Installing guest images from a USB device using the CLI

Use the commands in this topic to install guest images from a USB device onto the appliance. By default, you can access only the contents locally in the fireeye directory for the first partition from a specified URL.

Prerequisites

Admin access
Enable auto-mounting on the USB device to the attached appliance. For details about how to enable auto-mounting, see Enabling or disabling auto-mounting on a USB device using the CLI .
Configure HTTP access. For details, see Configuring HTTP access to install software updates using the CLI.
Complete the steps in the following order to set up the files correctly to install guest images from a USB device:
1. Download the guest images tar file from the Trellix network.
2. Extract the contents on the USB device.
3. Remove the version numbers. Copy the following file names:
  - server-manifest.VERSION to server-manifest
  - server-manifest.VERSION.md5 to server-manifest.md5
  - server-manifest.VERSION.v2 to server-manifest.v2
  - server-manifest.VERSION.v2.md5 to server-manifest.v2.md5

To download guest images from a USB device:

Download guest images using the specified URL as the location to install the guest images:
```
hostname (config) # guest-images download url <URL>
```
where URL is the location that you specified as the top-level directory for the installation.
Wait for the appliance to fully download the guest images before beginning any installations.

Verify the download progress:

hostname (config) # show guest-images download

After the download is complete, install the guest images:
```
hostname (config) # guest-images install
```
Verify that guest images are properly installed:
```
hostname (config) # show guest-images
```