Canopsis is an open-source hypervisor whose goal is to aggregate/consolidate information and events (containing metrics of different types such as performance, availability, etc.) coming from multiple sources to create a global solution for monitoring and administrating resources.

Built to last on top of proven Open Source technologies by and for all IT professionals. It is an event based architecture and it is modular by design. Plug your infrastructure tools like Syslog, Nagios, Shinken, ... to Canopsis and you're ready to go.

A Glossary page is also given for better descriptions about canopsis concepts.

You can try Canopsis on demo platform:

• Master branch (stable): http://demo.canopsis.org
• Devel branch (unstable): http://demo-devel.canopsis.org

Two ways for install:

Easy way (on Debian 6 & ulterior, CentOS 6, Ubuntu 12.04 & ulterior 64Bits):

• https://github.com/capensis/canopsis/wiki/Install-from-packages

And developers way (or unsupported environment):

• https://github.com/capensis/canopsis/wiki/Install-from-sources

Now you are ready to deal with Canopsis.

You can connect your Nagios (or Icinga):

• https://github.com/capensis/canopsis-nagios

Or your Shinken:

• https://github.com/capensis/canopsis/wiki/Shinken

A Dashboard containing views and Widgets is provided in order to monitor and to administer resources.

• Wiki: https://github.com/capensis/canopsis/wiki/_pages
• Community: http://www.canopsis.org
• Forum (french): http://forums.monitoring-fr.org/index.php/board,127.0.html
• Glossary