This quick guide covers how to install and configure Pickaxe, our agent.

1. Sign Up
   First, you’ll need to sign up here (enjoy a free, full-featured 30-day trial). Once you’re done, you’ll be directed to your private dashboard
    

   

   
    

2. Install Our Agent
   Pickaxe is our agent that feeds real-time metrics to your private dashboard. It needs to be installed, and how you do that depends on your mining setup. You can find detailed information for this here. If you’re a Linux user, it’s short, sweet, and looks something like this:

   

   
    

3. Add a Miner
   Once you have Pickaxe running, you can add your miners to Foreman. Once they’re added, the sync process can take ~2 minutes.
    

   

    

   Have an ASIC farm? Add them all in one swoop with Find Miners from the Pickaxe page

After a few minutes, you should start seeing real-time data on your dashboard. Assuming your miners are healthy, your dashboard will start updating and turning green. Now you can play around and see what Foreman has to offer. Customize your dashboard, view your real-time earnings, configure alerting, and remotely change your ASIC pools.

Explore within our Knowledge Base for more articles on how to get the most out of your Foreman experience!