Introduction
This chapter describes how to install your Centreon monitoring platform.
Compatibility
Centreon web interface
Architectures
If you are monitoring a small number of hosts and services, a central server is enough. However, to monitor a large number of hosts and services, you will need to distribute the load over multiple servers.
Inside Centreon
Here are the bricks that make Centreon work. To find out on which port each brick communicates, see the Tables of network flows.
Prerequisites
This topic gives you broad guidelines to determine the size of your platform.
Technical information
Tables of network flows
Download
Open Source software supplied by Centreon is generally available in 3 formats:
Installation of a Central server
3 items
Web And Post Installation
Web installation
Installation of a Poller
2 items
Installation of a Remote server
2 items
Configuring monitoring servers
5 items
Offline installation
To be able to install Centreon on servers with no internet access, create a local copy of the Centreon repository on a server that has an internet access, and then make your offline Centreon servers point to it.