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title: Deploying probes on Linux
description: All modern versions of Ubuntu, CentOS and Amazon 2 are supported. Mileage may vary on other distributions, such as RHEL or Debian, as these are not tested regularly. SELinux is not supported. How to c
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# Deploying probes on Linux

### Probe Install

All modern versions of Ubuntu, CentOS and Amazon 2 are supported. Mileage may vary on other distributions, such as RHEL or Debian, as these are not tested regularly. SELinux is not supported.

#### RPM

```
sudo yum -y https://api.preludesecurity.com/download/install/detect.rpm
sudo detect-register-endpoint -r <ACCOUNT_ID>/<TOKEN> -t tag1,tag2,tag3
```

#### Amazon AM2

```
sudo yum install https://api.preludesecurity.com/download/install/detect.rpm
sudo detect-register-endpoint -r <ACCOUNT_ID>/<TOKEN> -t tag1,tag2,tag3
```

#### Ubuntu

```
curl -sL https://api.preludesecurity.com/download/install/detect.deb -o detect.deb
sudo dpkg -i detect.deb
rm detect.deb
sudo detect-register-endpoint -r <ACCOUNT_ID>/<TOKEN> -t tag1,tag2,tag3
```

### Probe service control

How to check the status and control the probe service.

**Check if Prelude Probe service is running**

```
 sudo systemctl status detect.service
```

**Stop Prelude Probe service**

```
 sudo systemctl stop detect.service
```

**Start Prelude Probe service**

```
 sudo systemctl start detect.service
```

**Restart Prelude Probe service**

```
 sudo systemctl restart detect.service
```

**Logging**

```
/var/log/prelude/probe.log
```

### Ansible Deployment

The following is a sample Ansible playbook that can be used to download, install and register Prelude Detect on Linux using the .deb package. Replace \\ / with your registration string, -t tags are optional and can be removed if not setting tags at time of install.

```
---
- name: Install detect package and register endpoint
 hosts: your_target_hosts
 become: yes

 tasks:
 - name: Download detect.deb package
 get_url:
 url: "https://api.preludesecurity.com/download/install/detect.deb"
 dest: "/tmp/detect.deb"

 - name: Install detect.deb package
 apt:
 deb: "/tmp/detect.deb"
 become: yes

 - name: Remove downloaded detect.deb package
 file:
 path: "/tmp/detect.deb"
 state: absent

 - name: Register endpoint
 command: "sudo detect-register-endpoint -r <ACCOUNT_ID>/<TOKEN> -t tag1,tag2,tag3"
```

 

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