The pip package manager for Python is used to install, upgrade and remove Alert Logic CLI.
Alert Logic CLI only works on Python 3.7 or higher. Please follow this instructions on how to install Python on your system: https://www.python.org/downloads/
Use pip3 to install the Alert Logic CLI
$ pip3 install alcli --upgrade --user
Make sure to use --user to to install the program to a subdirectory of your user directory to avoid modifying libraries used by your operating system.
For windows users there is self-contained Alert Logic CLI distribution is available, please download latest version from here:
Alternatively, please view history of the releases.
We regularly introduce support for new Alert Logic services. We recommend that you check installed packages version and upgrade to the latest version regularly.
$ pip3 install --upgrade --force-reinstall alcli
Before you can run a CLI command, you must configure the Alert Logic's CLI with your credentials.
By default, alcli uses ~/.alertlogic/config configuration file in a user's home directory. File can contain multiple profiles. Here's an example of a configuration file that has credentials for an integration and production deployments:
[default]
access_key_id=1111111111111111
secret_key=eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
global_endpoint=integration
[production]
access_key_id=2222222222222222
secret_key=dddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddd
global_endpoint=production
The location of the configuration file can be also specified by setting ALERTLOGIC_CONFIG environment variable to contain file's location.
--query option requires JMESPath language expression. See
http://jmespath.org/tutorial.html for language tutorial.