Open Remote Terminal

Navigate to

Cortex XDR app



Settings

Broker

VMs

table.

Locate the broker VM you want to connect to, right-click and select

Open Remote Terminal

.

Cortex XDR opens a CLI window where you can perform the following commands:

Logs

Broker VM logs located are located in

/data/logs/ folder

and contain the applet name in file name. For example, folder

/data/logs/[applet name]

, containing

container_ctrl_[applet name].log

Ubuntu Commands

Cortex XDR Broker VM supports all Ubuntu commands. For example,

telnet 10.0.0.10 80 or ifconfig -a

.

Sudo Commands

Cortex XDR requires you use the following values when running commands:

Applet Names

Agent Proxy—
tms_proxy
Syslog Collector—
anubis
WEC—
wec
Network Mapper—
network_mapper
Pathfinder—
odysseus

Services

Upgrade-—
zenith_upgrade
Frontend service—
webui
Sync with Cortex XDR—
cloud_sync
Internal messaging service (RabbitMQ)-—
rabbitmq-server
Uploads metrics to the Cortex XDR—
metrics_uploader
Prometheus node exporter—
node_exporter
Backend service—
backend

Command	Description	Example
applets_restart	Restarts one or more applets.	> sudo applets_restart wec
applets_start	Start one or more applets.	>sudo applets_start wec
applets_status	Check the status of one or more applets.	> sudo applets_status wec
applets_stop	Stop one or more applets.	> sudo applets_stop wec
services_restart	Restarts one or more services. OS services are not supported.	> sudo services_restart cloud_sync
services_start	Start one or more services	> sudo services_start cloud_sync
services_status	Check the status of one or more services.	> sudo services_status cloud_sync
services_stop	Stop one or more services.	> sudo services_restart cloud_sync
set_ui_password.sh	Changes password of the Broker VM Web UI. Run the command, enter the new password followed by Ctrl+D.	> sudo set_ui_password.sh
tcpdump	Linux capture network traffic command. You must use -w flag in order to print output to file.	> sudo tcpdump -i eth0 -w /tmp/packets.pcap
kill	Linux kill command.	> sudo kill [some pid]
route	Modify your IP address routing.	/sbin/route
edit_routes	Update static network routes. Can only run through a direct SSH connection.	sudo edit_routes Broker VMs that were migrated from Pathfinder VM do not currently support this function. Executing this command will trigger an editor (VI), enter the parameters in a new line, save, exit, and restart the machine and broker VM.
hostnamectl	Check and update the machine hostname on a Linux operating system.	sudo hostnamectl set-hostname <new_host_name> Restart machine after running command.