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Description sommaire de Shinken enterprise

This guide will provide you all keys to understand, preprare and manage you monitoric strategy with shinken entreprise.

let's do it step by step

• Architecture: in order to install shinken, you need to understand
  Architecture: This chapter will describe
  • how is organized the Shinken Enterprise Engine,
    
  • how to manage your monitoring architecture from a simple network to a big distributed Architecture.
    
• Monitoring logic:
• UI Configuration
• Command line tools

IMPORTANT: Shinken entreprise don’t use a flat file for its configuration but Databases.

• once installed, this chapter will expose
  • all concepts of the monitoring definition (normal and advanced)
• UI Configuration: this user guide explains
  
  • you how to apply the monitoring logic to you infrastructure
    
• Command line tools: describes
  
  • available commands to survey and manage  Shinken Enterprise
• It imports all data from configured sources (Active directory, Shinken Framework or Nagios cfg file, …   ) and combined them in a database.
• It uses a 2 levels configuration system:
  • Pre-Production configuration database: the one where can be done modifications and which is used to the display the configuration interface. It allows adminstrators to modify the configuration, see potential problems without impacting the current IT supervision.
  • Production configuration database: the one used by the Shinken Enterprise engine.
  • Once administrator are satisfied by the Pre-Production configuration, he can copy (commit) it to the Production configuration.