By following this tutorial, in 10 minutes you will have a fully installed monitoring tool for your network. Ready? Let's go.
Save time, use the shinken.sh installation script !
cd ~ wget http://www.shinken-monitoring.org/pub/shinken-0.8.1.tar.gz tar xfz shinken-0.8.1.tar.gz cd shinken-0.8.1 sudo chmod +x shinken.sh sudo ./shinken.sh -i
You want more? A shinken.sh -h will show you what you can do :
check_esx3, nagios-plugins, check_oracle_health, check_mysql_health, check_wmi_plus, check_mongodb, check_emc_clariion, check_nwc_health, check_hpasm, capture_plugin, pnp4nagios, multisite
Just type shinken.sh -p <wanted_plugin> and you will be done :)
To be continued ;)
Get the http://shinken-monitoring.org/pub/shinken-0.8.1.tar.gz file in c:\shinken
During portions of the installation you'll need to have administrator access to your server. Make sure you've installed the following packages on your Windows installation before continuing.
Take the files instsrv.exe and srvany.exe from the directory of the resource kit (typically “c:\program files\Windows Resource Kits\Tools”) and put them in the directory “c:\shinken\windows” (it should already exist by decompressing the archive, or you are a directory level to deep).
To install all services, launch the installation batch file :
c:\shinken\windows\install-all.bat
Launch services.msc to see you brand new services (Shinken-*).
But don't start them yet, you should jump up to the discovery part before starting new Shinken services.
Prerequisites :
Install python Pyro :
# yum install python-pyro
Install Shinken :
Download RPM to the url http://hvad.fedorapeople.org/fedora/shinken/RPM/
# yum localinstall --nogpgcheck shinken-0.8.1-1.fc15.noarch.rpm shinken-arbiter-0.8.1-1.fc15.noarch.rpm shinken-broker-0.8.1-1.fc15.noarch.rpm shinken-poller-0.8.1-1.fc15.noarch.rpm shinken-reactionner-0.8.1-1.fc15.noarch.rpm shinken-receiver-0.8.1-1.fc15.noarch.rpm shinken-scheduler-0.8.1-1.fc15.noarch.rpm
Enable Shinken services :
# for i in arbiter poller reactionner scheduler broker; do systemctl enable shinken-$i.service ; done
Start Shinken services :
# for i in arbiter poller reactionner scheduler broker; do systemctl start shinken-$i.service ; done
Stop Shinken services :
# for i in arbiter poller reactionner scheduler broker; do systemctl stop shinken-$i.service ; done
Shinken is packaged on the debian “sid” : Prerequisites :
aptitude install shinken python-simplejson python-pysqlite2 python-mysqldb python-redis python-memcache
Start Shinken services :
# for i in broker poller reactionner receiver scheduler arbiter ; do /etc/init.d/shinken-$i start ;done
Stop Shinken services :
for i in broker poller reactionner receiver scheduler arbiter ; do /etc/init.d/shinken-$i stop ;done
You are now ready to start the system, launch Shinken and Thruk.
/etc/init.d/shinken start /etc/init.d/thruk start
You can validate that the software is running smoothly by tailing the main log file at :
tail -f /var/lib/shinken/shinken.log
And by connecting to the web interface at http://localhost:3000 (or use the IP address of your server)
Congrats, you just launched your next monitoring tool 
Now you can go through the rest of the wiki to learn how to work with the configuration, and customize it as you need. There are tutorials in the getting started section for common tasks and there is an official documentation manual that provides in depth coverage of features and options.
Now are ready to learn how to configure the Shinken daemons, your gentle introduction to distributed monitoring, by reading the configure Shinken page.
