Quick Start
Install the agent
Sign in to your dashboard and open the Install Agent page. You’ll see a one-line installer prefilled with your organization’s API key:
curl https://sysward.com/install.sh | API_KEY=YOUR_API_KEY bash
Run it on any Linux server you want to manage, as root or with sudo. The
installer:
- creates
/opt/sysward/binand downloads the agent binary matching your server’s architecture (x86_64,aarch64, …), - writes the agent configuration with your API key, and
- runs the agent once so the server checks in immediately.
Within a few seconds the server shows up on your Agents page. From then on the agent checks in on a schedule (via cron) to report installed packages and pick up any jobs you queue.
Verify it’s working
- The server appears on the Agents page with its hostname, distribution, and pending-update count.
- Agent activity is logged to
/var/log/syslog, tagged withSYSWARD.
Next steps
Managing more than a handful of servers? Push the one-liner through your existing configuration management (Ansible, Chef, Puppet) or a cloud-init user-data script.