start [Shinken]

You will find tutorials, how-to's and all the information required to install, configure and work with Shinken.

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	Installing and starting Shinken in 10 min
	Presenting the Shinken Architecture
	Setting up a Shinken web UI (WebUI, Centreon, Ninja, Thruk, Multisite, NagVis or PNP)
	Setting up a basic Shinken configuration
	Setting up network and application dependencies
	Setting up Shinken discovery for automated provisioning

	Monitoring a Windows device
	Monitoring a GNU/Linux device
	Monitoring a router or a switch
	Monitoring a printer
	Monitoring a network service (Http(s), ftp, smtp/pop/imap, ldap, ...)
	Monitoring an ESX host or a VM

	Monitoring MySQL
	Monitoring Microsoft Sql server
	Monitoring Oracle database

	Monitoring Exchange
	Monitoring Active Directory
	Monitoring a DHCP server
	Monitoring a IIS server
	Monitoring an Asterisk server

Scaling Shinken for large installations

	Shinkens' architecture data flows explained
	What happens when a Shinken daemon crashes
	Shinkens' distributed architecture explained
	Proof of concept for the skonf configuration frontend

	Setting up distributed checks for slow WANs and different customers with Realms
	Setting up automatic links between ESX hosts and VMs with Vmotion support
	Integrating GLPI and Shinken
	Setting up Shinken discovery rules
	Digging in to the official documentation for additional information

You want to help the project? We are happy to welcome you!

Shinken Documentation

start.txt · Last modified: 2012/05/10 20:30 by xkilian

	Setting up passive checks
	Setting up distributed checks (LAN)
	Setting up high availability
	Setting up DMZ monitoring
	Adding tags on hosts based on their IP range
	Mixed windows AND Linux for checks and notifications/event handlers
	Setting up Business rules
	Focusing on critical business impacts and root problem isolation
	Setting up notification methods
	Setting up notification escalation
	Sending SMS messages(and reception for ack) to one (or more) Android phones(s)
	Setting up advanced dependencies