{"id":3092,"date":"2018-03-06T03:48:43","date_gmt":"2018-03-06T03:48:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/?p=3092"},"modified":"2018-03-06T03:48:43","modified_gmt":"2018-03-06T03:48:43","slug":"how-to-install-n-able-agent-mac-os-x","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/research\/how-to-install-n-able-agent-mac-os-x","title":{"rendered":"How to Install N-Able agent Mac OS X"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>Installing N-able on a windows machine is as simple as running an MSI with the customer ID and creates an activation key for you\u00a0<\/p><p>On a Mac you would think this would be the same however not!\u00a0<\/p><ol><li>Add the Device Manually on the N-able server under your client<\/li><\/ol><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1753\" height=\"1333\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3094  img-responsive\" src=\"http:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/img_5a9e0e014fa42.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/img_5a9e0e014fa42.png 1753w, https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/img_5a9e0e014fa42-300x228.png 300w, https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/img_5a9e0e014fa42-768x584.png 768w, https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/img_5a9e0e014fa42-1024x779.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1753px) 100vw, 1753px\" \/><\/p><p><br \/><br \/>Enter the Device Name and IP Address ( address should be fully qualified domain pc.domain.local ) , change the machine Workstation OSX and class to correct<br \/><br \/>Set Local Agent Tab to <strong>Manual\u00a0<\/strong>Click Save Button<\/p><p>Navigate to the nearly created device and go to <strong>Settings<\/strong> and sub Tab <strong>Local Agent<\/strong><\/p><p>Download the\u00a0 <strong>agent-macosx.tar.gz\u00a0<\/strong>file from the link it gives you and copy the Activation Key<\/p><p>Extract the\u00a0 agent-macosx.tar.gz on the Mac after downloading\u00a0<br \/><br \/>Open \u201cagent-macos.pkg&#8221;<\/p><p>If you getcan\u2019t be open because the identity of the developer cannot be confirmed\u201d, please change Security and Privacy settings as follow ?nd try again:<\/p><p>1. Open \u201cSystem Preferences\u201d<br \/>2. Select \u201cSecurity &amp; Privacy\u201d<br \/>3. Go to General tab<br \/>4. Click the Lock (bottom-left corner) to unlock it (administrative password is required)<br \/>5. Set \u201cAllow apps downloaded from\u201d to Anywhere<br \/>6. Close the dialog<br \/>7. Repeat agent installation<br \/>8. Change \u201cSecurity &amp; Privacy\u201d to the initial setting if needed<\/p><p>Once running it might fail to generate an Activation Key , if you go back you can choose to authenticate with a key ,\u00a0use the Key you copied from previous step and this should activate<br \/><br \/><br \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Installing N-able on a windows machine is as simple as running an MSI with the customer ID and creates an activation key for you\u00a0On a Mac you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2308,2306,2305,1344,2310,2307,2309,1479],"class_list":["post-3092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research","tag-agent","tag-agent-macos-pkg","tag-agent-macosx-tar-gz","tag-error","tag-installation","tag-mac-osx","tag-mac-workstation","tag-n-able"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3092"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3095,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3092\/revisions\/3095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}