How to Install Scrutiny on FreeBSD Latest

Scrutiny is a web-based hard drive health monitoring system that keeps a close eye on the status of your hard drives and provides insights about their overall health. In this tutorial, we'll go over the steps to install Scrutiny on FreeBSD Latest.

Prerequisites

To install Scrutiny on FreeBSD Latest, you'll need to have the following:

Step 1: Installing Dependencies

Before we install Scrutiny, we need to install a few dependencies. These dependencies will make sure that Scrutiny runs smoothly on our FreeBSD Latest system.

First, update the packages list for your FreeBSD system by running this command:

pkg update

Next, install the following dependencies:

pkg install python3 py38-pip python3-dev py38-psycopg2 py38-pyasn1 py38-pynacl py38-cffi

Step 2: Install Scrutiny

Now that we have installed the dependencies let's move on to installing Scrutiny on our FreeBSD Latest system. Follow the steps below:

  1. Open the terminal and navigate to the directory where you want to install Scrutiny.

  2. Clone the Scrutiny repository by running the following command:

git clone https://github.com/AnalogJ/scrutiny.git
  1. Navigate to the Scrutiny directory by running the following command:
cd scrutiny
  1. Install Scrutiny by using pip. Run the following command to install the required packages:
pip3 install -r requirements.txt
  1. Then, type the following command to install Scrutiny:
sudo python3 setup.py install

Step 3: Running Scrutiny

To run Scrutiny, run the following command:

scrutiny

It will start Scrutiny on the default port 8000. You can now open your web browser and navigate to the following URL:

http://localhost:8000/

You will see the Scrutiny dashboard.

Conclusion

In this tutorial, we showed you how to install Scrutiny on FreeBSD Latest. Scrutiny is a useful tool for monitoring the health of your hard drives, and it's easy to install and use. Make sure to keep a close eye on your hard drives' health to prevent data loss.

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