Centreon Infra Monitoring

The upcoming major release of Centreon Infra Monitoring (CIM) 26.10 LTS will mark a key milestone in the modernization of our software architecture. To ensure optimal performance, enhanced security, and long-term stability, this new version will extend its compatibility to next-generation operating systems. Users will be able to deploy CIM 26.10 on Enterprise Linux distributions (RHEL, AlmaLinux, Oracle Linux) versions 9 and 10, as well as the upcoming Debian 13 major release. However, this technological transition requires strategic choices to maintain our quality standards. Consequently, official support for Debian 12 and Enterprise Linux 8 (EL8) will be discontinued with this release. These older operating systems no longer align with the 3-year lifecycle inherent to our Long Term Support (LTS) versions. We invite our users to start planning their infrastructure upgrades to the targeted platforms now, ensuring a smooth transition and full enjoyment of the innovations in CIM 26.10 LT

We would like to inform you of an important change regarding our network discovery plugin. Due to the licensing terms associated with NMAP and the end of Centreon's distribution rights for this binary, we will be required to remove the NMAP dependency currently bundled within our Centreon Plugin. While this decision affects current behavior, it is necessary to ensure legal compliance and the long-term sustainability of our solution.This change will take effect with the next Monitoring Connectors release scheduled for June. If you are using the NMAP-based discovery feature, it will no longer work after this update without action on your part (related job in error). To continue using it, you will need to manually install the NMAP package directly on your pollers. This operation remains straightforward and well-documented — NMAP is available in the standard repositories of most Linux distributions.We will support this transition with an update to our official documentation, including inst

Hello Watchers!At Centreon, we are constantly exploring new ways to make your IT operations smoother and more insightful. Today, we’re looking into a strategic topic and we’d love to get your thoughts: The convergence of Monitoring and Cybersecurity.Since Centreon already monitors your assets (OS, web servers, databases, networking gear) and often knows their versions, we are considering an integration that crosses this data with real-time CVE (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures) databases.The vision: A new security bulletin is released, and Centreon immediately flags the 15 servers in your infrastructure that are at risk—without you needing to trigger a manual scan.Before we dive deeper into this feature, we want to hear about your current reality:How do you manage vulnerabilities today? Do you use dedicated tools or is it a more manual process? Are you satisfied with your current setup? Do you find these solutions too complex, too disconnected from your daily ops, or do they perfec

Reminder: Centreon Version 24.04 End of Life (EOL)As per the Centreon product lifecycle, we remind all users that Centreon Infra Monitoring version 24.04 is no longer supported. It is essential to ensure the security and up-to-dateness of your infrastructure by upgrading to a compatible version.If your platform is currently on version 24.04, it is highly recommended to upgrade to a newer version to continue receiving security updates and support. The upgrade process is thoroughly documented and can be accessed here.Thank you for your prompt attention to this important matter and for your continued support in keeping your systems secure. Stay ahead of potential threats by subscribing to the Security Bulletin section. You’ll receive instant notifications whenever a new bulletin is published, ensuring your infrastructure remains secure and up to date. 

Hello everyone, As part of our project to update our dedicated VMware connectors, we are deploying the foundation of the VMware 8 ESX monitoring connector via REST API this month. This connector is a lightweight version, as it only includes CPU, memory, power and host discovery modes. We have already planned to enhance this connector in the coming months with new modes. It is marked as experimental because, at this stage, we still need to verify its functionality with numerous metrics (as may be the case in certain production environments). Feel free to share your feedback on this and more generally on this connector here. We will keep you informed of progress on this subject. 

Dear Watchers,It had been asked for a while, we released it last December: a SNMP version 3 template is provided for Linux in our Monitoring Connectors. The documentation can be found there.I invite you to tell us here as a reply to this post, if you have feedback to give us about it.Does it fit your needs? Is it easy enough to use? Is the documentation clear?Any feedback will be great!Once we judge that the template is satisfying enough given your feedback, we’ll merge it into the Linux SNMP monitoring connector and apply the same method with other connectors. 

[Update 09/30/24] This update confirms that MAP Legacy will be retired with 24.10 This is an announcement that Centreon will retire Centreon MAP Legacy starting next version 24.10. The diagramming and mapping functionality referred to as Centreon MAP is currently shipped in two flavors:MAP Legacy which relies on a client application running on a desktop to create/edit maps MAP Web, a web client fully embedded into the Centreon user interfaceThe following only relates to Centreon on-premise installations as Centreon Cloud already runs MAP Web. Given the change in technology and the migration necessary to move from MAP Legacy to MAP Web, Centreon has been continuing full support of MAP Legacy until now.With hundreds of production platforms now running MAP Web, we believe it is time to consider deprecating MAP Legacy. Centreon will end support of MAP Legacy with the next major version of Centreon: 24.10.MAP Legacy will continue being shipped and supported on 23.04, 23.10 and 24.04 accordi

Hello Dashboards users! We are pleased to announce the release of Centreon Cloud, June 2024!New features and enhancements are now available for Cloud users, let's take a look at what's new...General AvailabilityNo more Beta mention. Centreon Dashboards are now generally available for Cloud users.Two new widgetsStatus ChartThis widget displays the distribution of current statuses on selected resources, as a chart.Business Activity DiagramThis widget displays graphically a business activity hierarchy of KPIs and lets you navigate through it.Duplicate featureYou can now duplicate a dashboard. From the More actions button, click Duplicate to make a copy of the dashboard. EnhancementsMany optimization actions consisted in improving the look and feel of existing widgets, in particular graph legends and tooltips. Here are some other enhancements implemented in this version:Status Grid: condensed viewIn addition to the standard view, you can also select the condensed view. It provides a synthe

Hello everyone,We started working on MQTT and more specifically Mosquitto with the aim of making a new monitoring connector for it. We already have some ideas but we would like to know if any of you are already using Mosquitto and if so for what purpose do you use it? But also your wishes regarding the monitoring of it.

Dear Watchers,As I said here, we experimented a new SNMP version 3 template for Linux.We are planning to add similar SNMP version 3 templates to other monitoring connectors to make it easier to use SNMP v3 (I agree it's not ideal to use the $_SERVICEEXTRAOPTION$ macro for that) in more contexts.What I'm proposing you here is to answer to my post by giving:The name of the monitoring connector or the host template you'd like to see support SNMP v3 macros. The desired security levels (noAuthNoPriv, authNoPriv, authPriv).Then we'll prioritize the posts that will receive the highest number of "thumbs up" to deliver new templates in the monitoring connectors.Can’t wait for your suggestions!PS: If what you want is a template that do not exist yet as a monitoring connector, then please use the ideas section!PPS: Please post only one suggestion per post 🙏🏻