Prerequisites for Shinken 1.2¶

This page lists the prerequisites of shinken. A packager can use these dependencies when creating a package for his distribution and others can use it as a reference when installing on a new OS which is unsupported until now.

Build Dependencies for certain modules¶

These packages are only needed if one or more of the required modules are not contained in the distros repositories or only in a version that is not sufficiently high enough.

The package names are from Debian/Ubuntu, please adapt as needed

build-essential
libperl-dev
libsqlite3-dev
python-dev
libmysqlclient-dev
libevent-dev
python-setuptools

Core, Libs and Modules¶

Python >= 2.4 for CORE

Python >= 2.6 for WebUI and Skonf

Pyro >= 4.0, if possible 4.9 or 4.14

pysqlite:sqlite3 >= <version> for livestatus

MySQL_python:MySQLdb >= <version> for ndomod

pymongo >= 2.1 : for WebUI

pycurl for Skonf configuration pack management

paramiko (only if you use installer script)

netifaces (only if you use installer script)

Optional Python Modules for Extended Features¶

kombu : only if you use canopsis module

simplejson : only if python 2.5 used

python-ldap : active directory authentication (needed by Shinken WebUI ActiveDir_UI module)

ujson : ujson (preferred by Livestatus over simplejson)

Python >= 2.7 for running the Shinken Test Suite. This is mandatory for developers.

Additional Software¶

sqlite3

nmap : for discovery feature

unzip

nagios-plugins

mongodb