Poller Definition

Description

The Poller object is a way to the Arbiter daemons to talk with a scheduler and give it hosts to manage. They are in charge of launching plugins as requested by schedulers. When the check is finished they return the result to the schedulers. There can be many pollers.

The Poller definition is optionnal. If no poller is defined, Shinken will “create” one for the user. There will be no high availability for it (no spare), and will use the default port in the server where the deamon is launched.

Definition Format

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 poller{  
poller_name poller_name
address dns name of ip address
port port
spare //[0/1]//
realm realm name
manage_sub_realms [0,1]
poller_tags poller_tags
modules modules
}  

Example Definition:

define poller{
     poller_name        Europe-poller
     address            node1.mydomain
     port               7771
     spare              0


     # Optional configurations
     manage_sub_realms  0
     poller_tags        DMZ, Another-DMZ
     modules            module1,module2
     realm              Europe
     min_workers         0   ; Starts with N processes (0 = 1 per CPU)
     max_workers         0   ; No more than N processes (0 = 1 per CPU)
     processes_by_worker 256 ; Each worker manages N checks
     polling_interval    1   ; Get jobs from schedulers each 1 minute
}

Variable Descriptions

poller_name

This variable is used to identify the short name of the poller which the data is associated with.

address

This directive is used to define the adress from where the main arbier can reach this poller. 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 7771.

spare

This variable is used to define if the poller 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 poller will be put. If none is selected, it will be assigned to the default one.

manage_sub_realms

This variable is used to define if the poller will take jobs from scheduler from the sub-realms of it’s realm. The default value is 0.

poller_tags

This variable is used to define the checks the poller can take. If no poller_tags is defined, poller will take all untagued checks. If at least one tag is defined, it will take only the checks that are also taggued like it.

By default, there is no poller_tag, so poller can take all untagued checks (default).

modules

This variable is used to define all modules that the scheduler will load.

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