Alignak features

Alignak has some rich features:

• Monitoring log
  • Events dictionary
• Web service API
  • Introduction
  • Alignak daemons API
  • Alignak overall state
  • Alignak detailed status
  • Alignak live synthesis
  • Alignak known problems
  • Alignak objects
  • Alignak external commands
  • Satellites list
  • Satellites configuration
  • Alignak configuration reload
• Alignak Statistics
  • Getting monitoring statistics from Alignak
  • Getting inner metrics from Alignak
• Realms
  • Introduction
  • Realms in few words
  • Realms are not poller_tags!
  • Sub realms
  • Example of realm usage
  • Realms configuration
• Monitoring a DMZ
  • Tag your hosts and pollers for being “in the DMZ”
  • Configuration part
• Business rules
  • View your infrastructure from a business perspective
  • How to define Business Rules?
  • The OR rule
  • The AND rule
  • The NOT rule
  • With “need at least X elements” clusters
  • Manage degraded status
  • Grouping expression expansion
  • Smart notifications
  • Consolidated services
  • Macro expansion
  • Business rule check output
• Notifications and escalations
  • Escalations
  • Definition and sample
  • Lower contact groups
  • Multiple escalations levels
  • Overlapping Escalation Ranges
  • Recovery Notifications
  • Short escalations and long notification intervals
  • Time Period Restrictions
  • State Restrictions
  • Legacy definitions: host_escalations and service_escalations based on notification number
• Time period modulations
  • Macro modulations
  • Businessimpact modulations
  • Check modulations
• Problems and impacts correlation management
  • What is this correlation ?
  • How to enable it?
  • Dynamic Business Impact
• Cached Checks
  • Introduction
  • For on-demand checks only
  • How caching works
  • What it really means
  • Configuration variables
• Integrated protocols
  • NRPE booster module
  • SNMP booster module
• Internal Checks
  • Introduction
  • Internal hosts check command
  • Internal services check command
  • Services state changes
• Inner modules
  • Introduction
  • Retention module
  • Metrics module

The next chapters explain those specific features.