Run the installer while making sure you have root privileges:

• Ubuntu: sudo dpkg -i FalconSensor.deb

• RHEL, CentOS, Amazon Linux: sudo yum install Falconsensor.rpm

• SLES: sudo zypper install Falconsensor.rpm

3. Now set your CID on the sensor, substituting the CID with your IRON CID: sudo /opt/CrowdStrike/falconctl -s --cid=<CID>

4. Now let’s start the sensor service:

• Hosts with SysVinit: service falcon-sensor start

• Hosts with Systemd: systemctl start falcon-sensor

Installation should now be finished.

5. To validate that the Falcon sensor for Linux is running on your device, run this command in terminal: ps -e | grep falcon-sensor

• You’ll see output similar to this:
  905 ? 00:00:08 falcon-sensor