Support of ciscos ip service level agreement mechanism. I have recently started looking in to shinken as we use glpi extensively. It is written in python, so it should work under all python supported. Glpi also integrates with tools like fusioninventory for it inventory management. It is written using python and is licensed under the terms of the gnu affero general public license. Or an alternative software created to make this task. The first method is to visit the projects home page and download glpi software or via the command line utility known as wget. Its a great improvement, about 1 year of hard work since glpi 0. For the purpose of this tutorial, we will monitor ubuntu client. Comparison of network monitoring systems wikipedia. Shinken aims to monitor all it, including network services, host resources, end user applications, etc.
You should see a green dot in front of state system indicating that all shinken daemon works as well as ping. Shinken was written by jean gabes as proof of concept for a new nagios architecture, but it was turned down by the nagios author and. Install shinken monitoring framework on ubuntu unixmen. Thruk multibackend monitoring web interface with support for naemon, nagios, icinga and shinken. I personally find shinken to be one of the most compatible, modern and dare i say, a better alternative to nagios. Shinken is a monitoring tool compatible with nagios configuration, plugins and interfaces. Shinken is now used in small and large enterprise environments. Glpi a powerful tool to manage the hardware of a computing fleet. I have been using glpi with fusion inventory for a good few years and it has gone from strength to strength with printer levels and pc monitoring checking software installed and so on and it works really well. I want to know which is the better one to monitor multiple hosts, and trigger jobs or alarms for basic change of state.
In our previous tutorial, we discussed about shinken monitoring framework installation on ubuntu 14. Zabbix enterpriseclass software for monitoring of networks and applications. If this is your first visit, be sure to check out the faq by clicking the link above. Today, we will discuss how to monitor a linux client with shinken. Grafana is the open source analytics and monitoring solution for every database. Shinken, this software is born a few years ago with the idea to make a monitoring solution compatible with the cloud, with distinct elements that can be replicated and multiply, and so is possible to raise the number of checks really easily and without any loss in performance. Hence, it is based on nagios core you can use the nagios configuration and plugins without modifying or rewriting them. Zenoss application, server, and network management platform.
A big surprise for me has been the strong push for alternatives softwares to nagios for monitoring in particular shinken and icinga have received many praise. The development environment is under linux, but also runs well on other unix variants and windows. Nagios is known for being the best server monitoring software on the market. So i came across, shinken monitoring framework nagios and mynetdata.
Obtaining glpi is very simple and can be accomplished one of two ways. Shinken is an open source computer and network monitoring framework written in python and compatible with nagios. Formation glpi installation et adminisration installer. Install glpi it and asset management tool with fusion. And now, you must have the following window if you go in glpi monitoring page. A glpi plugin to monitor computers, network equipments and printers with shinken. At this point, mysql is ready and it is time to obtain the glpi software.
Application performance management it asset management database management network monitoring help desk issue tracking devops. To have already data in glpi, you can do it by hand or use an automate tool, like fusioninventory. Hi i am installing the shinken monitoring tool and i encounter the following errrors show in the attachment. Nagios a robust and scalable hostservicenetwork monitoring system currently unmaintained in debian munin munin a networked resource monitoring tool see also teamsmuninmaintainers. In this post, i will do a quick comparison between the two tools, show you reasons to. It is written inpython, so it should work under all python supported platforms. Comtigo allows us to move easily to the locations present and manipulate the elements in a very dynamic grid. Server monitoring is made easy in nagios because of the flexibility to monitor your servers with both agentbased and agentless monitoring. Alerting or taking action on failures and recovery. Shinken offers flexible monitoring capabilities quintagroup. In comtodo, we develop a glpi plugin that we call comtigo rmm remote management and monitoring, which provides a more modern and intuitive interface to various elements such as inventory, dashboard, tickets, projects and reports.
Used by thousands of companies to monitor everything from infrastructure, applications, and power plants to beehives. The following tables compare general and technical information for a number of network monitoring systems. It supervises hosts and services from an it and business point of view. Shinken is a system and network monitoring application. However, do not hesitate to ask on dedicated forums if you encounter problems. With over 5000 different addons available to monitor your servers, the community at the nagios exchange have left no stone unturned. Supports arranging the hosts or devices it monitors. Monitoring of resource use for billing purposes is part of the cloud computing business model and so should be an integral part of any iaas solution. Shinken module for importing hosts from a mysql server shinkenmonitoringmod import glpi. Applicable to servers, routers, printers or anything you want for that matter. Thruk is a multibackend monitoring webinterface which currently supports naemon, nagios, icinga and shinken as backend using the livestatus api.
Manage the configuration of shinken monitoring via glpi get state of all services in real time in glpi get history of checks with rrdtool graphs. Glpi it asset and inventory management open source guide. Moreover it would be helpful if anyone can help me understand that whats the fundamental different between two. Nagios the industry standard in it infrastructure monitoring. This proposal was turned down by the nagios authors, so shinken became an independent network monitoring software application compatible with nagios. The name of the software, linked to its wikipedia article. Fully scalable, it supervises hosts and services from an it and business. It system and application monitoring shinken can monitor all it from systems to end user applications. Please see the individual products articles for further information. You can still have flat files and glpi if you want.
To start viewing messages, select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below. If you restart shinken from here a glpi notification will appear. But as with any software, there is always competition. Shinken module for using glpi helpdesk in the webui. Glpi, nfsen, nedi, and docuwiki the highest level version has also otrs, all these software are integrated with some web management interface developed by wuerthphoenix itself. The best place to run grafana, graphite, prometheus, and loki. Why did you modified source code to change a configuration parameter that is stored in the module cfg file. Shinken can be used on all operating systems that can run python applications like linux, unix, and windows. For people not familiar with glpi, it is an opensource cmdb.
Standard windows checks, like cpu, ram and disk space. Shinken offers flexible monitoring capabilities shinken is free and open source computer system and network monitoring tool, inspired by nagios and compatible with it. You can see that you can restart shinken from the glpi interface. It will aim to collect and centralize information necessary for network administrators and colleagues. Monitoring plugin for glpi allows to monitor managed computers. Shinken is a monitoring tool compatible withnagioscon. Some people still consider it as an it standard for monitoring. Looking for nagiosspiceworks shinken alternative i need software to monitor my intranet consisting of 1020 machines windows, linux, esxi, router, switches, a couple of nas. Although the same method will work for the other linux distributions. How to monitor linux clients using shinken unixmen. My notes from open source system management conference. The product should also handle the automatic configuration of a permanent storage space for vms, as well as providing for their network connectivity.
About shinken monitoring framework shinken is an open source monitoring framework based on nagios core. Nagios is a great it infrastructure monitoring tool. Shinken is an open source monitoring framework based on nagios core which has been rewritten in python to enhance flexibility, scalability, and ease of use. The main documentation does have many references to nagios, but most of the configuration is. It is designed to be a dropin replacement and covers almost 100% of the original features plus adds additional enhancements for large installations and increased usability. Whats the difference between shinken monitoring framework. D shinken send events to glpi mysql database d a system cron script updates rrdtool files with these events and generatesupdates the graphs user can see events in glpi or via an application on his android smartphone. It features better ocsng integration, better ldap integration, multientities management, new generic rules engine, and new plugins csv file injection, plugin to synchronize ocs and glpi, pdf export, and so on. Shinken is designed to run under all operating systems where python runs.
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