Welcome to Alignak’s documentation!

Contents:

• Introduction
  • About Alignak
• Installation
  • Installation with DEB
  • Installation with RPM
  • Installation from source
  • What the installation does?
• How does it work
  • Daemons and how they work together
  • Running Alignak
  • Single node
  • High availability
  • Load balancing
• Alignak framework configuration
  • Core configuration
  • Modules
  • SSL certificate
  • Default configuration
  • Main configuration file (alignak.cfg) options
• Monitored objects configuration
  • Monitored objects
  • Objects explained
  • Objects definition
  • Objects inheritance
  • Time-Saving tricks for objects definition
  • Custom Object Variables
• Extending Alignak
  • Updating default configuration
  • Installing checks
  • Alignak backend
  • Alignak modules
  • Alignak WebUI
• Monitoring features
  • Services checks
  • Hosts checks
  • Alignak checks logic
  • Determining state and reachability of network hosts
  • Notifications
  • Scheduled downtime
  • Host / service state Flapping detection
  • Defining advanced service dependencies
  • Event Handlers
  • Macros
  • External Commands
• Alignak features
  • Cached Checks
  • Realms
  • Monitoring a DMZ
  • Business rules
  • Notifications and escalations
  • Time period modulations
• Alignak statistics
  • Statistics parameters
  • Alignak Statistics
• How to contribute
  • Useful links
  • Getting Help and Ways to Contribute
  • Alignak modules and checks packages
• Annexes
  • Standard Macros in Alignak
  • External Commands list
  • Host Definition

Indices and tables

• Index
• Module Index
• Search Page