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Technical documentation for Centreon monitoring connectors and plugin packs. This includes installation procedures, dependencies, and configuration assets—such as host and service templates and discovery rules—for a wide range of network hardware including Cisco, Dell, Fortinet, HPE, Huawei, Juniper, and Nokia devices using SNMP, NETCONF, and REST APIs.

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  1. Overview of Windows Telegraf Agent monitoring connector

    The Windows Telegraf Agent connector uses Telegraf (an observability tool implementing the OpenTelemetry protocol) to monitor Windows hosts.

    Important: Proof of Concept Limitations This connector is currently a proof of concept and is not recommended for production use due to:

    • The Telegraf service must be restarted whenever the configuration changes.
    • Informational output messages for hosts or services cannot be displayed due to OpenTelemetry protocol limitations.

  2. Overview of User Journeys in Centreon Experience Monitoring

    User Journeys allow you to configure a probe to regularly navigate a website following a pre-established path. This simulates real user behavior to measure web performance indicators and availability. User Journeys are a foundational feature that other tools, such as Digital Sobriety Score and Load Tests, depend on to function.

    Key capabilities include:

    • Availability Monitoring: Calculate the availability rate of a specific user path (e.g., the percentage of time a purchase flow is functional).
    • Performance Measurement: Record page load times using metrics such as Time To First Byte (TTFB), Speed Index, full page load time, and Google Core Web Vitals.
    • User Simulation: Configure probes to imitate different users by specifying the device type (computer vs. phone) and the browser used.
    • Alerting: Notify site managers via email, SMS, or other notifications when a site malfunction is detected, including a detailed incident report.
    • Optimization Analysis: Identify specific areas for improvement, such as optimizing images or reducing JavaScript file sizes to increase page speed.

  3. Overview of Report Publication Modes

    Publication rules allow reports (PDF, CSV, etc.) to be automatically sent to specific users or servers every time a job finishes running. The available publication modes are:

    • CIFS: Copies reports to a remote file share using CIFS/SMB (Samba v2).
    • FTP: Copies reports to a remote server via FTP.
    • SFTP: Copies reports to a remote server via SFTP.
    • Local: Copies reports to a local directory on the MBI server.
    • SMTP: Sends reports via email.

  4. Overview of Centreon Hub and Organizations

    Centreon Hub is a central module used to access all Centreon applications. It allows administrators to manage organizations, user accounts, user groups, and login methods.

    An Organization represents a scope of resources to be monitored (e.g., 'Europe' or 'Asia'). Organizations are independent; each has its own set of applications, including its own Centreon Cloud platform.

  5. Overview of Centreon HA Cluster Architecture

    A Centreon HA cluster consists of two independent 2-node clusters (a central cluster and a database cluster) and a shared quorum device. The architecture ensures that if an active node fails, a passive node takes over.

    Cluster Members:

    • 2 Centreon Central Servers: One active and one passive. They manage pollers but do not perform the monitoring themselves. Data is synchronized between them.
    • 2 Database Nodes: Remote, replicated databases (one active, one passive).
    • 1 Quorum Device: A mandatory server (which can be one of the pollers) used to decide which node is active to prevent split-brain scenarios.

    Network Components:

    • Central Virtual IP (VIP): Used by pollers to send collected data; it forwards traffic to the current active central node.
    • Database Virtual IP (VIP): Used by the active central node to send data to the current active database node.

  6. Overview of Centreon MAP

    Centreon MAP is a data presentation extension used to create and share synthetic real-time monitoring views of IT infrastructure, networks, applications, and services. It allows ITOM teams to visualize the availability of critical business applications to optimize the Mean Time to Restore Service (MTRS). Note that Centreon MAP requires a valid license key.

  7. Overview of Mail Open Tickets provider capabilities

    The Mail Open Tickets provider for Centreon (v24.10) allows the system to open incidents regarding monitoring alerts by sending emails via an SMTP server.

    Capabilities:

    • Open ticket: Supported
    • Close ticket (via email): Not supported
    • Handle custom fields: Not supported

  8. Overview of Centreon Business Activity Monitoring (BAM)

    Centreon Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) is an extension used to align IT operations with business goals by measuring real-time IT operating vitals based on ITIL practices. It allows ITSM and business operation teams to correlate monitored data with service performance and manage SLAs proactively. BAM uses a calculation engine based on Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to provide a real-time graphical representation of IT activities on a dedicated console.

  9. Overview of Centreon MAP for infrastructure visualization

    Centreon MAP is a web-interface solution used to create, customize, display, and share graphical representations of monitored infrastructure. The workflow consists of creating logical views using the MAP editor and then viewing them in view mode. Maps can be accessed in two locations within the interface: the 'Monitoring > Map' page (view mode) or the 'Home > Custom Views' page via a dedicated MAP widget.

  10. Overview of Centreon Knowledge Base

    The Knowledge Base module (available since version 2.8.0) allows administrators to associate a wiki with Centreon Web. It creates direct links between hosts, services, and specific technical procedures (wiki pages) to guide operators when alerts are raised. Procedures can be assigned directly to objects or to templates for scalable management.

  11. Overview of Centreon Monitoring Connectors

    Monitoring Connectors (formerly called Plugin Packs) are downloadable packages used to monitor IT infrastructure. They consist of two separate components that must both be installed:

    1. The Pack: Contains configuration templates (commands, host templates, and service templates) and sometimes discovery rules. These are installed via the Centreon web interface.
    2. The Plugin: The executable that runs monitoring commands from a poller. These are installed via the CLI or automatically.

  12. Overview of Centreon Business Activity Monitoring (BAM)

    Centreon Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) is an extension that provides service mapping capabilities to align IT operations with business goals based on ITIL practices. It uses a calculation engine based on Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to measure real-time IT operating vitals and correlate them to service performance, facilitating SLA management.

    Key terminology:

    • BA (Business Activity): A specific business activity being monitored.
    • BV (Business View): A logical grouping of multiple business activities.
    • KPI (Key Performance Indicator): The weighted indicator used within the BA calculation.