The Paglo Crawler is the heart of how Paglo gathers data from your network. Up until now it has been a windows only application. A number of users have found this a bit irksome because the best machines to run such a crawler on were not windows machines for them, but linux machines.

Many parts of its code base are fairly platform agnostic. We took the effort and we have made the paglo crawler compile under linux. These changes have been comitted to our open source repository at:

http://svn.paglo.com/paglo_open_source/crawler/trunk/

To spare people the “fun” of building the package themselves we are also providing a .deb package that they can just install on their machines. This should “just work” on ubuntu and debian intel/AMD based machines.

For those of you in Red Hat land asking “what about us?!” do not worry, a RPM is on its way as well.

The one caveat of this version of the crawler is that it can not probe Windows based WMI services like the windows version of the crawler can.

Otherwise, though, the scanning code and the Ruby based plugins are the exact same code as on the windows version of the crawler.

You can download the .deb package on the crawler’s page at:

http://paglo.com/opensource/paglocrawler