Guardhouse Agent

⚡ The Guardhouse Agent is a background daemon for servers and other network-enabled devices that enables remote management on Windows, Linux and Mac OS.

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Introduction

The agent communicates with the Guardhouse Service, where it gets its instructions.

The agent is capable of system monitoring as well as performing a variety automatic, scheduled and network-coordinated tasks.

Requirements

🚨 We are currently in an early testing phase, during which support and compatibility is severely limited.

The current version of the agent is tested on and designed to support Ubuntu 17.04 only.

(The agent should work on a variety of platforms and distributions, even on Windows and Mac. However, correct functionality is not guaranteed on other platforms at this time. Linux is recommended regardless.)

Dependencies

Node.js and npm are required to install and run the agent: https://nodejs.org/en/download/package-manager/

Package installation

To get started, install guardhouse-agent as a global package using npm:

npm install --global guardhouse-agent

You may need to execute this command as superuser / administrator for it to work correctly.

The agent is normally installed to one the following directories, depending on npm:

## For Unix (Linux & Mac)
/usr/lib/node_modules/guardhouse-agent
/usr/local/lib/node_modules/guardhouse-agent

## For Windows
~/AppData/Roaming/npm/node_modules/guardhouse-agent

You can review the global installation directory for npm using npm list -g.

The installation will also register the guardhouse-agent binary on your system (/usr/bin/guardhouse-agent).

License

The Guardhouse Agent is available under the GNU GPL v3 License. Please refer to the information included in LICENSE.md for additional information.