# MacOS Agent

**URL:** <https://community.icinga.com/t/macos-agent/11520>\
**Category:** Service Monitoring\
**Tags:** agent, icinga2\
**Created:** [February 28, 2023, 8:12pm UTC](https://community.icinga.com/t/macos-agent/11520 "2023-02-28T20:12:30Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
**Page:** 1

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**Author:** ![jasoncrowley](https://community.icinga.com/user_avatar/community.icinga.com/jasoncrowley/32/6486_2.png) [@jasoncrowley](https://community.icinga.com/u/jasoncrowley)\
**Post date:** [February 28, 2023, 8:12pm UTC](https://community.icinga.com/t/macos-agent/11520/1 "2023-02-28T20:12:30Z")

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I know this has been brought up [before](https://community.icinga.com/t/icinga2-agent-for-macos-or-alternatives/11123), but I want to revisit this topic and see if there is interest among Icinga developers and users for a macOS agent. There are blog articles and even a [tutorial](https://icinga.com/docs/icinga-2/latest/doc/21-development/#development-macos-dev-env) for setting up Icinga2 on macOS, but there is still no official support. That makes it difficult to deploy Icinga2 on macOS.

Here is our story. We monitor a little over 1,000 hosts, and we have about 75 macOS devices in that list. Most of the macOS devices are MacBooks that travel, so it’s not possible to monitor via SSH or other methods where checks must be initiated from another device on the same network. If we could run an agent on the macOS device, it could report results across the Internet to an Icinga server, and we would be able to track all of the information we need.

Is there any interest in getting an officially-supported agent for macOS? We’ve tinkered with building an agent on macOS and have gotten it to work, but our team members are not developers. They want an install process that is simple, stable, and supported.

This is what an officially-supported agent would look like in my opinion.

- Support for Intel and ARM processors
- Signed and notarized by Apple
- Installer should be able to run silently to allow automated installation

Our team would be an active participant in testing the agent software, and would even consider providing some financial support to get it done.

Let me know what you all think. Thanks!

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**Author:** ![nilmerg](https://community.icinga.com/user_avatar/community.icinga.com/nilmerg/32/277_2.png) [@nilmerg](https://community.icinga.com/u/nilmerg)\
**Post date:** [March 1, 2023, 9:40am UTC](https://community.icinga.com/t/macos-agent/11520/2 "2023-03-01T09:40:01Z")

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> [@jasoncrowley](#):
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> Support for Intel and ARM processors

> <https://github.com/Icinga/icinga-packaging/issues/220>
>
> Here we discuss the viability, demand and effort required to support ARM archite…cture for our packages. 
> A big issue on the way there is our lack of reliable infrastructure for building such packages, testing them and supporting them. 
> There are also questions about how well it might integrate with our current infrastructure (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI) and what the most efficient way of going about this might be. 
> 
> refs
> \#131
> \#172 
> \#199
> \#200 
> \#209 
> \#218

> [@jasoncrowley](#):
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> - Signed and notarized by Apple

That’s absolutely not on our agenda. We target only server installations.