[[!summary chatGPT: This article discusses the author's experience with deploying the monitoring tool Shinken on Gentoo and troubleshooting an issue with the Livestatus service. The author describes the dependencies they installed and provides a solution to the problem they encountered.]]
[[!meta date="2011-05-18 08:58"]]
[[!tag gentoo shinken]]
[[!img media/shinken.png alt="copied from shinken-monitoring.org" style="float: right"]]
[[!series shinken]]

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# motivation
recently i had problems with the deployment of an** experimental** '**shinken**' [1],  a monitoring tool, on gentoo. most of the installation was 'straightforward'. but i had a problem with livestatus in combination to '**thruk**' [2].

**Note:** i basically used the **shinken guide [3]** for fast and easy testing of shinken
	
  * gentoo linux in virtualbox
  * shinken 0.6
  * thruk-1.0.3 (using the perl webserver; NOT using apache2)

# dependencies
this list contains packages which are not essentially (as the apache and mysql stuff) but it's basically all packages i've installed to make it work, so just pick what you need:

    > sys-apps/portage-2.1.9.25
    app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-baselibs-20100915-r1
    sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.36-r5
    sys-kernel/genkernel-3.4.10.907
    app-arch/xz-utils-4.999.9_beta
    sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.36-r5
    sys-boot/grub-0.97-r10
    sys-kernel/genkernel-3.4.10.907
    app-portage/eix-0.20.5
    net-misc/dhcpcd-5.2.8
    app-admin/eselect-vi-1.1.7-r1
    sys-libs/gpm-1.20.6
    app-admin/eselect-ctags-1.13
    app-portage/eix-0.20.5
    sys-apps/iproute2-2.6.35-r2
    dev-util/ctags-5.7
    app-editors/vim-core-7.3.50
    app-editors/vim-7.3.50
    app-vim/gentoo-syntax-20100215
    dev-python/setuptools-0.6.15
    dev-python/pyro-3.12
    dev-python/pyro-4.3
    app-admin/metalog-1
    virtual/logger-0
    net-libs/libpcap-1.1.1
    net-analyzer/nmap-5.21-r1
    app-editors/gentoo-editor-2
    virtual/pam-0
    net-mail/mailbase-1
    mail-mta/ssmtp-2.62-r8
    virtual/mta-0
    app-admin/sudo-1.7.4_p5
    dev-libs/oniguruma-5.9.2
    dev-db/mysql-init-scripts-1.2
    dev-libs/apr-1.4.4
    app-admin/eselect-php-0.6.2
    dev-libs/libmcrypt-2.5.8-r2
    dev-util/pkgconfig-0.25-r2
    sys-apps/ed-1.4
    dev-perl/Net-Daemon-0.43
    perl-core/Storable-2.20
    perl-core/File-Spec-3.31
    virtual/perl-Sys-Syslog-0.27
    dev-libs/libpcre-8.12
    dev-libs/apr-util-1.3.11
    virtual/perl-Storable-2.20
    virtual/perl-File-Spec-3.31
    app-admin/apache-tools-2.2.17
    dev-perl/PlRPC-0.202.0
    www-servers/apache-2.2.17
    dev-perl/DBI-1.615
    dev-db/mysql-5.0.91
    virtual/mysql-5.0
    dev-perl/DBD-mysql-4.01.7
    dev-lang/php-5.3.6
    media-libs/gd-2.0.35-r1
    dev-perl/GD-2.44
    dev-perl/yaml-0.71
    app-misc/screen-4.0.3-r4
    dev-perl/JSON-2.27
    perl-core/Compress-Raw-Zlib-2.024
    app-arch/unzip-6.0-r1
    app-vim/genutils-2.5
    virtual/perl-MIME-Base64-3.08
    dev-perl/URI-1.55
    app-misc/beep-1.2.2-r1
    dev-libs/eventlog-0.2.12
    app-text/build-docbook-catalog-1.4
    app-text/sgml-common-0.6.3-r5
    dev-libs/libgpg-error-1.10
    app-text/docbook-xsl-stylesheets-1.75.2
    dev-libs/libgcrypt-1.4.6
    dev-libs/libxslt-1.1.26-r1
    app-text/docbook-xml-dtd-4.3-r1
    dev-util/gtk-doc-am-1.16
    dev-libs/glib-2.28.6
    app-admin/syslog-ng-3.1.4
    net-analyzer/nagios-plugins-1.4.14-r2
    app-misc/realpath-1.15-r1
    app-portage/gentoolkit-0.2.4.6.1-r1
    dev-python/simplejson-2.1.3
    dev-db/sqlite-3.7.5
    dev-python/pysqlite-2.6.3

# problem with livestatus

i've missed a line in the README of shinken and therefore the livestatus service on port 50000 was not enabled. but there was no 'good' error message mentioning what actually got wrong.

thruk reported (in the webinterface):

> No Backend available

shinken reported (/var/lib/shinken/brokerd.log):


> [broker-1] Warning : the module type livestatus for Livestatus was not found in modules!


But that was fixed after i installed:

  * dev-db/sqlite-3.7.5
  * dev-python/pysqlite-2.6.3

and restarted shinken.

## debugging
look into:

  * /etc/shinken/  (config files)
  * /var/lib/shinken (log files)

optinally one can restart a single module of the shinken service with debugging:

> /etc/init.d/shinken-broker -d restart

## solution
# links


* [1] <http://www.shinken-monitoring.org/>
* [2] <http://www.thruk.org/>
* [3] <http://www.shinken-monitoring.org/wiki/shinken_10min_start>