Tanium Client installation and deinstallation on Linux
How to Install and uninstall Tanium Client on Linux
Connect as root
# ps -ef | grep -i Tani
root 81905 78975 0 23:52 pts/1 00:00:00 grep –color=auto -i Tani
# rpm -qa |grep -i tani
Install Tanium Client
Verify the rpm count
#rpm -qa |wc -l
# rpm -ivh TaniumClient-7.4.9.1046-1.oel7.x86_64.rpm
warning: TaniumClient-7.4.9.1046-1.oel7.x86_64.rpm: Header V4 RSA/SHA256 Signature, key ID 55b42024: NOKEY
Preparing… ################################# [100%]
Updating / installing…
1:TaniumClient-7.4.9.1046-1.oel7 ################################# [100%]
Created symlink from /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/taniumclient.service to /usr/lib/systemd/system/taniumclient.service.
TaniumClient service installed. Complete installation by:
1. Set ServerName with ‘/opt/Tanium/TaniumClient/TaniumClient config set ServerName <name>’
2. Set any desired optional settings (ServerPort, LogVerbosityLevel, etc) by running ‘/opt/Tanium/TaniumClient/TaniumClient config set <key> <value>’
3. Copy tanium-init.dat into /opt/Tanium/TaniumClient
Start the Tanium client service
4. Start the TaniumClient with ‘systemctl start taniumclient.service’
# pwd
/tmp/tanium
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Verify the Tanium client service
# ps -ef | grep -i Tani
root 3436 1 0 Mar03 ? 00:01:05 /opt/Tanium/TaniumClient/TaniumClient -d
root 24050 59618 0 01:26 pts/1 00:00:00 grep –color=auto -i Tani
root 32381 3436 0 Oct14 ? 00:00:00 /opt/Tanium/TaniumClient/TaniumClient -c
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Verify the Tanium rpm
# rpm -qa |grep -i tani
TaniumClient-7.4.9.1046-1.oel7.x86_64
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Stop the Tanium client service
# systemctl stop taniumclient.service
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# ps -ef | grep -i Tani
root 28889 59618 0 01:29 pts/1 00:00:00 grep –color=auto -i Tani
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# rpm -qa |grep -i tani
TaniumClient-7.4.9.1046-1.oel7.x86_64
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Uninstall the Tanium client.service
#rpm -e TaniumClient-7.4.9.1046-1.oel7.x86_64.rpm
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Verify the rpm count
rpm -qa |wc -l
See also