The Basics

• Setting up a basic Shinken Configuration
  • Default Shinken configuration
  • Configure the Shinken Daemons
  • Daemon declaration in the global configuration
    • special parameters
      • module objects
    • Configuration example
    • Removing unused configurations
    • launch all daemons
  • What next
• Nagios/Shinken Plugins
  • Introduction
  • What Are Plugins?
  • Shinken integrated data acquisition modules
  • Plugins As An Abstraction Layer
  • What Plugins Are Available?
  • Obtaining Plugins
  • How Do I Use Plugin X?
  • Plugin API
• Understanding Macros and How They Work
  • Macros
  • Macro Substitution - How Macros Work
  • Example 1: Host Address Macro
  • Example 2: Command Argument Macros
  • On-Demand Macros
  • On-Demand Group Macros
  • Custom Variable Macros
  • Macro Cleansing
  • Macros as Environment Variables
  • Available Macros
• Standard Macros in Shinken
  • Macro Validity
  • Macro Availability Chart
  • Macro Descriptions
  • Notes
• Host Checks
  • Introduction
  • When Are Host Checks Performed?
  • Cached Host Checks
  • Dependencies and Checks
  • Parallelization of Host Checks
  • Host States
  • Host State Determination
  • Host State Changes
• Service Checks
  • Introduction
  • When Are Service Checks Performed?
  • Cached Service Checks
  • Dependencies and Checks
  • Parallelization of Service Checks
  • Service States
  • Service State Determination
  • Services State Changes
• Active Checks
  • Introduction
  • How Are Active Checks Performed?
  • When Are Active Checks Executed?
• Passive Checks
  • Introduction
  • Uses For Passive Checks
  • How Passive Checks Work
  • Enabling Passive Checks
  • Submitting Passive Service Check Results
  • Submitting Passive Host Check Results
  • Passive Checks and Host States
  • Submitting Passive Check Results From Remote Hosts
• State Types
  • Introduction
  • Service and Host Check Retries
  • Soft States
  • Hard States
  • Example
• Time Periods
  • Introduction
  • Precedence in Time Periods
  • How Time Periods Work With Host and Service Checks
  • How Time Periods Work With Contact Notifications
  • How Time Periods Work With Notification Escalations
  • How Time Periods Work With Dependencies
• Determining Status and Reachability of Network Hosts
  • Introduction
  • Example Network
  • Defining Parent/Child Relationships
  • Reachability Logic in Action
  • UNREACHABLE States and Notifications
• Notifications
  • Introduction
  • When Do Notifications Occur?
  • Who Gets Notified?
  • What Filters Must Be Passed In Order For Notifications To Be Sent?
  • Program-Wide Filter:
  • Service and Host Filters:
  • Contact Filters:
  • Notification Methods
  • Notification Type Macro
  • Helpful Resources
• Active data acquisition modules
  • Overview
  • SNMP data acquisition module
  • NRPE data acquisition module
  • Notes on community Packs
• Network dependencies
  • What are network dependencies ?
  • Example Network
  • Defining Parent/Child Relationships
  • Reachability Logic in Action
  • What about more than one parent for an host?
  • UNREACHABLE States and Notifications
  • What about notification about services of a down or unreachable hosts?
• Logical dependencies
  • Service Dependencies Overview
  • Defining simple advanced dependencies
  • Dependencies inheritance
  • And with the host down/unreachable logic?
  • Advanced dependencies
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