Installation Guide: VectraOps Windows Agent

Installation: VectraOps Windows Agent (Windows)

Follow the steps below to download, copy, extract, and install the VectraOps Windows Agent on a target Windows system.

Prerequisites

• You have access to the VectraOps customer tenant.
• You have local administrator rights on the target Windows system.
• You can copy files to the target Windows system (file share, RDP copy, USB, etc.).

Step-by-step installation

1. Log in to the VectraOps customer tenant.
2. In the left sidebar, go to Systems.
3. Click Download Agents and select Download Windows Agent.
4. Copy the downloaded .zip file to the target Windows system.
5. Extract (unzip) the file on the target system.
6. Run the PowerShell installer script install_agent.ps1 with administrator rights.
7. After the installation completes, the system will appear in the tenant under Systems.

Run the installer (PowerShell)

Open PowerShell as Administrator, browse to the extracted folder, and execute the script.

# Example: go to the extracted agent folder cd "C:\Temp\VectraOps-Windows-Agent\" # Run the installer script .\install_agent.ps1 

Verification

• Return to the VectraOps tenant.
• Go to Systems.
• Confirm the target machine is listed.

Troubleshooting (quick checks)

• System not showing up? Wait a few minutes and refresh the page.
• Script fails to run? Ensure you started PowerShell with Run as administrator.
• Execution policy blocks the script? Run PowerShell as Administrator and try:

# Optional: allow running local scripts for this session Set-ExecutionPolicy -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Scope Process