Tactycal

Tactycal agent is a tool for collecting details about the machine and a list of installed packages. The data is then submitted to Tactycal API where it's matched with a list of known issues and vulnerabilities.

Installation

Prebuilt binaries

Please visit "Download agent" section in Tactycal for detailed instructions on how to install the agent on your system.

Building from source

• GNU Make
• Golang (1.7+)
• Docker
• Docker Compose

Execute following to get the source:

$ go get github.com/tactycal/agent          # checkout the code
$ cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/tactycal/agent  # move to the directory
$ make                                      # list all supported targets

The most important targets:

$ make test                      # runs unit tests
$ make build                     # builds agent 
$ make up                        # starts agents in all distributions
$ make up/<distribution>         # starts agent for specific distribution

Currently supported distributions are:

• centos
• debian
• rhel
• ubuntu
• openSUSE
• sles
• amzn (Amazon Linux AMI)

Run make or make help for a list of all supported targets.

Configuration

Agent can be configured with a simple key/value configuration file. It will take /etc/tactycal/agent.conf as a default, unless a custom file is provided:

$ tactycal -f your_config.conf

Following configuration options are available:

Option	Required	Description
token	Yes	token used for authentication and authorization
uri	No	full API endpoint, defaults to https://api.tactycal.com/v1 (should be used for development only)
labels	No	list of comma separated values that will be stored together with your host (you can also use environment variables, ex: $SERVER_ROLE)
proxy	No	URL of the proxy server
timeout	No	set timeout for calls to Tactycal's API (check Go's documentation for notation)
state	No	path to file where client's authentication state will be stored

Running the agent

Additional command line arguments can be set when running Tactycal:

Argument	Default	Description
-f string	/etc/tactycal/agent.conf	use a configuration file
-d	false	output debug information
-s string	/var/opt/tactycal/state	path to where Tactycal can write its state
-t duration	3s	client timeout for request in seconds (check Go's documentation for notation)
-v		print version and exit
-l	false	print host information and installed packages to standard output as json string and exit