Manually configuring a poller

Configuring the server

Once the installation is complete, you must integrate this remote poller into the Centreon configuration.

1. Go into the menu: Configuration > Pollers.

2. Duplicate the central server and edit it.

3. Change the following settings, and save:

• Change the name of Poller Name.

• Enter the IP address of the poller in the IP Address field.

• Enable the poller by clicking on Enabled in the Status field.

Note

If your poller is attached to a Remote Server, please choose this one in the Attach to Remote Server list.

Note

If your poller is attached to a Remote Server, but you prefer to send externals commands and configuration directly from the Central server to this poller, please disable the Use the Remote Server as a proxy for SSH option.

1. Go to the Configuration > Pollers > Engine configuration menu.

2. Select your last added configuration.

3. Change the following settings, and save:

• In the Files tab:

  • Modify Configuration Name.

  • Check that Linked poller is the previously created poller.

  • Change if necessary Timezone / Location.

• In the Data tab - Multiple Broker Module fields check / add the following entries:

  /usr/lib64/centreon-engine/externalcmd.so
  
  /usr/lib64/nagios/cbmod.so /etc/centreon-broker/poller-module.xml
  

Centreon Broker configuration

You must generate a configuration file for Centreon Broker:

1. Go into the menu: Configuration > Pollers > Broker configuration.

2. click on Add.

• In the General tab:

  • Select the Requester.

  • Set Name of the configuration.

  • Set Config file name that must be exactly the same as the one defined in Centreon Engine configuration (for example, poller-module.xml).

  • Check the value No for the Link to cbd service option.

• In the Output tab:

  • Add a new TCP - IPv4 output.

  • Set the Name.

  • Set the distant TCP port, by default to 5669.

  • Set the IP address of the Central server (Host to connect to).

• Save the configuration.