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Overview

This page

provides, on the left, an action Menu, used to :

• Add a new Host
• For changes automaticaly detected
  
  • Show Hosts

• • detected 
  • Accept differencies on selected elements

On the top of the table, A tool bar let Administrators the ability to :

• Enable, Disable, Delete or Duplicate selected Hosts
• Filter List by Name
• Filter List by Template applied on Hosts

Create a new Host

Data

Data is used to show and create variables used by Shinken to perform checks.

Those values are also called Macros.

As shown on the picture, when creating a new host, no data are available, even if the new host inherit from Template.

Data are displayed in two sections :

• Local : data for this host only (custom data)
• From Templates : data inherited from one or more templates

Data from templates are seperated by template names.

This allow Administrators to see what and where data have been get.

Data are represented by a Key and a Value.

When data are local, both of them can be modified.

When data are inherited, only values can be modified.

This form is used to configure properties that define monitoring for the host itself.

Monitoring is defined by the following properties :

• Check Period
  • defines the period on which host will be checked
  • field is a list of values, corresponding to timeperiods defined in Time Periods
  • value is taken from templates if any, or default value is filled
• Check Command
  • defines the short name of the command used to check if the host is available
  • field is a list of choices, defined by the Commands configuration
  • value is taken from templates if any, or default value is filled
• Args
  • used to pass arguments to the Check Command
  • by default this value is empty
• Max Check Attemps
  • defines the number of failed check attempt before declaring the host as down
  • value is taken from templates if any, or default value is filled
• Check Interval
  • defines the number of minutes between two check of the host
  • value is taken from templates if any, or default value is filled
• Retry Interval
  • defines the number of minutes before scheduling a re-check if the last one returned a non-UP state.
  • value is taken from templates if any, or default value is filled
• Active Checks Enabled
  • defines if scheduled check will be enabled or not for this host
  • value is taken from templates if any, or default value is filled
• Passive Checks Enabled
  • defines if passive check will be enabled or not for this host
  • value is taken from templates if any, or default value is filled
• Maintenance Period
  • defines a reccuring downtime for the host. During the selected period, no notifications are sent
  • value is taken from the list of Time Periods
  • value is none per default, which means no downtime for the host

Modify a host

To modify properties of a host:

• first go on the Hosts page, from the Main menu,
• and then click on the host name you want to modify.

The form displayed is the same as the form used to create a new Host.
All fields are filled with Host properties.

• Once changes have been made, configuration of the Host must be saved
  by clicking the Validate button available on the left menu.
• Cancel button revert all changes to precedent configuration.

Delete a host

To delete a host, you can use the form of the host, or delete it directly from the list page.

From the Form page

First go to the Hosts page, from the Main menu,then click on the host name you want to delete.

Once in the page displaying the form, click on the Delete button available on the left menu.

A confirmation popup will be displayed.

From the main page

First go to the Hosts page, from the Main menu,

then click on the check box placed on the first column of the table.

Use the Action menu on the top to select Delete, and click to the Launch Button.

A confirmation popup will be displayed.

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Duplicate a host

Duplication operation is very useful when similar Hosts must be added.

To duplicate a host, first go on the Main page listing all hosts,

then select a host by clicking on the check box placed on the first column.

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Once selected, the host can be duplicated by selecting Duplicate in the select Action
of the tool bar.

Duplication is executed by clicking the Launch button.

The name of host duplicated is suffixed by "(copy)".

Using the Main page gives Administrators ability to Dublicate many Hosts at once.

Note: Duplicated Hosts are totaly detached and independant of the cloned Host.

No relation is made in the configuration.

Enable / Disable a Host

Disable operations help Administrators to temporarly exclude an element from the monitoring. It can be very helpfull to prepare a future configuration.

Enabling or Disabling Host can be made from the Host Configuration, or from the Main Hosts page.

 From the Host configuration

• First go to the Hosts page, from the Main menu,
• then click on the host name you want to enable/disable
  
  

Once in the page displaying the form, modify the Enabled property

• Enable by clicking on the true button.
• Disable by clicking on the false button
• But you can also Inherit from template .

From the Main page

First go to the Hosts page, from the Main

menu, then click on the check box placed on the first column of the table.

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Use the Action menu on the top to select Disable, and click to the Launch Button.

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In both cases, the result will be displayed in the table listing all Hosts.

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To Enable one or more Hosts, use the same procedure, by Choosing Enable.

Using the Main page gives Administrators ability to Disable or Enable many Hosts at once.

See and apply differences proposed by the Automatic detection modules

Differences are generated from the configuration daemon when an host is already validate in the configuration and

that the Automatic configuration modules (Sources and Taggers) did detect new properties (like custom data or new templates)

When an host have such a differences, a green square will be shown

on the "Differences" collumn.

Moving your mouse over the square lets you see all proposed differences.

Here the VMWare discovery module did find the JIRA host in the 172.18.206.51 ESX server,

and it proposes to add the vmware-vm template to this host.

And click on the button "Accept selected differences [ 1 ]".

The value in brackets depends on number of selected hosts containing differences.

By clicking on the button, you will accept the differences for all the selected hosts.

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