Installation

Requirements

Watchghost needs Python>=3.6 in order to work.

From source

To install Watchghost, you need to specify the extras required for watchers and loggers you want to use.

# example: to install required dependencies
# for SSH watcher and InfluxDB logger
pip install watchghost[influx,ssh]
watchghost

The list of extras available is:

• watchers

  • ftp - for FTP watcher
  • ssh - for SSH watcher
  • whois - for whois.Expire watcher

• loggers

  • influx - for InfluxDB logger

• others

  • all - to install all dependencies
  • doc - to generate documentation with Sphinx
  • test - to execute tests with pytest and selenium

Once Watchghost is installed and launched, you can access its web interface on port 8888. It also installs some configuration in ~/.config/watchghost if none is found.

For your distribution

ArchLinux

The latest released package is available on AUR, as well as a package from the master branch.