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Amazon CloudWatch

Prerequisites​

Centreon Plugin​

Install this plugin on each needed poller:

yum install centreon-plugin-Cloud-Aws-Cloudwatch-Api

To use it, you can either install 'awscli' (AWS Command Line Interface) or 'paws' (Perl AWS SDK).

Install awscli​

On CentOS, install with following commands:

yum install -y epel-release
# yum install -y python-pip
# pip install awscli
# yum remove -y epel-release

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 TemplatesCloud-Aws-Api

Click on the Save button.