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Welcome to Shinken Enterprise!

This guide will provide you all the keys to understand, preprare configure and manage you monitoric strategy with shinken entreprise.your monitoring strategy with Shinken Entreprise.

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Let's do it step by step.

Architecture

In order to install Shinken Enterprise, 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

Once you have installed Shinken Enterprise, this chapter explains:

• all concepts of the monitoring definition (normal and advanced)
  

Configuration UI

This user guide explains:

• how to apply the monitoring logic to your infrastructure

Command line tools

Describes available commands to manage Shinken Enterprise:

• how to check the health of your installation
• how to backup and restore your Shinken Enterprise data

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

• 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.