Using packages¶

Merethis provides RPM for its products through Centreon Entreprise Server (CES). Open source products are freely available from our repository.

These packages have been successfully tested with CentOS 5 and RedHat 5.

Prerequisites¶

In order to use RPM from the CES repository, you have to install the appropriate repo file. Run the following command as privileged user:

$ wget http://yum.centreon.com/standard/2.2/ces-standard.repo -O /etc/yum.repos.d/ces-standard.repo

The repo file is now installed.

In CES 2.2, there are two choise of basic configuration.

Configuration package name	Monitoring Engine	Broker module
centreon-base-config-centreon-engine	Centreon Engine	Centreon Broker
centreon-base-config-nagios	Nagios	Ndoutils

You must choose between this two templates.

This part is to install a central server.

Run the commands:

$ yum install centreon-base-config-centreon-engine centreon

Run the commands:

$ yum install centreon-base-config-nagios centreon

After this installation, you can connect to Centreon for finish installation. The steps of web installation is here.

This part is to install a poller server.

Run the commands:

$ yum install centreon-poller-centreon-engine

Run the commands:

$ yum install centreon-poller-nagios

The communication between a central server and a poller server is by SSH.

You must exchange ssh keys this hosts.

If you have not a ssh private on the central for user centreon:

$ su - centreon
$ ssh-keygen -t rsa

You copy this key into the poller:

$ ssh-copy-id centreon@your_poller_ip