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Modbus

Prerequisites​

This chapter describes the prerequisites installation needed by plugins to run.

Centreon Plugin​

Install this plugin on each needed poller:

yum install centreon-plugin-Applications-Protocol-Modbus

Remote server​

The remote server must have a Modbus service running and available.

Centreon Configuration​

Create a host using the appropriate template​

Go to Configuration > Hosts and click Add. Then, fill the form as shown by the following table:

FieldValue
Host nameName of the host
AliasHost description
IPHost IP Address
Monitored fromMonitoring Poller to use
Host Multiple TemplatesApp-Protocol-Modbus-custom

Click on the Save button.

After that, you can add service linked with template App-Protocol-Modbus-Numeric-Value-Generic. To fill the macro CONFIG, read Modbus config