diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 8808731..c93797d 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
 *.pyc
 __pycache__
-examples/config.test.json
\ No newline at end of file
+examples/config.test.json
+build
+dist
+pymonitor.egg-info
diff --git a/bin/pymonitor b/bin/pymonitor
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..70c95f5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/bin/pymonitor
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+
+from pymonitor import daemon
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    daemon.run_cli()
diff --git a/pymonitor/daemon.py b/pymonitor/daemon.py
index 68df9f9..4ea291c 100755
--- a/pymonitor/daemon.py
+++ b/pymonitor/daemon.py
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ class Backend:
         
         self.sysinfo = {}
         self.update_sys_info()
-        logger.info("running on %(hostname)s (%(ipaddr)s)" % self.sysinfo)
+        self.logger.info("running on %(hostname)s (%(ipaddr)s)" % self.sysinfo)
     
     def connect(self):
         self.logger.info("final mapping %s" % self.mapping)
@@ -194,7 +194,7 @@ class MonitorThread(Thread):
         self.logger.info("cancelling scheduler")
         self.alive=False
 
-if __name__ == '__main__':
+def run_cli():
     from optparse import OptionParser
     logging.basicConfig(level=logging.DEBUG, format="%(asctime)-15s %(levelname)-8s %(name)s@%(filename)s:%(lineno)d %(message)s")
     logger = logging.getLogger("init")
@@ -221,4 +221,6 @@ if __name__ == '__main__':
     except KeyboardInterrupt:
         print("")
         daemon.shutdown()
-    
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    run_cli()
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..b0d039e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+from setuptools import setup
+
+__version__ = "0.0.1"
+
+setup(name='pymonitor',
+    version=__version__,
+    description='python daemon for logging system metrics to elasticsearch db',
+    url='http://gitlab.xmopx.net/dave/python-esmonitor',
+    author='dpedu',
+    author_email='dave@davepedu.com',
+    packages=['pymonitor', 'pymonitor.builtins', 'pymonitor.monitors'],
+    scripts=['bin/pymonitor'],
+    zip_safe=False)