Installing a plugin pack is a 4-step process:
- Accessing the Plugin Packs catalog.
- Installing the pack.
- Checking the monitoring procedure.
- Installing the plugin.
Accessing the Plugin Packs catalog
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If you have an online license, the Plugin Packs catalog is already available on your platform, on page Configuration > Plugin Packs.
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If you have an offline license:
- first, install the Plugins Pack repository (contact the Centreon support team for its address)
- then, install or update the Plugin Packs catalog from your Centreon Central server:
yum install centreon-pack-*or:
yum update centreon-pack-*
Please note that although this command is called
install, it only makes Plugin Packs available in the Centreon interface. It will not install the Plugin Packs themselves. Please follow the rest of the procedure.
Installing the pack
You now have access to the Plugin Packs catalog, on page Configuration > Plugin Packs:
To install a pack, hover over the icon and click on the +
You can also click on the Plugin Pack to display more details and click on the +
Once the pack is installed, it has a green outline and a green check mark.
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Managing dependencies
During installation, some objects in the pack may not be installed. These objects are often additional configuration objects and are not required to deploy the configuration templates provided by the pack.
Most of the time, it is necessary to update your Centreon platform and then reinstall your pack.
In the following example, the "autodiscover" object is a discovery rule for the "Centreon Auto Discovery" module, but this one is only available for Centreon in 18.10.x version:
Checking the monitoring procedure
Some Plugin Packs require extra configuration steps. Read the monitoring procedure for each installed pack to understand the contents of the pack and to find out about any prerequisites. Click on the i icon of each pack to access its documentation:
Installing the plugin
The monitoring procedure contains an Installation section that explains how to install the plugin (with an online or an offline license). Install the plugin on each poller that will execute the plugin checks.
The installation command looks like this:
yum install centreon-plugin-$PLUGIN-PACK$
Where $PLUGIN-PACK$ is the name of the pack. Example:
yum install centreon-plugin-Cloud-Aws-Ec2-Api
Bear in mind that the yum command is case-sensitive.
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