Welcome to the Shinken Documentation Wiki

Getting started with Shinken

	Installing and starting Shinken in 10 minutes
	Presenting the Shinken Architecture
	Setting up a Shinken web UI (WebUI, Thruk, MK Multisite, NagVis or PNP)
	Setting up a basic Shinken configuration

Getting data in Shinken

	Using Monitoring packs
	Monitoring packs community exchange
	Using passive data acquisition modules: NSCA, TSCA, WebService...
	Using active data acquisition modules: NRPE and SNMP
	Setting up discovery for automated provisioning
	Using check plugins for data acquisition

Getting data out of Shinken

	Setting up notification methods
	Setting up notification escalation
	Sending SMS messages(and reception for ack) to one (or more) Android phones(s)
	Centralizing Shinken logs
	Exporting data to Syslog
	Exporting data to Splunk (coming soon)
	Enabling the Livestatus API
	Exporting performance data to Graphite
	Exporting performance data to PNP
	Exporting performance data to Splunk (coming soon)

Getting more from Shinken

	Setting up network and application dependencies
	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
	Defining on business impacts and root problem isolation
	Setting up advanced dependencies

Shinken for large installations

Scaling Shinken for large installations

Shinken internals

	Shinkens' architecture data flows explained
	Shinkens' livestatus API
	What happens when a Shinken daemon crashes
	Shinkens' distributed architecture explained
	Shinkens' internal / performance metrics

Advanced topics

	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
	Integrating Landscape (Ubuntu) and Shinken
	Integrating Amazon EC2 and Shinken
	Setting up Shinken discovery rules
	Digging in to the official documentation for additional information

Contributing to the project

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

Learn more about the project and the many ways you can help make it an even bigger success.