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Version: 22.04

Smart Poller Configuration

Poller configuration​

To attach a Smart Poller to a Central Management, please follow these instructions:

  1. go to Configuration -> Pollers -> Pollers

Poller configuration

  1. Click on Poller1 Poller1
  2. Rename Poller1 with a new name, according to your internal naming convention
  3. Enter the IP address of the Smart Poller

Change IP address

  1. Save this configuration by clicking Save at the top right corner

Save

Broker configuration​

  1. go to Configuration -> Pollers -> Broker configuration

Brocker configuration

  1. Click on Poller1 Poller1
  2. In the General tab rename Poller1 with a new name, according to your internal naming convention
  3. Set the field "Event queue max size" to 250000

Event queue

  1. Select Output tab and enter the Central Manager IP "Host to connect to" filed

Host to connect to

  1. Save this configuration by clicking Save at the top right corner

Save

Engine configuration​

  1. go to Configuration -> Pollers -> Engine configuration

Engine configuration

  1. Click on Poller1 Poller1

  2. In Files tab configuration Name: replace "Poller1" with a new poller name, as per your naming convention

Rename

  1. Go to Data tab and click on +Add a new entry

Add data entry

  1. Enter these two brocker directive:

Add data entry empty

1 - */usr/lib64/centreon-engine/externalcmd.so*

2 - */usr/lib64/nagios/cbmod.so /etc/centreon-broker/poller-module.json*

Add data entry directive

Pollers restart​

  1. Go to Configuration -> Pollers -> Pollers

Poller

  1. Select the Smart Poller that is being configured

Select Poller

  1. Click on Export configuration

Export configuration 1

  1. Select the first 4 options (at left) , then select Method -> Restart in the drop down menu

Export configuration 2

Mandatory

The following steps are mandatory

  1. Log on to the Central Management (SSH) do a sudo bash and enter the password

  2. Launch the following commands:

    1 - scripts

    2 - cd i-vertix/

    3 - ./sync_poller.sh

  3. In case the system asks for a yes/no confirmation answer yes, the CLI will show as many "ok" as the number of Pollers that are being synchronized

info

Central Manager performs such a synchronization every 4 hours

  1. Final check, select: Configuration -> Pollers -> Pollers

Configuration

Check the configuration is like the one shown in the picture.

Final check