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Born in 2003, under the name of Oreon, Centreon was intended to supply an interface of configuration to Nagios. In order to structure all the realizations and numerous users' requests, Merethis becomes in 2005, the publishing company of the solution. This major step allows the project to evolve at the international level and it is during that period that it takes the new name of Centreon.
Centreon then becomes an IT infrastructure and applicative supervision and monitoring tool, based upon the most effective Open Source monitoring engine: Nagios. Centreon provides a new frontend and new functionalities to Nagios for heterogeneous and distributed environments. Centreon provides a user-ready, flexible and easy-to-use browser interface to facilitate system monitoring set-up. The Centreon web portal provides a central location to view and act on information provided by Nagios. Centreon also consolidates resource information with performance information into a single workspace and provides graph tools that can be used to help monitor timely performance and understand current utilization of existing capacity (capacity planning tools). Those features are available in Centreon Core which is the part of the product that remains fully Open Source. With Centreon Core are also available several Open Source extensions that are supported by Merethis such as CLAPI (Command Line API brings monitoring automation and allows you to deploy custom monitoring and management scripts) Syslog (brings comprehensive real time surveillance by providing tools to display the network Syslog events in a single interface) or DSM (Dynamic System Monitoring stores and add a timestamp to events and alerts related to job schedulers task completion). More add-ons are also available through our community.
In order to offer all the essential necessary features required for a professional service availability and network performance monitoring, the Centreon software suite has been evolving to meet the needs of the most demanding Information Systems Division while bringing the flexibility of Open Source Software. Three more modules can be added to Centreon Core via subscription including new features and support plans:
- Centreon BAM provides visibility to service quality and key performance indicator; it offers you the opportunity to be better informed about the overall health of your IT infrastructure and to take the right decisions at the right time.
- Centreon Map is an advanced cartography tool and framework that allows you to create custom views and present Centreon indicators accessible to everyone, not just the technical staff. Using its display and real-time synchronization, Centreon MAP is widely used around Network Operating Centers (NOCs).
- Centreon BI provides reporting tools and applications that analyze data determining the production capacity needed by your organization and offers the possibility of generating customized reports.
In 2011 Merethis released CES (Centreon Enterprise Sever) a GNU / Linux distribution dedicated to a Centreon based monitoring platform based on CentOS operating system. CES provides pre-configured out-of-the-box tools to automate the monitoring of essential system resources deploy alert management and business service management and set up your monitoring portal and console.
On top of that you can subscribe to other Merethis products (Centreon BAM, Centreon BI and Centreon Map and ) and a few more specific extensions such as Centreon-Procedure (makes use of Wikis to centralize operational knowledge and link to the various resources that are monitored in Centreon for easy sharing across the monitoring and technical staff) Centreon-ConfigBook (automatically generates documents about the whole Centreon monitoring system configuration) Centreon-Disco and Centreon-AutoDisco (agentless technology that automatically collects information to monitor via a template almost any device or application) Centreon-CSVImport (easily define monitored objects and process via massive imports in the Centreon interface using CSV files based on existing models). Merethis teams are now focusing on packs of plugins (dedicated to OS, hardware, network components, middleware or Windows through WMI) to ensure proper monitoring. Currently subscriptions are available through Merethis and its consulting partners. An ambitious partner program is also on its way to clinch new deals with technology partners in various fields such as IT Security, Ticketing or other IT Service Management tools.
In 2011 Merethis engineers have also been working on two new projects to replace Nagios and NDO (an official addon that brings database support back to Nagios) within Centreon Core, by respectively Centreon Engine and Centreon Broker. The Merethis development teams gave life to Centreon Engine using the Nagios 3.X version as a starting point, their aim is to improve its performances, brush up the architecture (web services, modules, framework ...) and add new features such as load balancing and high availability. Centreon Broker uses prepared statements (an interesting DBMS feature) to improve performance; it also includes better security features based on TLS encryption standards. As a consequence Centreon can now be powered by Centreon Engine & Centreon Broker instead of Nagios & NDO, creating a fully integrated and supported powerful IT infrastructure and applicative supervision and monitoring tool.
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