Welcome to the Shinken project.
Shinken is a new, Nagios compatible monitoring tool, written in Python. Its main goal is to give users a flexible architecture for their monitoring system that is designed to scale to large environments. It’s as simple as in all the marketing “cloud computing” slides, but here, it’s real!
Shinken is backwards-compatible with the Nagios configuration standard and plug-ins. It works on any operating system and architecture that supports Python, which includes Windows and GNU/Linux.
You just need to add a shinken user (in the shinken group) on your system:
useradd --user-group shinken usermod --lock shinken
Then move the shinken directory and give it to the shinken user:
mv shinken /usr/local chown -R shinken:shinken /usr/local/shinken
You can install really the application by using the setup.py script. It will install the shinken library in the python path, create the /etc/shinken and /var/lib/shinken directory (you can change them in the setup.cfg file before launching setup.py). You will need the python-setuptools package for it. Then just run:
sudo python setup.py install --install-scripts=/usr/bin/
For the compilation part in both way it's easy: there is no compilation!
You can use the shinken.sh utility script located at : shinken/contrib/alternative-installation/shinken-install The script create the user and group, install all dependencies and then install shinken. It is compatible with Debian, Ubuntu, Centos/Redhat 5.x and 6.x The only requirement is an internet connection for the server on which you want to install shinken. It also allow to modify the installation folder in a configuration file.
If you want shinken installed in seconds in /opt/shinken, just run :
shinken.sh -i
If you want to remove shinken, just run :
shinken.sh -d
- If you used the setup.py way, launch :
- sudo python setup.py update --install-scripts=/usr/bin/
If you used the shinken.sh way :
there is curently no simple way to do this :
1 - backup the var etc and plugins folder
2 - remove shinken (shinken -d)
3 - install shinken (shinken -i)
4 - restore the backups
shinken requires
- `Python`__ 2.4 or higher (Python 2.6 or higher is recommended if you want to use the Web interface)
- `setuptools`__ or `distribute`__ for installation (see below).
- `Pyro`__
- multiprocessing Python package when using Python 2.4 or 2.5 (multiprocessing is already included in Python 2.6 and higher)
If (and only if) you plan to use the livestatus module or the web interface, I'll also need
Just untar and launch python setup.py install (and be sure to have installed the python-devel package too).
For Python, it should be okay with nearly all distribution.
Under ubuntu, you can grab the Pyro module with:
sudo apt-get install pyro
Under other distributions, you can search for it:
yum search pyro
And if you do not find it, you can install it from PyPI:
easy_install pyro
And that's all folks :)
The configuration is where you put the etc directory (in /usr/local/shinken/etc for a quick and dirty install, /etc/shinken for a clean one).
The nagios.cfg file is meant to be shared with Nagios. All Shinken specific objects (like links to daemons or realms) are in the file shinken-specific.cfg.
No, there is no need to change the existing configuration - unless you want to add some new hosts and services. Once you are comfortable with Shinken you can start to use its unique and powerful features.
It's easy, there is a already launch script for you:
shinken/bin/launch_all.sh
The setup.py installes some init.d scripts, let's use them:
/etc/init.d/shinken-scheduler start /etc/init.d/shinken-poller start /etc/init.d/shinken-reactionner start /etc/init.d/shinken-broker start /etc/init.d/shinken-arbiter start
None that we know of. :)
If you find one, please post it to the bug and issue tracker : https://github.com/naparuba/shinken/issues
There is a script called clean.sh in the source directory for this task. Beware, it will supress all Shinken related files!