Patrowl is an open-source security intelligence platform that enables you to assess, monitor, and analyze your organization's security posture. In this tutorial, we will go through the steps to install Patrowl on NetBSD.
Before installing Patrowl, you need the following requirements:
Patrowl requires several system dependencies to be installed. To install these dependencies, run the following commands:
sudo pkgin update
sudo pkgin install python37 py37-pip py37-pyqt5 py37-pyqt5-qtwebengine py37-setuptools py37-ldap py37-simplejson py37-pycrypto py37-requests py37-cryptography libxml2 libxslt libxslt-processor libffi-devel libgcc openssl
To install Patrowl, you should first clone the PatrowlManager repository from Github.
git clone https://github.com/Patrowl/PatrowlManager.git
Then, navigate into the cloned directory and run the following command to install Patrowl:
cd PatrowlManager
sudo python3 setup.py install
After installing Patrowl, you need to configure it by editing the configuration file patrowl.cfg.
sudo nano /etc/patrowl.cfg
In the configuration file, you need to configure the following settings according to your requirements.
SECRET_KEY: This is the secret key used by Flask to secure your application. You should set a long and complex secret key.SQLALCHEMY_DATABASE_URI: This is the URL to your database. You should replace <db_name> with your database name, <db_user> with your database username, and <db_password> with your database password.LDAP_SERVER: This is the URL to your LDAP server. You should replace <ldap_server> with your LDAP server URL.LDAP_BIND_USERNAME: This is the username used to authenticate with your LDAP server. You should replace <ldap_username> with your LDAP username.LDAP_BIND_PASSWORD: This is the password used to authenticate with your LDAP server. You should replace <ldap_password> with your LDAP password.After configuring Patrowl, you need to start the Patrowl server.
sudo python3 manage.py run
You can now access Patrowl by navigating to http://localhost:5000 in your web browser.
In this tutorial, we have gone through the steps to install and configure Patrowl on NetBSD. Patrowl is an excellent security intelligence platform that enables you to monitor and analyze your organization's security posture, and we hope this tutorial helps you get started with it.
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