# argus-clients を Homebrew, dnf, MacPorts, Nix, apt でインストール

argus-clients のインストール経路、実行ファイル、メタデータ、AI エージェント向けセキュリティノートを確認します。

## インストール

```sh
sudo av install brew:argus-clients
```

追加のインストールコマンド:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install argus-clients
```

  証拠: local Homebrew formula metadata

- MacPorts (94%):

```sh
sudo port install argus-clients
```

  証拠: MacPorts ports tree: net/argus-clients/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1

### Linux

- dnf (92%):

```sh
sudo dnf install argus-clients
```

  証拠: Fedora Rawhide package metadata: argus-clients from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/07190dc5ae9f35ae73866675fed6d95fe6e8d9fe22c9d7cdf85862cb2ed24a4c-primary.xml.zst

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#argus-clients
```

  証拠: nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/ar/argus-clients/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1

- Debian apt (92%):

```sh
sudo apt install argus-client
```

  証拠: Debian stable package indexes: argus-client from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz

## パッケージ情報

- **パッケージキー:** brew:argus-clients
- **パッケージマネージャ:** Homebrew
- **バージョン:** 5.0.0
- **ソース概要:** Audit Record Generation and Utilization System clients
- **ホームページ:** <https://openargus.org>
- **リポジトリ:** <https://github.com/openargus/clients>
- **最終更新:** 2026-06-25T13:37:36+02:00
- **生成日時:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## 実行可能ファイル

- argusclientbug (エイリアス)
- ra (エイリアス)
- rabins (エイリアス)
- racluster (エイリアス)
- racount (エイリアス)
- radium (エイリアス)
- ramanage (エイリアス)
- ranonymize (エイリアス)
- rasort (エイリアス)
- rastream (エイリアス)

## インストール挙動

- Bottle: 利用不可

## バージョンと鮮度

- ページ生成日: 2026-08-03
- マネージャ版: 5.0.0
## プロジェクトの歴史と使われ方

Argus Clients is the analysis half of the OpenArgus network audit system: a collection of command-line programs that read, filter, aggregate, anonymize, sort, stream, and report on Argus flow records.

### プロジェクトの歴史

OpenArgus describes Argus as the first network flow system, developed by Carter Bullard in the early 1980s at Georgia Tech and adapted for cyber-security incident response at the first CERT at Carnegie Mellon's Software Engineering Institute in the late 1980s.

The modern project is split into two packages: `argus`, the packet-processing sensor that generates flow data, and `argus-clients`, the programs that process that data. The OpenArgus site says development moved to GitHub, with official repositories for both the sensor and client programs.

### 採用の歴史

OpenArgus says Argus has been used operationally by US Government, US DoD, DHS, DOE, large corporations, and university networks worldwide, and that it is used in research for performance analysis, situational awareness, cyber security, machine learning, and SDN-related work.

The client package is central to that adoption because Argus records become useful through CLI pipelines: `ra`-style readers, aggregators, anonymizers, sorters, stream processors, and reporting tools can be composed into real-time or retrospective workflows.

### 使われ方

The Homebrew package exposes many client commands, including `ra`, `rabins`, `racluster`, `racount`, `radium`, `ranonymize`, `rasort`, and `rastream`. OpenArgus describes the clients as tools for data distribution, collection, filtering, aggregation, binning, minimization, and analytics.

The `rarc` file is the client configuration surface. The existing curation cites official manpage documentation for `~/rarc` and `$ARGUSHOME/rarc`, and because client configuration can include access and transport settings, the same file is treated as the credentials location when credentials are configured.

### パッケージ好きにとっての重要性

Argus Clients is the sort of Unix package that rewards people who like composable command-line data plumbing. It is not a single dashboard; it is a suite of small programs for turning binary flow records into filtered, sorted, joined, aggregated, anonymized, and streamed outputs.

It also carries a long-lived network-operations lineage into modern package managers: an early flow-auditing ecosystem with its own record format, config files, and tool vocabulary, still installable as a contemporary Homebrew formula.

### タイムライン

- Early 1980s: Carter Bullard develops Argus at Georgia Tech.
- Late 1980s: Argus is adapted for incident response at CERT/SEI.
- 2020s: OpenArgus moves argus and argus-clients development to GitHub.
- Current: Argus 5.x client programs are released in sync with the sensor to read new flow-record features.

### Related projects

- The `argus` sensor package generates the flow records consumed by argus-clients.
- OpenArgus compares Argus data with NetFlow, Jflow, Qflow, Kflow, IPFIX, and historical flow-tools.

### ソース

- <https://openargus.org/>
- <https://openargus.org/documentation>
- <https://openargus.org/getting-argus>
- <https://openargus.org/using-argus>


## セキュリティノート

broad file, network, media, or database tool signal. infrastructure mutation or orchestration signal.

- **Geiger リスク:** orange / 中
- broad file, network, media, or database tool signal
- infrastructure mutation or orchestration signal


## Configuration and credential file locations

These source-backed paths show where this package keeps local settings or durable credentials. Automic Vault can use them as review targets for secret scanning, migration, and command approval.


## Configuration files

- Unix: ~/rarc, $ARGUSHOME/rarc

## Credential files

- Unix: ~/rarc, $ARGUSHOME/rarc
## 他のパッケージマネージャ記録

- Debian apt - argus-client - 1:5.0.2+git20250321.41f65e2-2: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: argus-client from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | IP network transaction auditing tool | http://qosient.com/argus
- Nix - argus-clients: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/ar/argus-clients/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- Ubuntu apt - argus-client - 1:3.0.8.2-6.2ubuntu4: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: argus-client from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | IP network transaction auditing tool | http://qosient.com/argus
- dnf - argus-clients - 3.0.8.2-31.fc45: normalized package name match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: argus-clients from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/07190dc5ae9f35ae73866675fed6d95fe6e8d9fe22c9d7cdf85862cb2ed24a4c-primary.xml.zst | Client tools for argus network audit | http://qosient.com/argus
- MacPorts - argus-clients: normalized package name match | MacPorts ports tree: net/argus-clients/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1


## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/argus-clients.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/argus-clients.yml)


## ソース

- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated configuration and credential file locations
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- external package-manager database matches
- cross-ecosystem install command graph