Objective: this installation guide helps you to install the Skopos Agent on Windows devices (workstations and servers). This is especially useful when you cannot pass on the email address of a user to the agent. The agent can also be installed unattended.
Requirements for the client:
- API account and password from Lupasafe (you can generate an API account using the portal here https://portal.lupasafe.com/Account/clients)
- Required operating system is Windows 8/2002 or higher
- The agent requires to be installed with administrator rights
- The script requires access via SSL, port 443
- The agent works with .Net framework 4 and above, the installer uses PowerShell 5 or above
What does the installer do?
- A windows service is added
- The service will run twice a day
- A private/public key pair will be generated to encrypt a random password
- This password is used to zip the stack data and encrypt it
- Twice daily this data will be shared via the Lupasafe api
- Connection is made to https://backend.lupasafe.com/api/
- The private/public key pair will be renewed every week (per server)
- Log information will be written to the event log
Steps to install:
Get the file
Download the installer from https://lupasafe.com/client_software/latest/Skopos%20Agent.exe
Start the installer
Follow the installer
- Enter or pass on as a parameter your API username*
- Enter or pass on as a parameter your API password*
*) Generated here https://portal.lupasafe.com/Account/clients
Unattended install
To start the unattended installation you can start the installer using the following command line parameters and fill in the API username and password:
"Skopos Agent.exe" /exenoui /qn USER_NAME="username_from_portal" USER_PASSWORD="password_from_portal"