Configuring Shinken

• Configuration Overview
  • Introduction
  • Main Configuration File
  • Resource File(s)
  • Object Definition Files
• Main Configuration File Options
  • Config File Location and sample
  • Broker Modules
  • Arbiter, Receiver, Poller, Reactionner Modules
  • Path, users and log variables
    • Log File
    • Log Level
    • Human format for log timestamp
    • Object Configuration File
    • Object Configuration Directory
    • Resource File
    • Arbiter Daemon User
    • Arbiter Daemon user Group
    • Bypass security checks for the Arbiter daemon
    • Notifications Option
    • Log Rotation Method (Not fully implemented)
    • External Command Check Option
    • External Command File
    • Arbiter Lock File
    • State Retention Option (Not implemented)
    • State Retention File
    • Automatic State Retention Update Interval
  • Scheduling parameters
    • Service/Host Check Execution Option
    • Passive Service/Host Check Acceptance Option
    • Event Handler Option
    • Event Handler during downtimes
    • Syslog Logging Option
    • Notification Logging Option
    • Service/Host Check Retry Logging Option (Not implemented)
    • Event Handler Logging Option
    • Initial States Logging Option (Not implemented)
    • External Command Logging Option
    • Passive Check Logging Option (Not implemented)
    • Global Host/Service Event Handler Option (Not implemented)
    • Maximum Host/Service Check Spread
    • Timing Interval Length
  • Tuning and advanced parameters
  • Old CGI related parameter
  • Unused parameters
• Object Configuration Overview
  • What Are Objects?
  • Where Are Objects Defined?
  • How Are Objects Defined?
  • Objects Explained
    • Hosts
    • Host Groups
    • Services
    • Service Groups
    • Contacts
    • Contact Groups
    • Timeperiods
    • Commands
• Object Definitions
  • Introduction
  • Sample Configuration Files
  • Object Types
• Custom Object Variables
  • Introduction
  • Custom Variable Basics
  • Examples
  • Custom Variables As Macros
  • Custom Variables And Inheritance
• Main advanced configuration
  • Tuning and advanced parameters
  • Performance data parameters
    • Performance Data Processor Command Timeout
    • Performance Data Processing Option
    • Host/Service Performance Data Processing Command
    • Host/Service Performance Data File
    • Host Performance Data File Template
    • Service Performance Data File Template
    • Host/Service Performance Data File Mode
    • Host/Service Performance Data File Processing Interval (Unused)
    • Host/Service Performance Data File Processing Command (Unused)
  • Advanced scheduling parameters
    • Passive Host Checks Are SOFT Option (Not implemented)
    • Predictive Host/Service Dependency Checks Option (Unused)
    • Orphaned Host/Service Check Option
    • Max Plugins Output Length
    • Enable problem/impacts states change
    • Soft State Dependencies Option (Not implemented)
  • Performance tuning
    • Cached Host/Service Check Horizon
    • Large Installation Tweaks Option
    • Environment Macros Option
  • Flapping parameters
    • Flap Detection Option
    • Low Service/Host Flap Threshold
    • High Service/Host Flap Threshold
    • Flap History
  • Commands/checks timeout
    • Service/Host Check Timeout
    • Various commands Timeouts
  • Old Obsess Over commands
    • Obsess Over Services Option
    • Obsessive Compulsive Service Processor Command
    • Obsess Over Hosts Option
    • Obsessive Compulsive Host Processor Command
  • Freshness check
    • Host/Service Freshness Checking Option
    • Host/Service Freshness Check Interval
    • Additional Freshness Threshold Latency Option (Not implemented)
  • All the others :)
    • Date Format (Not implemented)
    • Timezone Option
    • Illegal Object Name Characters
    • Illegal Macro Output Characters
    • Regular Expression Matching Option (Not implemented)
    • True Regular Expression Matching Option (Not implemented)
    • Administrator Email Address (unused)
    • Administrator Pager (unused)