Installing WinCollect 10 using the GUI Quick installation

You can easily get WinCollect 10 up and running and sending events to IBM® QRadar® by selecting Quick during the installation and specifying the QRadar appliance you want to send your events to.

Procedure

  1. Download the latest version of the WinCollect 10 agent.
  2. Launch a command prompt with administrative privileges.
  3. Run the following command and replace WinCollect-10.X.X-X.x64.msi with the file from step 1.
    msiexec.exe /i WinCollect-10.X.X-X.x64.msi
  4. In the Welcome to the IBM 64-bit Setup Wizard window, click Next.
  5. Accept the EULA and click Next.
  6. In the Account Selection window, select to run the service as the default account or a different account. When using a different account, enter the account domain and name. On a regular system, the default account is the WinCollect virtual account. On domain controllers, it is the LocalSystem.
  7. If the default account option was selected on a regular system, in the Virtual Account window, select if you want to add the virtual account to the Administrators group, then click Next. If the installation is on a Domain Controller, this page is skipped .
  8. In the Installer Options window, select Quick. The Quick installation option configures the agent to collect Security, System, and Application events.
  9. In the Destination window, type in the hostname of the QRadar appliance you want to send your WinCollect events to, and click Install.
  10. After the installation is complete, the Completing the IBM WinCollect Setup Wizard window appears. Click Finish to close the installer.