Troubleshooting Centreon graphs

Symptom: Centreon stopped graphing performance data completely. There are quite a large number of reasons why this would happen, in fact a quick google search will come up with some very good articles, the few which I found useful were: http://en.doc.centreon.com/Setup:Graphs#Perfdata_activation_in_Nagios http://en.doc.centreon.com/Troubleshooting:Graphs http://felipeferreira.net/?p=1019 However, alas none of the points mentioned in the above articles worked … Continue reading Troubleshooting Centreon graphs

Sending nagios / centreon notifications via IRC

Lately we needed to find a convenient method of notifying service desk operators of centreon notifications. Email was not a good option since operatives tended to simply delete the messages. Besides, we wantede something a bit more realtime. In the end, I decided on using IRC. I went with IRC rather than jabber due to … Continue reading Sending nagios / centreon notifications via IRC