7.1. Installation Requirements¶

Tanium HAT contains all necessary dependencies out of the box. No installations or changes of any kind are required as the package is self contained. In summary, you need only download it and run it!

7.2. Execution Requirements¶

Approximately 50% of all Hygiene Assessment plugins use questions sourced from Tanium Initial Content, typically installed in every Tanium Installation out of the box. The other 50% make use of content that is product specific.

For example, the SCCM plugin that assess SCCM Hygiene relies on SCCM questions that are only included with the Tanium SCCM Content Package. Ensure you identify which plugins you want to execute and refer to “Plugin Requirements” below for a full list of Tanium Content Packages required to power each of the plugins that can be executed.

It is HIGHLY recommended to run the toolset on a machine with Internet connectivity. Internet connectivity is required for:

• Getting data from the internet if get_internet_data is set to “true” in the configuration file.
• Checking if there are new versions of Tanium HAT, plugins, and layouts and downloading them automatically.

You have the option of running Tanium HAT in different modes to work around environments with no Internet Access.

Tanium HAT supports being executed in 3 different modes: “Tanium Data Gathering Mode”, “Internet Data Gathering Mode” and “Data Analysis Mode”. If all three modes are enabled, Tanium HAT will extract necessary data from Tanium, from the Internet, and analyze all data into PPTX Format.

You can choose to only gather Tanium data in environment with no Internet access, but data analysis will compelete with failures as it is missing data from the Internet necessary for processing data extracted from Tanium. At some point in time, all three modes must be executed against the same DATA folder to have a complete PPTX Hygiene Assessment Report as final output.

As an example workflow you may consider the following:

Execute Tanium HAT with get_internet_data set to True and analyze_data/get_tanium_data set to False on one machine that has internet connectivity, and then copy the data folder to a machine that has access to the Tanium server and run Tanium HAT again, this time with get_internet_data set to False and analyze_data/get_tanium_data set to True. Because the Internet data was extracted prior to execution, the Analysis run will not fail.

Refer to Execution modes for more information on these modes.

7.3. Plugin Requirements¶

The following table includes all requirements for Tanium HAT Plugins, included out of the box.