Installation

1. Create a new system user Saymon agent, the agent will be executed under the user id of this user.
   
   

2. Download the archive Mac OS X 64 bit and unpack it to the directory /opt.
   
   

3. Edit the agent configuration file  saymon-agent/conf/agent.properties.
   
   

4. Create the folder for storing log files:

   sudo mkdir saymon-agent/log && sudo chown -R saymon:staff saymon-agent

5. Make the agent file executable:

   sudo chmod +x saymon-agent/saymon-agent.sh

6. Launch the agent:

   cd saymon-agent && sudo -u saymon ./saymon-agent.sh

Log files

Centralized logging of the agent through SYSLOG can be activated in the file  saymon-agent/conf/logback.xml.

Agent log-files are recorded to the directory  /opt/saymon-agent/log.