Locate the Sensor Device ID Locally

Products

• Carbon Black Cloud Endpoint Standard
• Carbon Black Cloud Enterprise EDR
• Carbon Black Cloud Workload

Issue/Introduction

Steps to locate the unique Device ID for a Carbon Black Cloud sensor

Environment

• Carbon Black Cloud Sensor: All Supported Versions
• Microsoft Windows: All Supported Versions

Resolution

Microsoft Windows

1. Launch an administrative command prompt 
2. Run the following command based on your sensor version:
   • 3.6 and below sensors:

     find "RegistrationId" "C:\Program Files\Confer\cfg.ini"

   • 3.7 - 4.1 sensors:

     find "RegistrationId" "C:\ProgramData\CarbonBlack\DataFiles\cfg.ini"

   • 4.2+ sensors:

     find "RegistrationId" "C:\ProgramData\Broadcom\Endpoint Security Agent\sef\plugins\cbc\DataFiles\cfg.ini"

3. The output will be in the following format:

   RegistrationId=OrgID-DeviceID

Linux

1. Launch terminal
2. Run the command:

   % sudo grep 'RegistrationId' \var\opt\carbonblack\psc\cfg.ini

3. The output will be in the following format:

   RegistrationId=OrgID-DeviceID

macOS

1. Launch terminal
2. Run the command:

   % sudo grep -i 'RegistrationId' /Library/Application\ Support/com.vmware.carbonblack.cloud/Config/cfg.ini

3. The output will be in the following format:

   RegistrationId=OrgID-DeviceID