How to install Shinken - Server Monitoring Framework in Ubuntu

Edit the webui.cfg file as follows to enable authentication modules and SQLite database for the new user interface.

shinken@linuxhelp:/home/user1$ nano /etc/shinken/modules/webui.cfg 
add auth-cfg-password,SQLitedb to the modules line
&hellip .
modules auth-cfg-password,SQLitedb
&hellip .

Save the file and restart shinken service by running the following command.

shinken@linuxhelp:/home/user1$ service shinken restart 
Restarting scheduler
...done.
Restarting poller
...done.
Restarting reactionner
...done.
Restarting broker
...done.
Restarting receiver
...done.
Restarting arbiter
Doing config check
...done.
...done.

Edit the following file and change the default admin user password.

shinken@linuxhelp:/home/user1$ nano /etc/shinken/contacts/admin.cfg 
# This is a default admin
# CHANGE ITS PASSWORD!
define contact{
use generic-contact
contact_name admin #admin username
email shinken@localhost
pager 0600000000   contact phone number
password admin #admin password
is_admin 1
expert 1
}

Save that file and restart shinken service.

Run the following command to download and install shinken plugins.

root@linuxhelp:/home/user1# wget --no-check-certificate https://www.monitoring-plugins.org/download/monitoring-plugins-2.1.2.tar.gz 
--2016-09-16 05:18:30-- https://www.monitoring-plugins.org/download/monitoring-plugins-2.1.2.tar.gz
&hellip 
&hellip 
2016-09-16 05:18:37 (445 KB/s) - ‘ monitoring-plugins-2.1.2.tar.gz’  saved [2613060/2613060]
root@linuxhelp:/home/user1# tar -xvf monitoring-plugins-2.1.2.tar.gz
monitoring-plugins-2.1.2/plugins/check_dns.c
monitoring-plugins-2.1.2/plugins/check_dummy.c
monitoring-plugins-2.1.2/plugins/check_fping.c
&hellip 
&hellip 
monitoring-plugins-2.1.2/po/stamp-po
monitoring-plugins-2.1.2/po/ChangeLog
monitoring-plugins-2.1.2/po/LINGUAS
monitoring-plugins-2.1.2/release

Now, install the plugins using following command.

root@linuxhelp:/home/user1# cd monitoring-plugins-2.1.2
root@linuxhelp:/home/user1/monitoring-plugins-2.1.2# ./configure --with-nagios-user=shinken --with-nagios-group=shinken --enable-libtap --enable-extra-opts --enable-perl-modules --libexecdir=/usr/lib/nagios/plugins 
execdir=/usr/lib/nagios/plugins
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for a thread-safe mkdir &ndash p
&hellip 
&hellip 
--with-cgiurl: /nagios/cgi-bin
--with-trusted-path: /usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
--enable-libtap: yes

root@linuxhelp:/home/user1/monitoring-plugins-2.1.2# make install 
cp lib/Test/Builder.pm blib/lib/Test/Builder.pm
cp lib/Test/More.pm blib/lib/Test/More.pm
Manifying blib/man3/Test::More.3pm
&hellip 
&hellip 
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `install-data-am' .
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/user1/monitoring-plugins-2.1.2' 
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/user1/monitoring-plugins-2.1.2' 

Restart shinken service.

root@linuxhelp:/home/user1/monitoring-plugins-2.1.2# service shinken restart 
Restarting scheduler
...done.
Restarting poller
...done.
Restarting reactionner
...done.
Restarting broker
...done.
Restarting receiver
...done.
Restarting arbiter
Doing config check
...done.
...done.