The document summarizes a presentation given by Markus Frosch from the Icinga team at the FroSCon 2014 conference. The presentation provided an overview of the Icinga monitoring project, including updates on Icinga 1.x and 2.x releases, a demonstration of the new Icinga Web 2 interface, and a discussion of future plans which include further development of Icinga 2 and integrating business process monitoring capabilities. Attendees were invited to get involved with the Icinga open source project.

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Icinga 1, Icinga 2
News about the Icinga Project
FroSCon 2014
24th August – Team Icinga

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AAggeennddaa
• Introduction
• Tools & Platform
• Icinga project update
• Icinga 2
• Icinga Web 2
• What‘s next
• Questions & Answers
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MMee
• Markus Frosch @lazyfrosch
• Forked 1984
• Working @NETWAYS
• Icinga responsibilities
– Web Q&A
– Packaging
• Debian Member
• In the Icinga Team since 2012
FroSCon 2014

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AAbboouutt IIcciinnggaa
• Icinga 1.x core forked from Nagios in April 2009
• Icinga 2.x started from scratch
• 100 % Free Software - GPL
• Different teams with independent responsibilities
– Icinga Core
– Icinga Packaging
– Icinga Web & Reporting
– Icinga Q&A & Docs
• 26 “active” members on the team – Still searching!
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IIcciinnggaa TTeeaamm
Core Packaging
Web & Reporting Community Docs & QA
FroSCon 2014
We want you!

7. TToooollss && PPllaattffoorrmm

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TTOOOOLLSS AANNDD PPLLAATTFFOORRMM
Icinga Core
C-based source
MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle
IDO IDO Livestatus Livestatus Cluster Cluster ……
Icinga Web
based on PHP using ExtJS, Agavi MVC
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Icinga Quality, Testing and Community Support
Website and Open Source Ticketing System
Icinga Reports
based on Jasper
Reports
and the IDO
database
Icinga Doc
based on
Markdown
IIDDOOUUTTIILLSS
Icinga 2
C++-based source with
multiple components
33rrdd PPaarrttyy TToooollss
Icinga 2 Web
Based on PHP / responsive design

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CCuurrrreenntt AArrcchhiitteeccttuurree
IIDDOO DDaattaabbaassee
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IIcciinnggaa 22 IIcciinnggaa WWeebb 22
heavy development
IIcciinnggaa WWeebb
IIcciinnggaa CCoorree
IIDDOOUUttiillss
CCllaassssiicc UUII
RREESSTT AAPPII MMoobbiillee
SOAP
Provider
Icinga Reporting
with JasperServer

10. Icinga PPrroojjeecctt UUppddaattee

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55 yyeeaarrss IIcciinnggaa
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LLaatteesstt rreelleeaasseess
• Icinga 1.11.5 (2014-06-20)
• Icinga 1.11.6 (2014-08-06)
• Icinga Web 1.11.2 (2014-08-13)
• Icinga 2
• First stable release 2.0.0 on 16th June 2014
• 2.0.1 minor release on 10th July
• 2.0.2 minor release on 7th August
• In other news:
Monitoring Plugins 2.0 is out
http://monitoring-plugins.org
FroSCon 2014

13. IIcciinnggaa 22

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IIcciinnggaa 22 -- OOvveerrvviieeww
• Based on C++ and Boost
– Supports all major *NIX and Windows platforms
• Different config format
– There is a convertion tool, but...
• Included cluster stack
• Modular components / features
• icinga2-disable-feature / icinga2-enable-feature
• Components can run anywhere in a cluster
• MySQL, PostgreSQL and Livestatus support included
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IIcciinnggaa 22 –– CCoommppoonneennttss
• Checker
• Cluster / API
• Compat
– Command Pipe
– Compat Log
– Status.dat
• Livestatus
• Perfdata
• Graphite
• Notification
• ido_mysql
• ido_postgresql
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IIcciinnggaa 22 –– MMaajjoorr ccoonnffiigg ddiiffffeerreenncceess
• Completely new code style syntax
• based on the old ideas
• Global macros
• Contact and Contactgroup -> User and UserGroup
– no notification-specific attributes for services
-> Notification Object
• Freely definable macros for commands
• Intelligent variables
• Assign rules for services
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IIcciinnggaa 22 –– MMaajjoorr ccoonnffiigg ddiiffffeerreenncceess
• Macros and variables for checks
define command {
command_name ping4
command_line $USER1$/check_ping -H
$HOSTADDRESS$ -w $ARG1$ -c $ARG2$ -p 5
}
define service {
use local-service
host_name localhost
service_description PING
check_command ping4!100.0,20%!
500.0,60%
}
template CheckCommand "ping-common" {
import "plugin-check-command"
command = [
PluginDir + "/check_ping"
]
arguments = {
"-H" = "$ping_address$"
"-w" = "$ping_wrta$,$ping_wpl$%"
"-c" = "$ping_crta$,$ping_cpl$%"
"-p" = "$ping_packets$"
"-t" = "$ping_timeout$"
}
vars.ping_wrta = 100
vars.ping_wpl = 5
vars.ping_crta = 200
vars.ping_cpl = 15
}
object CheckCommand "ping4" {
import "ping-common"
command += [ "-4" ]
vars.ping_address = "$address$"
}
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IIcciinnggaa 22 –– MMaajjoorr ccoonnffiigg ddiiffffeerreenncceess
• Assign rules for services
object Host "web01.company.com" {
import "generic-host"
address = "192.168.10.101"
address6 = "2001:db8::101”
vars.os = "Linux"
}
object Host "calamity.company.com" {
import "generic-host"
groups = [ "webserver" ]
address = "192.168.10.66"
address6 = "2001:db8::666”
vars.os = "Linux"
}
apply Service "http" {
import "generic-service"
check_command = "check_http"
assign where match("web*", host.name)
}
apply Service "ping4" {
import "generic-service"
check_command = "ping4"
assign where "generic-host" in host.templates
ignore where !host.address
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}
object HostGroup "webserver" {
display_name = "Web Servers"
assign where match("web*", host.name)
}
apply Service "https-cert" {
import "generic-service"
check_command = "check_https_cert"
assign where "webserver" in host.groups
}
object Service "tomcat" {
import "generic-service"
check_command = "tomcat"
host_name = "calamity.company.com"
}

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IIcciinnggaa 22 –– MMaajjoorr ccoonnffiigg ddiiffffeerreenncceess
• New notification object
– Icinga 1
–
service -> (contact, contactgroup) -> notification command
notification_options w,u,c,r,f,s
– Icinga 2
–
–
service -> notification -> notificationCommand -> user, userGroup
apply Notification "linux-admins" {
interval = 15m
command = "mail-service-notification"
users = [ "icingaadmin" ]
states = [ Warning, Critical, Unknown ]
types = [ Problem, Acknowledgement, Recovery, Custom, FlappingStart,
FlappingEnd, DowntimeStart,DowntimeEnd, DowntimeRemoved ]
period = "24x7"
• Escalations act as notification with defined begin and end
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}
times = {
begin = 1h
end = 2h
}

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IIcciinnggaa 22 –– CClluusstteerr
• Cluster-based communication using TLS
• Bidirectional connections supported
• Zone / Domain support for logic splits in the configuration
• Hash-based load distribution
• “binlog” like retention for monitoring events and messages
• Distributed components throughout the cluster
compat
replication
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perfdata
livestatus
checker
ido
checker Icinga2
Icinga2
notification
IDO
Database

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DDeemmoo –– IIcciinnggaa 22
FroSCon 2014
DEMO

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GGeett IIcciinnggaa 22
• Getting started
http://docs.icinga.org/icinga2
• Snapshots and release builds
http://packages.icinga.org
Builds for: Debian, Ubuntu, SuSE, Fedora, EL based systems
• Natively available on
– Debian testing (Jessie) and Wheezy (via backports)
– Ubuntu (use PPA by formorer)
– OpenSuSE (see buildserver)
– Fedora (soon)
FroSCon 2014

23. IIcciinnggaa WWeebb 22

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Icinga Classic Icinga Web Icinga Mobile
Icinga Web 2
DDiiffffeerreenntt IInntteerrffaacceess ffoorr IIcciinnggaa
Thruk, …
FroSCon 2014

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WWhhyy aannootthheerr IInntteerrffaaccee
• We want a solution for all platforms
– Simple and lightweight
– Responsive for desktop, tablet, phone
• Icinga-Classic doesn’t fit large environments
• Icinga-Web is hard to extend
• CLI-Support for cronjobs, plugins and shell
• Support for multiple backends
• All existing versions will be in active maintenance!
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IIcciinnggaa WWeebb 22
• Lightweight like Icinga classic and flexible like Icinga Web
• Easy to extend and embed into other projects
• Support for multiple backends
– Status.dat
– Database
– Livestatus
• Supports multiple backends simultaneously, as failover
backend
• Supports Icinga 1.x and Icinga 2.x
• Responsive actions
• FAST!
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DDeemmoo –– IIcciinnggaa WWeebb 22
FroSCon 2014
DEMO

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DDeemmoo –– IIcciinnggaa WWeebb 22
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What else?

29. WWhhaatt’’ss nneexxtt

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FFuuttuurree ooff IIcciinnggaa 11..xx
• Bugfixes
• Smaller features
• Compatibility to Icinga 2
• No fixed release schedule
• Keep quality and allow users to migrate!
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IIcciinnggaa 22 –– WWhhaatt’’ss nneexxtt
• Icinga 2.1 (very soon)
– Cluster improvements
– Logging and documentation
• Planned features
– Business Process Integration, join the discussion!
– Agent for remote checks
– your idea?
• Modules for Puppet, Ansible, …
• See DEV tracker
FroSCon 2014

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RRooaaddmmaapp
• Roadmap Icinga
– https://dev.icinga.org/projects/icinga-development/
roadmap
• Roadmap Icinga 2
– https://dev.icinga.org/projects/i2/roadmap
• Roadmap Icinga Web 2
– https://dev.icinga.org/projects/icinga-2-web/roadmap
• Roadmap based on
– Bugs
– Sponsors
– Feedback (dev.icinga.org, Twitter, etc.)
– Team members’ interests
FroSCon 2014

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QQUUEESSTTIIOONNSS && AANNSSWWEERRSS
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Web + Blog www.icinga.org
Docs docs.icinga.org
Development dev.icinga.org
Sourcecode git.icinga.org
Releases github.com/Icinga
Wiki wiki.icinga.org
IRC #icinga on FreeNode
Mailing lists lists.icinga.org
Support support.icinga.org
Twitter twitter.com/icinga
Facebook facebook.com/icinga
…….. Everywhere!
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Questions & Answers