If you have chosen Standalone Installation of Advisor in the Sentinel installer, follow the procedure given below to update Advisor data manually. The script advisor.sh (for UNIX) and advisor.bat (for Windows) will update the database and then delete the attack and alert downloaded files that were unzipped into the attack and alert directories.
To update Advisor Feed:
Go to url https://advisor.esecurityinc.com/advisordata/.
Enter your username and password.
Go to the latest month under the attack and alert folders and download the zip files.
Place the new alert and attack feed data files (zip files) on your computer.
NOTE: Do not place the zip file in the attack and alert directories.
Unzip the attack feed zip files to:
For Windows:
<location specified during install for Advisor data files>\attack
or
For UNIX:
<location specified during install for Advisor data files>/attack
Unzip the alert feed zip files to:
For Windows:
<location specified during install for Advisor data files>\alert
or
For UNIX:
<location specified during install for Advisor data files>/alert
Go to:
For Windows:
%ESEC_HOME%\bin
For UNIX:
$ESEC_HOME/bin
Run the following command:
For Windows:
advisor.bat
For UNIX:
./advisor.sh
NOTE: advisor.sh and advisor.bat will update the database and then delete the attack and alert files that were unzipped into the attack and alert directories.