Goal of this source

Connecting Shinken Enterprise to Active Directory will allow you to automatically detect your windows servers.

Configure this source

You can enable it by editing the configuration file /etc/shinken/modules/activ-dir-import.cfg

All you need is to set the following parameters:

• url                        ldap://YOURDCFQDN/
• base                     dc=YOUR,dc=DOMAIN,dc=com
• hosts_base           OU=DataCenter Servers,dc=YOUR,dc=DOMAIN,dc=com
• contacts_base      dc=YOUR,dc=DOMAIN,dc=com
• username             SHINKEN@YOURDOMAIN.com
• password             PASSWORD

This connection information will allow the source to connect to your Active Directory. It only needs a « read only » account.

Note: Shinken Enterprise’s main purpose is monitoring servers, therefore we suggest you not load all your Active Directory elements.

This source also includes other parameters that will allow you to automatically “tag” your servers based on your active directory information:

• hosts_tag: each loaded hosts will have at least this tag
• contacts_tag: each loaded contacts will have at least this tag

Contacts to load can be easily filtered with the contacts_filters parameter.

Tagging hosts based on their OU (Organization Unit) is possible. This is done with the hosts_tag_* parameters.

• For example, if you want to add the exchange tag to all the servers which are below the OU=Email Collaboration Servers,OU=DataCenter Servers,DC=YOUR,dc=DOMAIN,dc=com OU,
  
  you can set this parameter:
  hosts_tag_exchange  OU=Email Collaboration Servers,OU=DataCenter Servers,DC=YOUR,dc=DOMAIN,dc=com

Setting up ldap object matching with the hosts_match_* parameters is also possible.

• For example, if you want to add the enterprise tag to all the ldap object that match the string Enterprise in their operatingSystem property,
  
  you only need to setup:
  hosts_match_operatingSystem_enterprise        Enterprise

This also works with groups.

For example, if you want to add the domain-admins tag to the users that are in the CN=Domain Admins,CN=Users,DC=YOUR,dc=DOMAIN,dc=com OU

setup:

contacts_match_memberOf_domain-admins         CN=Domain Admins,CN=Users,DC=YOUR,dc=DOMAIN,dc=com