10 Minute Shinken Installation Guide¶

Basic automated installation¶

You can get the sources and launch the install script with just this command :

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

You can then jump to the “Start Shinken” section and continue from there.

If instead want to make it manually, go in the next step :)

Installation using the sources¶

Download stable Shinken v1.4 tarball archive (or get the latest git snapshot) and extract it somewhere:

cd ~
wget http://www.shinken-monitoring.org/pub/shinken-1.4.tar.gz
tar -xvzf shinken-1.4.tar.gz

By default the installation path is /usr/local/shinken, but it can be specified in the configuration file (see install.d/README).

Run a basic installation¶

You need to have lsb-release package installed.

cd ~/shinken-1.4
./install -i

Done! Shinken is installed and you can edit its configuration files in /usr/local/shinken/etc (by default).

Init.d scripts are also copied, so you just have to enable them at boot time (with chkconfig or update-rc.d).

Start Shinken¶

To start Shinken:

/etc/init.d/shinken start

But wait! The installation script can do much more for you, such as installing plugins, addons, upgrading and removing an installation. See the install.d/README file or full install script doc to know how you can get the best out of it.

Run a full installation¶

To list the plugins and addons available:

./install -h

A common and fully featured installation is:

./install -i &&\
./install -p nagios-plugins &&\
./install -p check_mem &&\
./install -p manubulon &&\
./install -a multisite &&\
./install -a pnp4nagios &&\
./install -a nagvis &&\
./install -a mongodb

This will automatically install:

• Shinken
• Nagios plugins
• Manubulon SNMP plugins
• Multisite
• PNP4Nagios
• Nagvis
• MongoDB # This is used for the SkonfUI beta and WebUI

For more information regarding the install script. See the full install script doc

Update¶

See update Shinken.

First install Python Pyro¶

yum install python-pyro

Then install Shinken¶

yum install shinken  shinken-poller\
shinken-scheduler shinken-arbiter \
shinken-reactionner shinken-broker shinken-receiver

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

Easy is not it?

Download the Executable installer¶

Download the executable installer for Shinken 1.4.

Thanks to J-F BUTKIEWICZ for preparing the installation package.

Read the installation instructions¶

Installation instructions at http://www.veosoft.net/index.php/en/tutorials/shinken-tutorials/shinken-1-2-4-installation-on-windows-2008-r2

Run the installer¶

What? You don’t want to read them? No problem.

Simply launch the .exe and click Next until the installation has run its course. :-)

The executable installer creates service and copies the necessary files into C:/Program Files (x86)/Shinken by default, but you can change that target folder as you want.

CHECK_WMI_PLUS configuration¶

By default, check_wmi_plus.pl use an user/password to access the windows WMI functions. But locally (shinken host managed itself on windows), this cannot be done. So the local template always works even if a wrong user/password is set. In the commands file, just set local to user and localhost to the computer.

But now, how to configure shinken to manage others windows hosts using wmi. Shinken team provides a set of commands in the windows template. We will see how to set the user/password to work properly. But there is an “extra” function to use the poller’s service to push its credential to check_wmi_plus. This kind of configuration and globaly the use of check_wmi_plus under windows is described in this link.