We have a need to simulate the Tanium Client in order to test content we are developing. The simplest solution, for us, was to spin up the client within Docker containers. This repository contains that work which includes a few control scripts to make things really easy.
Luckily for us, ubuntu is well supported within docker and that just so happens to be what our trolleys run to keep track of their status.
There is only one requirement before you can jump into the "Getting Started" section below. Copy your tanium.pub key into the root directory of this project. The build script will validate the file exists before continuing. (For obvious reasons we do not want to share our pub key.)
- This will compile an image which includes the TaniumClient and a simple boot script.
./build.sh
- Start up 5 containers then go checkout your Tanium Console under System Status... you should see your new containers checking in.
./start.sh -s 192.168.1.2
The ip address here is the address of our Tanium Server where the client will start talking into. If you'd like to have more or less containers, add
-c #where # is the number of containers to spin up.
- (Optional) Connect to a bash prompt onto one of your containers:
docker exec -i -t d5f491f505ca /bin/bash
The
d5f491f505cais the container id as displayed by the./start.shcommand or identified viadocker ps -a.
- This will stop and delete all containers seen within
docker ps -a.
./stop.sh
- If you'd like to cleanup your build environment and remove any docker images built from step 1, use the command above.
./clean.sh