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Elements of a Centreon platform

According to your needs, your platform can consist of several elements: a central server, one or several remote servers, and one or several pollers.

  • If you are only monitoring a few resources, you will only need a central server.
  • If you are monitoring a large number of resources, spread the load across a distributed architecture.

Central server​

In Centreon, the central server is the main console where you monitor resources. The central server allows you to:

  • configure the monitoring of your whole infrastructure,
  • monitor resources
  • see what all your Centreon servers monitor (central server, remote servers and pollers), using its web interface.

Remote server​

A remote server is attached to a central server. Pollers can be attached to a remote server.

  • A remote server monitors resources. It has a monitoring engine.
  • It has a graphical interface, but no configuration menus.
  • The resources it monitors are displayed in its interface, and in the interface of the central server it is attached to.

Poller​

A poller can be attached to a remote server, or directly to a central server.

  • A Centreon poller monitors resources. It has a monitoring engine.
  • A poller has no graphical interface: the resources it monitors are displayed in the interface of the central server and of the remote server it is attached to.

Distributed architecture​

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See also Architectures.