Shinken Manual
  • About
    • About Shinken
    • Feature comparison between Shinken and Nagios
    • Shinken notable innovations
    • The project Vision
    • Feature selection and release cycle
  • Getting Started
    • Advice for Beginners
    • Quickstart Installation Guides
    • Installations
    • Upgrading Shinken
  • Configuring Shinken
    • Configuration Overview
    • Main Configuration File (shinken.cfg) Options
    • Object Configuration Overview
    • Object Definitions
    • Custom Object Variables
    • Main advanced configuration
  • Running Shinken
    • Verifying Your Configuration
    • Starting and Stopping Shinken
  • The Basics
    • Setting up a basic Shinken Configuration
    • Monitoring Plugins
    • Understanding Macros and How They Work
    • Standard Macros in Shinken
    • Host Checks
    • Service Checks
    • Active Checks
    • Passive Checks
    • State Types
    • Time Periods
    • Determining Status and Reachability of Network Hosts
    • Notifications
    • Active data acquisition modules
    • Setup Network and logical dependencies in Shinken
    • Update Shinken
  • Medium
    • Business rules
    • Monitoring a DMZ
    • Shinken High Availability
    • Mixed GNU/linux AND Windows pollers
    • Notifications and escalations
    • The Notification Ways, AKA mail 24x7, SMS only the night for a same contact
    • Passive data acquisition
  • Advanced Topics
    • External Commands
    • Event Handlers
    • Volatile Services
    • Service and Host Freshness Checks
    • Distributed Monitoring
    • Redundant and Failover Network Monitoring
    • Detection and Handling of State Flapping
    • Notification Escalations
    • On-Call Rotations
    • Monitoring Service and Host Clusters
    • Host and Service Dependencies
    • State Stalking
    • Performance Data
    • Scheduled Downtime
    • Adaptive Monitoring
    • Predictive Dependency Checks
    • Cached Checks
    • Passive Host State Translation
    • Service and Host Check Scheduling
    • Object Inheritance
    • Advanced tricks
    • Migrating from Nagios to Shinken
    • Multi layer discovery
    • Multiple action urls
    • Aggregation rule
    • Scaling Shinken for large deployments
    • Defining advanced service dependencies
    • Shinken’s distributed architecture
    • Shinken’s distributed architecture with realms
    • Macro modulations
    • Shinken and Android
    • Send sms by gateway
    • Triggers
    • Unused nagios parameters
    • Advanced discovery with Shinken
    • Discovery with Shinken
  • Config
    • Host Definition
    • Host Group Definition
    • Service Definition
    • Service Group Definition
    • Contact Definition
    • Contact Group Definition
    • Time Period Definition
    • Command Definition
    • Service Dependency Definition
    • Service Escalation Definition
    • Host Dependency Definition
    • Host Escalation Definition
    • Extended Host Information Definition
    • Extended Service Information Definition
    • Notification Way Definition
    • Realm Definition
    • Arbiter Definition
    • Scheduler Definition
    • Poller Definition
    • Reactionner Definition
    • Broker Definition
  • Shinken Architecture
    • Arbiter supervision of Shinken processes
    • Advanced architectures
    • How are commands and configurations managed in Shinken
    • Problems and impacts correlation management
    • Shinken Architecture
  • Troubleshooting
    • FAQ - Shinken troubleshooting
  • Integration With Other Software
    • Integration Overview
    • SNMP Trap Integration
    • TCP Wrappers Integration
    • Use Shinken with Thruk
    • Nagios CGI UI
    • Thruk interface
    • Use Shinken with ...
    • Use Shinken with Centreon
    • Use Shinken with Graphite
    • Use Shinken with Multisite
    • Use Shinken with Nagvis
    • Use Shinken with Old CGI and VShell
    • Use Shinken with PNP4Nagios
    • Use Shinken with WebUI
  • Security and Performance Tuning
    • Security Considerations
    • Tuning Shinken For Maximum Performance
    • Scaling a Shinken installation
    • Shinken performance statistics
    • Graphing Performance Info With MRTG and nagiostats
  • How to monitor ...
    • Monitoring Active Directory
    • Monitoring Asterisk servers
    • Monitoring DHCP servers
    • Monitoring IIS servers
    • Monitoring Linux devices
    • Monitoring Linux devices
    • Monitoring Linux devices via a Local Agent
    • Monitoring Linux devices via SNMP
    • Monitoring Microsoft Exchange
    • Monitoring Microsoft SQL databases
    • Monitoring MySQL databases
    • Monitoring Routers and Switches
    • Monitoring Network devices
    • Monitoring Oracle databases
    • Monitoring Printers
    • Monitoring Publicly Available Services
    • Monitoring VMware hosts and machines
    • Monitoring Windows devices
    • Monitoring Windows devices via NSClient++
    • Monitoring Windows devices via WMI
  • How to contribute
    • Shinken packs
    • Shinken modules and Shinken packs
    • Help the Shinken project
    • Getting Help and Ways to Contribute
    • Shinken Package Manager
  • Development
    • Shinken Programming Guidelines
    • Test Driven Development
    • Shinken Plugin API
    • Developing Shinken Daemon Modules
    • Hacking the Shinken Code
    • Shinken documentation
  • Deprecated
    • Review of script’s option and parameters
    • Review of variable used in the script
    • Shinken on RedHat 6 with Thruk and PNP4Nagios HOWTO
  • Shinken modules
  • Reference
    • Exceptions
    • shinken
    • shinken Package
    • clients Package
    • daemons Package
    • discovery Package
    • misc Package
    • objects Package
    • webui Package
 
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