Product Documentation

Initial setup

How to configure a new Cmd environment

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Global security settings

A glossary of the 'Security' settings menu

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Global integration permissions

How to globally enable or disable integrations on your Cmd platform

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IPs and domains to allowlist

Include these IP addresses or domain names on your allowlist

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How to automatically scrub sensitive data

Use RE2 regular expressions to define custom scrubbers

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How to modify your email settings

Select what information Cmd alerts you about via email

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Timed session termination

The Timed Session Termination feature allows you to specify a maximum session duration, and a maximum inactive session duration

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How to install an agent via Apt or Yum

Learn to download and install the Cmd Audit or Cmd Control agent using standard package managers

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Deployment guide — Cmd Audit on EKS, AKS, GKE, or OpenShift (DaemonSet)

How to deploy the Cmd Audit agent to your cloud as a DaemonSet

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Deployment guide — Container Optimized Linux Distributions

How to deploy the Cmd Audit agent on Red Hat CoreOS, Fedora CoreOS, or Flatcar OS

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Single-server deployment guide (Bash script)

Quickly install either Cmd agent on a single server

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Deployment guide — Cmd Audit / Cmd Free agent

Deploy the Cmd Audit agent to a fleet of servers

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Deployment guide — Cmd Control agent

How to automate deployment to a fleet of servers

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Container deployment guide — Cmd Control

Use Cmd's launcher method to hook containerized applications

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Terraform deployment example

How to deploy Cmd agents with Terraform

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Ansible install playbook example

An example of how to deploy the Cmd agent with Ansible

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Supervisord deployment guide

Install the Cmd Control agent in containers running Supervisord

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Chef install recipe example

An example Chef recipe that deploys Cmd

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Puppet install manifest example

An example of how to install Cmd using Puppet

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AWS SSM deployment guide

Enable the Cmd agent on servers managed by AWS Systems Manager (SSM)

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AWS EC2 deployment guide

Deploy the Cmd agent on AWS EC2 instances via a user data script

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Types of User Accounts

A glossary of Cmd accounts & their permissions

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Teammates settings

Add new Cmd users, modify user accounts, and group users into 'roles'

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How to set up your user account

A configuration guide for new Cmd users

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2-factor authentication setup guide

How to set up 2FA methods for your Cmd account

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How to view your account settings and activity

Find your account information, web app activity, and server login history.

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How to update your timezone

Select a timezone to use throughout the web app

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How to change your password

Update the password for your Cmd account

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How to log in or out

A guide to logging in with any supported method

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Reports overview

An introduction to Cmd's built-in reporting tool

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Tutorial: how to make new reports

A step-by-step guide to adding widgets, charts, and filters

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How to share reports

Make a report public or download it as a PDF to share it with your team

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How to edit and delete reports

Modify or remove existing Cmd reports

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How to copy reports

Add a report to another project, create a private or modified version of a public report

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Projects overview

Conceptual background and further reading related to Cmd projects

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Project settings glossary

A detailed overview of the 'Project settings' menu, including teammates, servers, web app, agent, and integration settings.

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Add a third-party integration to a project

A guide to connecting with third-party apps

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How to review project history

A guide to tracking user-initiated changes to Cmd projects

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How to add users to Cmd projects

Invite your team to sign up, and define their permissions

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How to add new projects

A step-by-step guide to creating new Cmd projects

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How to switch between projects

Select a project to view its servers, triggers, reports, and data

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How to rename & delete projects

Instructions for changing a project's name or removing it

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Data export schema

Learn how Cmd structures data for storage and export

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How to export Cmd data to S3

Send Cmd session and event data to AWS for long-term storage

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How to export Cmd data to GCP

A guide to sending Cmd data to a Google Cloud Platform bucket

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How to access exported data using AWS Redshift

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Use AWS Athena to analyze Cmd data

Learn how to use Athena to query Cmd data that's stored long-term in S3

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How to download and examine objects with jq

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Legacy data export schema

Learn about the legacy format for JSON data exported from Cmd

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Access exported Cmd data using AWS Redshift Spectrum

How to query your Cmd data within an S3 bucket

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Access exported Cmd data using AWS S3 Select

How to analyze a single S3 object exported from Cmd

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PagerDuty integration guide

How to send alerts from a Cmd project directly to PagerDuty

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Third-party integrations overview

Learn about integrating 3rd-party apps with Cmd

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Glossary of third-party integrations

Learn which 3rd-party integrations are available, and how to use them

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Jira Integration — Setup Guide

How to use Cmd to create Jira tickets

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Duo Integration — Setup Guide

How to implement Duo 2FA on Cmd-enabled servers

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Okta SCIM & SSO — Setup Guide

Use Okta to provision Cmd users via SCIM, and for SSO via SAML

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Azure AD SSO via SAML — Setup Guide

How to configure Cmd to use Azure AD for SSO via SAML

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Azure SCIM — Setup guide

How to set up SCIM via Microsoft Azure

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Slack Integration — Setup Guide

How to set up a native Slack integration

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Elastic webhook — setup guide

Send data to the Elastic stack with a webhook

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Opsgenie Webhook — Setup Guide

Send Cmd event data to Opsgenie with a webhook

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Splunk webhook — setup guide

Send Cmd event data to Splunk with a webhook

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Custom Webhooks — Setup Overview

Learn about Cmd's custom webhook integrations with 3rd-party apps

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xMatters Webhook — Setup Guide

How to send Cmd alerts and data to xMatters

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Slack Webhook — Setup Guide

How to implement a custom webhook to send Cmd data to Slack

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Sumo Logic Webhook — Setup Guide

Create a webhook integration to send Cmd data to Sumo Logic

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Microsoft Teams webhook — Setup Guide

How to integrate Cmd with MS Teams

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CQL character matching — syntax guide

Improve your triggers by learning how to match characters in Cmd CQL

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Triggers overview

Learn about Cmd's flexible tools for defining rules and alert conditions on your hosts

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Trigger best practices and examples

Unlock the flexibility and power of Cmd triggers by following these design principles

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How to add new triggers

Step-by-step instructions for setting up triggers

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How to copy a trigger between projects

Copy an existing trigger from one project to another

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How to troubleshoot triggers

A guide to resolving common problems with triggers

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Trigger actions overview

Learn about the actions Cmd can take when trigger conditions are met

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2FA on session connect — setup guide

Follow this guide to enforce two-factor authentication when users sign onto your hosts

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Simple 2FA prompts — setup guide

How to streamline authentication and reduce 2FA-fatigue on Cmd Control

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How to limit when triggers fire for authenticated users

Reduce alert fatigue by following these trigger design principles

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How to rename and delete trigger groups

A step-by-step guide to managing trigger groups

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How to add new trigger groups

A step-by-step guide to creating trigger groups

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Agent self-protection triggers

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The Cmd Web App Terminal

Learn about the terminal that displays your data in the Cmd web app

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The 'Home' page

An overview of the homepage dashboard, and how to customize it

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The 'Servers' page

View and manage Cmd-enabled servers; update, uninstall, or disable an agent; and edit server groups

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The 'Alerts' page

An overview of the 'Alerts' page, where you can view and resolve alerts

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The 'Sessions' page

An overview of 'sessions', where you can view Cmd data and live sessions

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Cmd Audit agent troubleshooting guide

Learn to resolve the most common issues with setting up the Cmd Audit / Cmd Free agent to capture data

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Monitor environment variables

How to capture local env vars at session inception with the Cmd Audit or Cmd Control agent

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The agent status API

How to check an agent’s state via a UDS diagnostic endpoint

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The agent download endpoint

Learn how to download specific versions of either agent from a URL maintained by Cmd

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How to disable or uninstall the Cmd agent

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How to manage server groups

Instructions for how to add and delete server groups, and for how to add servers to groups

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Cmd Control agent troubleshooting guide

How to resolve issues with deploying the Cmd Control agent on servers to log data and enforce policies

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Cmd Audit Open Source Software BSD Copyright Attributions

Licensing and copyright information for the open source packages used in the Cmd Audit agent

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Cmd Control Open Source Software BSD Copyright Attributions

Licensing and copyright information for the open source packages used in the Cmd Control agent

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Enable or disable access for Cmd support

Control whether Cmd support can log in to your environment

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Agent diagnostic reports — Overview

Information about agent diagnostic and error reports

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Cmd CQL

Information about the operators and properties that you can use to build queries throughout the Cmd web app

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Glossary of Cmd-generated server terminal messages

Explanations of the messages which Cmd can show to users logged in to Cmd-enabled servers

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Cmd webhook CQL properties glossary

A glossary of the CQL properties you can include with webhook-based alerts

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Example POST body

An example of the data Cmd sends to third-party webhook integrations

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'man' / 'mandb' crashes on Ubuntu

Easily fix this known issue

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Upstart — known issue with SSH daemon

Avoid an issue that can stop triggers from firing as expected on CentOS 6 and Amazon Linux 1

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Why do GCP VM SSH sessions appear as two sessions in Cmd?

An explanation of how GCP VMs show up in the Cmd web app

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