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Centreon is a free Open Source monitoring software, published by the
Centreon French society. It measures the availability and performance of
the application layers, the user experience to the hardware resources.

Centreon is a powerful tool for the monitoring administrators and operators. 
It integrates since 2012 his own scheduler engine (Centreon Engine) and Event Manager
(Centreon Broker).


Beyond configuration concepts that are the most advanced in the Nagios ecosystem
, Centreon provides many features such as consultation
of services state of monitored equipment, metrology, reporting,
access to monitoring events, users advanced management via
access control lists (ACLs), etc.


Additional extensions from the community and Centreonr
also expand the functions. Found for example a BI tool, the
mapping and many API for interacting with Centreon as
automated configuration management.



Mature, reliable and innovative Centreon stands out by its ability
to offer a platform tailored to the "trade" vision required by the
responsible, while structuring and strategic IT core data (availability,
ability, maintainability, reliability).


The unlimited distribution and performance of the data collection system are
also of the strengths of the software suite. Centreon meets the constraints
of scalability, network partitioning, geographically fragmented sites and
limited pass-band.
