---
name: "shinken-arbiter"
section: "8"
platform: "linux"
package: "shinken-common"
version: "2.0.3-4"
release: "Debian 8 (Jessie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/shinken-arbiter"
---

# shinken-arbiter(8)

Shinken arbiter daemon

## NAME

shinken-arbiter - Shinken arbiter daemon

## SYNOPSIS

**shinken-arbiter** \[-dr\] \[-c *CONFIGFILE*\] \[--debugfile *DEBUGFILE*\] **shinken-arbiter** -v \[-c *CONFIGFILE*\]

## DESCRIPTION

Shinken arbiter daemon

The **shinken-arbiter** daemon reads the configuration, divides it into parts (N schedulers = N parts), and distributes them to the appropriate Shinken daemons. Additionally, it manages the high availability features: if a particular daemon dies, it re-routes the configuration managed by this failed  daemon to the configured spare. Finally, it receives input from users (such as external commands from nagios.cmd) and routes them to the appropriate daemon. There can only be one active arbiter in the architecture.

## OPTIONS

- **-v, --verify-config**

  Verify config file and exit

- **-c** *CONFIGFILE,* **--config=***CONFIGFILE*

  Config file (your nagios.cfg). Multiple -c can be used, it will be like if all files was just one

- **-d, --daemon**

  Run in daemon mode

- **-r, --replace**

  Replace previous running arbiter

- **-h, --help**

  Show this help message

- **--version**

  Show program's version number

- **--debugfile=***DEBUGFILE*

  Enable debug logging to *DEBUGFILE*

- **-p** *PROFILE,* **--profile=***PROFILE*

  Dump a profile file. Need the python cProfile librairy

- **-a** *ANALYSE,* **--analyse=***ANALYSE*

  Dump an analyse statistics file, for support

- **-m** *MIGRATE,* **--migrate=***MIGRATE*

  Migrate the raw configuration read from the arbier to another module. --\> VERY EXPERIMENTAL!

- **-n** *ARB\_NAME,* **--name=***ARB\_NAME*

  Give the arbiter name to use. Optionnal, will use the hostaddress if not provide to find it.

## AUTHOR

Michael Leinartas, Arthur Gautier, David Hannequin, Thibault Cohen