Installing frontman on Synology DSM
User your NAS as a powerful monitoring station
Open the control panel and navigate to the "Info Center". There your will find information about the CPU the NAS is baed on.
Find out your CPU model
The following table indicates which package is suitable for your CPU
CPU Model | Architecture | Package |
Marvell Armada 38*, 37*, XP(2C/2T) | ARMv7 | frontman_X_synology_armv7.spk |
Annapurna (any) | ARMv7 | frontman_X_synology_armv7.spk |
Mindspeed (any) | ARMv7 | rontman_X_synology_armv7.spk |
Marvell Armada 3700 (2C/2T) | ARMv8 | frontman_X_synology_armv8.spk |
Any Intel | X86_64 | frontman_X_synology_amd64.spk |
Always use stable versions! Never use beta version or release candidates.
Install the package using the Package Center
Open the package center of the DSM and use "Manual Install" on the top right corner and upload the package.
Upload the package.
When asked, enter the Hub Username and the Hub Password which CloudRadar has generated.
Copy the configuration.
Click "Next" and you are done.
Unfortunately the DSM does not provide the possibility to change the settings of an already installed package. You must uninstall and re-install the package to change the settings. Experienced user can change the settings of a running frontman using SSH. See below.
If you are experienced with the SSH access to the NAS, you can change the settings of frontman using the
vi editor. The config is located at /etc/frontman/frontman.conf. Logs can be found at /var/log/frontman/frontman.log.Last modified 3yr ago