How to Install Patrowl on macOS

In this tutorial, we will go through the steps to install Patrowl on macOS. Patrowl is an open-source threat intelligence platform that helps to centralize, classify and correlate threat feeds.

Prerequisites

Before proceeding, you should have the following items:

• A macOS system with at least 4GB of RAM
• Python 3.8 or later
• Git

Installation Steps

1. Open your Terminal application on your macOS system.

2. Install the required dependencies for Patrowl by running the following command:

   $ brew install libxml2 libxslt 
   

3. Clone the Patrowl repository from GitHub by running the following command:

   $ git clone https://github.com/Patrowl/PatrowlManager.git
   

4. Navigate to the cloned directory by running the following command:

   $ cd PatrowlManager
   

5. Create a virtual environment for Patrowl by running the following command:

   $ python3 -m venv venv
   

6. Activate the virtual environment by running the following command:

   $ source venv/bin/activate
   

7. Upgrade pip by running the following command:

   $ pip install --upgrade pip
   

8. Install the required Python packages by running the following command:

   $ pip install -r requirements.txt
   

9. Create a configuration file for Patrowl by copying the example configuration file:

   $ cp config.example.py config.py
   

10. Open the config.py file and update the required fields, such as the database settings and API keys.

11. Initialize the database by running the following command:

    $ python3 manage.py initdb
    

12. Start the Patrowl server by running the following command:

    $ python3 manage.py runserver
    

13. The Patrowl server should now be running. You can access it by opening your web browser and navigating to http://127.0.0.1:5000.

Conclusion

In this tutorial, we have gone through the steps to install Patrowl on macOS. Now, you can start using Patrowl to centralize, classify, and correlate threat feeds.