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Version: 23.10

Communications

Communication modes​

Even though Gorgone is being installed on Pollers and Remote Servers, it is allowed to communicate with them (from the Central server, or between a Remote Server and a Poller) using the SSH protocol.

Although SSH-type communication is allowed, it must be used for transitioning from older platforms that were using Centcore to a full-ZMQ platform.

Pollers or Remote Servers not using ZMQ as the communication protocol between Central's Gorgone and theirs will not benefit from all the features of Centreon and its extensions.

Communication modes are listed below:

Without Remote Server​

CommunicationsAllowed actions
Central <-- ZMQ --> PollerMonitoring actions*, Engine/Broker statistics collection, Host Discovery

* Monitoring actions are all actions provided by Centreon UI, like downtime, acknowledgements, etc., and configuration export.

With Remote Server​

CommunicationsAllowed actions
Central <-- ZMQ --> Remote <-- ZMQ --> PollerMonitoring actions*, Engine/Broker statistics collection, Host Discovery

* Monitoring actions are all actions provided by Centreon UI, like downtime, acknowledgements, etc., and configuration export.

Change communication from SSH to ZMQ​

Select communication type​

From Configuration > Pollers menu, edit the Poller configuration, and select ZMQ as Gorgone connection protocol.

Define the suitable port (port 5556 is recommended).

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Click Save.

Display Gorgone configuration​

From the poller list, click the Display Gorgone configuration action icon on the line corresponding to your Poller image

A popin will show the configuration to copy into the Poller terminal. Click Copy to clipboard.

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Paste the content of the clipboard directly into the Poller terminal as it contains the following content, and will fill the right file:

cat <<EOF > /etc/centreon-gorgone/config.d/40-gorgoned.yaml
name: gorgoned-My Poller
description: Configuration for poller My Poller
gorgone:
gorgonecore:
id: 2
external_com_type: tcp
external_com_path: "*:5556"
authorized_clients:
- key: Np1wWwpbFD2I0MdeHWRlFx51FmlYkDRZy9JTFxkrDPI
privkey: "/var/lib/centreon-gorgone/.keys/rsakey.priv.pem"
pubkey: "/var/lib/centreon-gorgone/.keys/rsakey.pub.pem"
modules:
- name: action
package: gorgone::modules::core::action::hooks
enable: true

- name: engine
package: gorgone::modules::centreon::engine::hooks
enable: true
command_file: "/var/lib/centreon-engine/rw/centengine.cmd"

EOF

Hit the enter key for the command to be applied.

You can copy the configuration in a custom file by copying the content from the popin.

Start Gorgone daemon​

From the Poller, run the following command to start the Gorgone service:

systemctl start gorgoned

Make sure it is started by running the following command:

systemctl status gorgoned

The result should be as follows:

● gorgoned.service - Centreon Gorgone
Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/gorgoned.service; disabled; vendor preset: disabled)
Active: active (running) since Mon 2020-03-24 19:45:00 CET; 20h ago
Main PID: 28583 (perl)
CGroup: /system.slice/gorgoned.service
β”œβ”€28583 /usr/bin/perl /usr/bin/gorgoned --config=/etc/centreon-gorgone/config.yaml --logfile=/var/log/centreon-gorgone/gorgoned.log --severity=info
β”œβ”€28596 gorgone-dbcleaner
β”œβ”€28597 gorgone-engine
└─28598 gorgone-action

Mar 24 19:45:00 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: Started Centreon Gorgone.

Finally, enable the automatic startup of the service with the command:

systemctl enable gorgoned

If there is a Remote Server between the Central and this Poller, make sure to export the configuration of the Remote Server.

From the poller list, select the remote server and click Export configuration.

Then check the first three boxes and click Export.

Finally, restart the Gorgone daemon of this Remote Server by running the following command:

systemctl restart gorgoned

To force the Central's Gorgone daemon to change the communication type, restart it with the following command from the Central server:

systemctl restart gorgoned