Use Shinken with PNP4Nagios

PNP4Nagios

Install PNP4Nagios automatically

You can use the Shinken install script to install everything automatically (if your distro is supported):

./install -a pnp4nagios

By default PNP4Nagios is installed in ‘’/usr/local/pnp4nagios’‘. If you prefer another location, edit ‘’PNPPREFIX’’ in ‘’install.d/shinken.conf’‘.

Install PNP4Nagios manually

See PHP4Nagios installation documentation.

In a nutshell:

./configure --with-nagios-user=shinken --with-nagios-group=shinken
make all

make fullinstall

Don’t forget to make PNP4Nagios’ npcd daemon to start at boot, and launch it:

chkconfig --add npcd # On RedHat-like
update-rc.d npcd defaults # On Debian-like

/etc/init.d/npcd start

Configure npcdmod

The module npcdmod is in charge to export performance data from Shinken to PNP.

define module{
module_name       NPCDMOD
module_type       npcdmod
config_file       <PATH_TO_NPCD.CFG>

}

Don’t forget to replace “<PATH_TO_NPCD.CFG>” with your own value; By default something like ‘’/usr/local/pnp4nagios/etc/npcd.cfg’‘.

Enable it

Edit ‘’/etc/shinken/shinken-specific.cfg’’ and find the object Broker to add above defined “NPCDMOD” to its modules line:

define broker{
     broker_name      broker-1
[...]
modules          Simple-log,NPCDMOD

}

Edit ‘’/etc/shinken/shinken-specific.cfg’’ and find the object WebUI to add above defined “PNP_UI” to its modules line:

define broker{
     module_name      WebUI
[...]
modules          Apache_passwd,ActiveDir_UI,Cfg_password,PNP_UI

}

Then restart broker :

# /etc/init.d/shinken-broker restart</code>

Share users with Thruk

Edit ‘’/etc/httpd/conf.d/pnp4nagios.conf’’ (RedHat path) and replace AuthName and AuthUserFile with: <code> AuthName “Thruk Monitoring” AuthUserFile /etc/thruk/htpasswd

Then restart Apache:

service httpd restart

Set the action_url option

In order to get the graphs displayed in Thruk, you need to set the action_url option in host and service definitions, and it must include the string “/pnp4nagios/” (Thruk doc).

If you want the link and the graph for all hosts and services, you could set the option directly in the default templates, in ‘’templates.cfg’‘:

define host{
      name                            generic-host
[...]
      process_perf_data               1
[...]
      #action_url                     http://<PNP4NAGIOS_HOST>/pnp4nagios/graph?host=$HOSTNAME$
      # If not an absolute URI, it must be relative to /cgi-bin/thruk/, not /thruk/!
      action_url                      ../../pnp4nagios/graph?host=$HOSTNAME$
[...]
define service{
      name                            generic-service
[...]
      process_perf_data               1
[...]
#action_url                      http://<PNP4NAGIOS_HOST>/pnp4nagios/graph?host=$HOSTNAME$&srv=$SERVICEDESC$
# If not an absolute URI, it must be relative to /cgi-bin/thruk/, not /thruk/!
action_url                      ../../pnp4nagios/graph?host=$HOSTNAME$&srv=$SERVICEDESC$

Don’t forget to replace “<PNP4NAGIOS_HOST>” with the server IP/name running PNP4Nagios (Don’t replace $HOSTNAME$ and $SERVICEDESC$!)

Make sure to also have process_perf_data set to 1 for both hosts and services.

Enjoy it

Restart shinken-arbiter and you are done.

/etc/init.d/shinken-arbiter restart</code>
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