How to Install Cabot on OpenBSD

Cabot is an open-source, self-hosted monitoring and alerting platform that allows you to monitor your infrastructure and send alerts when something goes wrong. In this tutorial, we will be walking you through the process of installing Cabot on OpenBSD.

Prerequisites

Before you start, make sure you have the following prerequisites:

  • OpenBSD server with root access.
  • Python 2.7 or higher installed on the server.
  • pip package manager installed on the server.

Step 1: Install Dependencies

To install Cabot on OpenBSD, you need to install the following dependencies:

$ doas pkg_add py2-pip py2-psycopg2 git redis

Step 2: Clone the Cabot Repository

Once the installation of dependencies is done, you can go ahead and clone the Cabot repository.

$ git clone https://github.com/arachnys/cabot.git

Step 3: Install Cabot

After cloning the Cabot repository, navigate to the directory where you cloned it and use pip to install Cabot.

$ cd cabot
$ doas pip install -r requirements.txt

Step 4: Configure Cabot

Next, you need to configure Cabot to work with your specific environment. Create a copy of the configuration file, and then edit it according to your needs.

$ cp conf/development.env conf/production.env
$ nano conf/production.env

You will need to specify the following configurations, at a minimum:

DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE=cabot.settings.production
CABOT_FROM_EMAIL=<your-email>
CABOT_ADMIN_EMAIL=<your-admin-email>
DATABASE_URL=postgres://cabot:<db-password>@localhost/postgres
BROKER_URL=redis://localhost:6379/0

Step 5: Initialize the Database

Before you can start using Cabot, you need to initialize the database schema.

$ python manage.py syncdb --noinput

Step 6: Create a Superuser

After initializing the database, you need to create a superuser account that will be used to manage the Cabot application.

$ python manage.py createsuperuser

Step 7: Start Cabot

Finally, you can start the Cabot application by running the following command:

$ python manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:9000

Cabot will now start running on port 9000. You can navigate to http://<server-ip>:9000 to access the Cabot web UI.

Congratulations! You have successfully installed and configured Cabot on your OpenBSD server.