Installing

  1. verify that you have the prerequisites installed some additional modules that may be useful are listed in the advanced installation section.
  2. unbundle the tarball
  3. run ./Configure
    if upgrading from 3.2 or later, you can run ./Configure --upgrade
  4. answer any questions it asks
  5. run make
  6. as root, run make install
  7. create 2 files in the data directory:
    1. config
    2. users
    in addition to the documentation, the tarball contains examples in the 'examples' directory.
  8. configure your web server
  9. start the argus server by running argusd
    or install the rc.argusd script as appropriate for your system.
  10. check the argus log file ($datadir/log) and/or your syslog logs to verify that argus is operating correctly.
  11. load the argus cgi interface in your web browser, and verify that everything is configured correctly.
  12. perform any optional advanced configuration described in the advanced installation section.
  13. you are finished, sing a happy song, or, optionally, send in a bug report or survey report