Monthly Archives: September 2014

Shinken Install Guide Part 3: Install the Poller

This one is pretty easy. In fact, you can almost go back to Part 1. Installation: For this installation I am assuming a vanilla Ubuntu 14 install with openssh and nano. (Edit your files the way you wish to. I’ll stick

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Shinken Install Guide Part 2. Configure the Master

In part 1 we installed the master. Now we configure the master.  But not before we insert some horrible Dr. Who reference. I hope everyone is happy now. Now that we are through that. Stop shinken. sudo /etc/init.d/shinken stop Refresh the web page

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Shinken Install Guide Part 1 Install the Master

Shinken is a Python- based network monitoring software based on the popular Nagios framework written by Jean Gabès (https://github.com/naparuba and http://fr.linkedin.com/in/gabesjean ). Shinken was written initially as a new version of Nagios and has now been produced as a separate

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Shinken Build Notes Day 1

I’ll put together a full how to when I am done but I’ll also be using this to put together build notes. I’ll solicit thoughts from the Shinken community (http://www.shinken-monitoring.org/forum/index.php) as I go. Reference materials are here but I have

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Shinken Build Notes Day 2

Shinken’s dependcies are all python based so lets get all needed tools installed sudo apt-get install python-pip python-pycurl python-setuptools python-paramiko Next we add user for the shinken monitoring user. adduser shinken Now we use pip to install shinken. More on

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