Shinken Official Documentation

• Ethan Galstad (Nagios Enterprises): first versions, 1999→2007
• Sébastien Guilbaud: HTML to Docbook transformation
• Olivier Jan: HTML to Docbook transformation
• Jean Gabès: DocBook to xhtml, xhtml to dokuwiki, adaptation to Shinken

Table of Contents

• About
  • About Shinken
  • What's different between Shinken and Nagios
• Getting Started
  • Advice for Beginners
  • Quickstart Installation Guides
  • GNU/Linux Quickstart
  • Windows Quickstart
  • Upgrading Shinken
  • Monitoring Windows Machines
  • Monitoring Linux/Unix Machines
  • Monitoring Netware Servers
  • Monitoring Network Printers
  • Monitoring Routers and Switches
  • Monitoring Publicly Available Services
• Configuring Shinken
  • Configuration Overview
  • Main Configuration File Options
  • Object Configuration Overview
  • Object Definitions
  • Custom Object Variables
  • CGI Configuration File Options
  • Authentication And Authorization In The CGIs
• Running Shinken
  • Verifying Your Configuration
  • Starting and Stopping Shinken
• The Basics
  • Nagios/Shinken 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
  • Information On The CGIs
• 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
  • Custom CGI Headers and Footers
  • Object Inheritance
  • Time-Saving Tricks For Object Definitions
  • Problems and impacts correlation management
  • Business rules
• Security and Performance Tuning
  • Security Considerations
  • Enhanced CGI Security and Authentication
  • Tuning Shinken For Maximum Performance
  • Large Installation Tweaks
  • Using The Nagiostats Utility
  • Graphing Performance Info With MRTG
• Integration With Other Software
  • Integration Overview
  • SNMP Trap Integration
  • TCP Wrappers Integration
• Nagios/Shinken Addons
  • Nagios/Shinken Addons
• Development
  • Nagios/Shinken Plugin API
  • Developing Plugins For Use With Embedded Perl
  • Hacking Shinken Code

Shinken is not related with the official Nagios project nor Nagios Enterprise.

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Shinken is provided “AS IS” with “NO WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, INCLUDING THE WARRANTY OF DESIGN, MERCHANTABILITY, AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.”

Copyright © 1999-2007 Ethan Galstad, Nagios Enterprises Copyright © 2007-2009 Sébastien Guilbaud and Olivier Jan Copyright © 2009→now Jean Gabès and the Shinken community