Talk given at Icinga Camp Belgrade

1. www.icinga.org
ICINGA WEB 2
#Icingacamp – Belgrade– 23/9/2016

2. ICINGA WEB 2 2.3.4
RELEASED ON JUN 23, 2016

3. MOTIVATION

4. Old Fart

7. • Not extendable
• Lacks real user management
• Not useable on mobile devices
• Has to run on the core machine
• Heavy I/O

9. • XML configuration
• Cached configuration
• Framework overhead
• Not useable on mobile devices
• Complicated API

10. • Another application to maintain
• Lacks features
• No active development

11. LESSONS LEARNED

12. • Keep framework overhead at a minimum
• Usable on any device
• Easy to set up and use
• No manual cache management
• Easy API

13. ARCHITECTURE

14. Web 2
Monitoring Docs
BP NagVis PNP

15. KEY FEATURES

16. • Developed from scratch using
• PHP 5.3
• Zend Framework 1 and jQuery
• Vagrant it!
• git clone git://git.icinga.org/icingaweb2.git
• vagrant up

17. • Easy to extend and embed
• Simple INI configuration
• Small footprint, fast and responsive

18. • Multiple authentication methods
• Active Directory, LDAP and DB
• Via Webserver, e.g. Kerberos
• May be chained

19. • Role based access control
• Permissions, e.g.
• Permit access to modules
• Permit access to configuration
• Permit Icinga commands
• Restrictions, e.g.
• Limit access to specific hosts and services

20. • Supports Icinga 1.x and Icinga 2.x
• Supports MySQL and PostgreSQL
• Basic API with JSON and CSV export
• URL filters

21. icingaweb2/monitoring/list/service
s?service_problem=1&format=json

25. Demo

26. ROADMAP

27. • Modules, modules, modules, ...
• More API actions
• exchange.icinga.org integration

28. THANK YOU!
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