howto: distributed monitoring Centreon 2 / remote pollers

[uncleblues]

Hi all,

Because of little documentation on this subject, I wrote the very short howto below based on code reading and some hard time to get it working.

Best,
Jan

Setting up remote pollers with Centreon2/Nagios3
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Remote pollers only seem to be supported from version Centreon 2 beta 5.

1. Install Nagios on remote poller (set it up similar to the principal poller)
2. Install NDOutils on remote poller
3. Set up public key authentication from principal to remoter poller for the nagios owner
4. Set up a new poller for the remote poller in Centreon
5. Set up the NDO module config for the remote poller in Centreon
6. Set up the nagios.cfg for the remote poller in Centreon
7. Connect existing or new hosts and services to the new poller in Centreon
8. Generate the config for the remote poller via Centreon

NDOutils do not give a lot information on why things just won't work so make sure NDOutils are compiled with mysql support - review the config.log carefully. If NDO2DB is working, you should see a mysql session for the configured user on the configured database.

The procedures to restart, reload, ... nagios as well as the transfer of configs to remote pollers are called via a command file (/var/lib/centreon/centcore.cmd). Make sure the both the Apache and Centcore owner can modify this command file.

After the hassle, it is worth it :)

Cheers,
Jan Verhaert

[ryker]

Thank you for posting this. You should really put this on the wiki as well, if you haven't already done that.

Regards,
John

[fatmcgav]

Hi there,

further to this, when configuring NDO, do I need a MySQL instance on the remote poller? Or can i just configure it to use the MySQL instance on the Centreon server?

Cheers
Gavin

[Ronan_]

You must use the mysql instance on the centreon server (could be elsewhere, but must be the one used by centreon).

Hava a look there : http://en.doc.centreon.com/DistributedArchitecture

[fatmcgav]

You must use the mysql instance on the centreon server (could be elsewhere, but must be the one used by centreon).

Hava a look there : http://en.doc.centreon.com/DistributedArchitecture

Ok, cheers for confirming...

I found that doc, but it wasn't specific in stating that though, so just thought i'd ask...

Cheers again

Gav

[fatmcgav]

hi there,

I'm still having issues with Distributed Monitoring...

Details here: http://forum.centreon.com/showthread.php?t=6556

Can anybody help?

Cheers
Gavin

[Mr. Potato Head]

How are notifications from the remote pollers handled? Is the remote poller sending the e-mail or central server?

I ask as I have setup the remote poller but am not receiving a notification when a host is unavailable on the poller?