The Broker daemon provides access to Shinken internal data. Its role is to get data from schedulers (like status and logs) and manage them. The management is done by modules. Many different modules exists : export to graphite, export to syslog, export into ndo database (MySQL and Oracle backend), service-perfdata export, couchdb export and more. To configure modules, consult the broker module definitions.
The Broker definition is optional.
Variables in red are required, while those in black are optional. However, you need to supply at least one optional variable in each definition for it to be of much use.
define broker{ | |
broker_name | broker_name |
address | dns name of ip address |
port | port |
spare | //[0/1]// |
realm | realm name |
manage_sub_realms | [0,1] |
modules | modules |
} |
define broker{
broker_name broker-1
address node1.mydomain
port 7772
spare 0
realm All
## Optional
manage_arbiters 1
manage_sub_realms 1
timeout 3 ; Ping timeout
data_timeout 120 ; Data send timeout
max_check_attempts 3 ; If ping fails N or more, then the node is dead
check_interval 60 ; Ping node every minutes manage_sub_realms 1
modules Livestatus,Simple-log,WebUI
}
broker_name
This variable is used to identify the short name of the broker which the data is associated with.
address
This directive is used to define the adress from where the main arbier can reach this broker. This can be a DNS name or a IP adress.
port
This directive is used to define the TCP port used bu the daemon. The default value is 7772.
spare
This variable is used to define if the broker must be managed as a spare one (will take the conf only if a master failed). The default value is 0 (master).
realm
This variable is used to define the realm where the broker will be put. If none is selected, it will be assigned to the default one.
manage_arbiters
Take data from Arbiter. There should be only one broker for the arbiter.
manage_sub_realms
This variable is used to define if the broker will take jobs from scheduler from the sub-realms of it’s realm. The default value is 1.
modules
This variable is used to define all modules that the broker will load. The main goal ofthe Broker is to give status to theses modules.