Overview¶
Centreon CLAPI aims to offer (almost) all the features that are available on the user interface in terms of configuration.
Features¶
Add/Delete/Update objects such as hosts, services, host templates, host groups, contacts etc…
Generate configuration files
Test configuration files
Move configuration files to monitoring pollers
Restart monitoring pollers
Import and export objects
Basic usage¶
All actions in Centreon CLAPI will require authentication, so your commands will always start like this:
# cd /usr/share/centreon/bin
# ./centreon -u admin -p centreon [...]
Obviously, the -u option is for the username and the -p option is for the password. The password can be in clear or the encrypted in the database.
Note
If your passwords are encoded with SHA1 in database (MD5 by default), use the -s option:
# ./centreon -u admin -p centreon -s [...]