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Installation

Download and run the installation script with the following command:

curl -L http://install.shinken-monitoring.org | /bin/bash

Update the administators password:

editor /usr/local/shinken/etc/contacts.cfg

Update the auth secret

editor /usr/local/shinken/etc/shinken-specific.cfg

Install Mongodb support and reboot

cd /usr/local/shinken
./install -a mongodb
sudo apt-get install python-pip -y 
pip install pymongo 
sudo reboot

Now you can navigate to the server in order to configure it further or view information/alerts. Just go to http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:7767

Add A Server To Monitor

There is no point having a monitoring server that doesnt monitor any other servers. Here we are going to configure the Shinken server to monitor an external entity.

Add a config file to the

editor /usr/local/shinken/etc/hosts/[put-name-here].cfg

Add the following contents to it, ensuring to fill in the details between []

define host{
 use linux,ssh
 host_name [unique name here]
 address xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
 _SNMPCOMMUNITY [Password Here]
}

Restart the service for all changes to take effect.

sudo service shinken restart

Configure the Client

Install the snmpd service before configuring it:

sudo apt-get install snmpd -y
editor /etc/snmp/snmpd.conf

Comment out the following line:

agentAddress udp:127.0.0.1:161

Uncomment this line:

agentAddress udp:161,udp6:[::1]:161

Replace "rocommunity public" with whatever password you put in [Password Here] e.g.

rocommunity [PASSWORD HERE]

Restart the snmpd daemon

service snmpd restart

References