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mircea.mitu

Member

Registered: 2012-10-29

Posts: 6

Plugin monitoring - how it works

Hi,

I'm not very sure I understand how the monitoring plugin works, even after reading "How this solution works" from monitoring.pdf.

The doc says:

This is the description of the processes:
• [M] Technician installs a new server
• [DM] Installation of FusionInventory agent to have a complete inventory of this server
• [D] FusionInventory sends an inventory to GLPI
• [D] Plugin Monitoring set resources to this new server defined by rules (in components catalogs)
• [DM] Restart Shinken' Arbiter module to load new configuration
• [D] Shinken runs with new checks
• [D] Shinken send events to GLPI MySQL database
• [D] A system cron script updates RRDTOOL files with these events and generates/updates the graphs
• User can see events in GLPI or via an application on his Android smartphone
Conclusion: Adding a new device to be monitored is simple and doesn't require any human intervention.

It's not very clear what kind of checks can be performed on monitored hosts: active and/or passive checks? It can monitor hosts behind firewall (nat)? If yes, what should be installed on these hosts, besides fusioninventory-agent?

Best regards,
Mircea MITU

ddurieux

Plugins Dev

From: Propières, France

Registered: 2005-06-17

Posts: 7,521

Re: Plugin monitoring - how it works

You can try with NSCA for monitors behind NAT, but not have tested yet, so not sure it works nicely