Icinga 2 @ SIG-NOC Meeting

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SIG-NOC Meeting - Stuttgart
04/08/2015 Icinga - Open Source Monitoring

EXCHANGE. DEV. WIKI. BLOG. DOC. | WWW.ICINGA.ORG
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Me
• Michael Friedrich
• @dnsmichi, 31, Austrian
• Application Developer @NETWAYS
• Icinga responsibilities
• Core 1.x & 2.x Developer
• Release Manager
• On the team since 2009

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Agenda
• Icinga Project
• Icinga 1.x
• Icinga 2
• Icinga Web 2
• Demo
• Conclusion & Vision

The Icinga Project – Introduction
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Open Source Enterprise Monitoring
Icinga is a scalable and extensible monitoring system
which checks the availability of your resources, notifies
users of outages and provides extensive BI data.

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The Icinga Project – About us
• Originally forked from Nagios in April 2009
• Independent, redesigned version Icinga 2 since 2014
• Different teams with autonomic responsibilities

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The Icinga Project - Icinga Exchange

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The Icinga Project - Icinga Exchange - GitHub

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The Icinga Project – Tools & Platform
Icinga Core 1.x
C-based source
MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle
Icinga Quality, Testing and Community Support
Website and Open Source Ticketing System
Icinga Reports
based on Jasper
Reports
Icinga Doc
based on
Markdown
3rd Party Tools
Icinga Web 1.x
based on PHP using ExtJS, Agavi MVC
IDOUTILS
Icinga Web 2
Based on PHP / responsive design
Icinga 2
C++-based source with
multiple components
IDO Livestatus Cluster …

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Icinga 1 - Overview
• Original fork from Nagios 3.2.0
• Improved Core, intergrated IDOUtils DB backend
• Enhanced Classic UI & new Icinga Web 1.x
• Stable version: 1.13.1 (5.4.2015)
• 38 releases until today
• We’ll keep it in maintenance!

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Icinga 1 – Changes 2014/2015
• Core
– Usability, security & performance fixes
– Recurring downtimes script
• Classic UI
– Enhanced filters for modified by attributes
– Support for compressed logfiles
• Icinga Web 1
– Rewritten session handling
– Custom variables in grids

Host
Databases Network
Icinga 2 – Use cases
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Monitors
Apps
HardwareOS Storage
Host Switches Services

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Alerts
Mail
SMS
Voice
Ticket

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Reports

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Icinga 2 - Overview
• Stable Version: 2.3.3 (26.3.2015)
• Next major version: 2.4.0 (Q4 2015)
• Supports all major distributions
• Puppet, Chef and Ansible support
• Packages and Vagrant Box available now!
https://dev.icinga.org/projects/i2/roadmap

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Icinga 2 - Overview
• Powerful CLI
• MySQL & PostgreSQL support
• New configuration format
• Includes a extensive template library
• Compatible with plugins, addons, UIs

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Icinga 2 – Vagrant

Checker
Notify
Gelf
Perfdata Graphite
IDO
Compat
Livestatus
Icinga 2 - Architecture
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Livestatus
Icinga 2 - Enable Livestatus
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CA Zones API
Icinga 2 - Cluster Overview
Cluster
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Icinga 2 - Cluster Architecture
• API communication using SSL
• Bidirectional connections supported
• Zone support for logic splits in the configuration
• Hash-based load distribution
• “binlog” like retention for monitoring events and messages
• Distributed components throughout the cluster
• Automatic redistribution of checks
• Integrated health check

Icinga 2 - Cluster Distribution
Checker
Perfdata GELF
IDO
Open
TSDB
Graphite
Livestatus Checker
Statusdat
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Icinga 2 - Cluster Zones
IDO
Checker
Graphite
Livestatus Checker
Statusdat
Host Host
Host
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Checker
Perfdata IDO

Icinga 2 – Resource optimization
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30.000 Services
CPU-Cycles Memory
Megabyte
Cyclesinmillions
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Icinga 2 - Configuration
• New configuration format
• Won’t miss the old config syntax!
• It is really time for change
• You will love it!
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Icinga 2 – Configuration: Syntax Highlighting
# cd /usr/share/doc/icinga2-common*/syntax
# PREFIX=~/.vim
# mkdir –p $PREFIX/{syntax,ftdetect}
# cp vim/syntax/icinga2.vim $PREFIX/syntax/
# cp vim ftdetect/icinga2.vim $PREFIX/ftdetect/
# vim /etc/icinga2/icinga2.conf
• Use syntax highlighting!

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Icinga 2 – Configuration: Console
# yum install rlwrap
# rlwrap icinga2 console
• Use ‘icinga2 console’ to test values, functions, etc!
• https://www.icinga.org/resources/live-console/
• Install rlwrap 

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Icinga 2 – Configuration: Value Types
• Get to know all the value types!

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Icinga 2 – Configuration: Constants
• PluginDir, MysqlPassword, SnmpCommunity, …

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Icinga 2 – Configuration: Templates
• Templates for generic attributes

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Icinga 2 – Configuration: Custom Attributes
• Numbers, Strings, Booleans, Arrays, Dictionaries
• Filters, Match Conditions, additional information

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Icinga 2 – Configuration: Commands
• Optional/conditional arguments, functions, default values

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Icinga 2 – Hosts and Services
• Checkable objects and attributes

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Icinga 2 – Configuration: Apply Services
• Match on (custom) attributes, names (assign)
• Exclude objects (ignore)

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Icinga 2 – Configuration: Apply For
• For loops over arrays/dictionaries

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Icinga 2 – Configuration: Notifications
• Dynamic notification rules

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Icinga 2 – Configuration: Dependencies
• Host-on-Service, Service-on-Host, Classic
HOST
router
SERVICE
router-uplink
Icinga 2
HOST
website-server
Reachable?

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Icinga 2 – Configuration: Conditionals
• If-then-else

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Icinga 2 – Configuration: Loops
• While, for and break/continue

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Icinga 2 – Configuration: Type methods & Object Accessors
• Array#sort, Dictionary#contains, String#find, …
• http://docs.icinga.org/icinga2/latest/doc/module/icinga2/chapter/language-reference#language-reference
• http://docs.icinga.org/icinga2/latest/doc/module/icinga2/chapter/library-reference#library-reference
• Object accessors
– get_host(), get_service(), etc
– Access config and runtime attributes
– e.g. get_host(NodeName).state

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Icinga 2 – Configuration: Functions
• Use pre-defined or your own
– regex(), match(), …
• Custom attributes, command, argument values

Icinga 2 – Configuration – Another cool thing
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Icinga 2 – Configuration – Time dependent thresholds
• Time dependent thresholds

Icinga 2 - Migration
• Start with a fresh server
• Inventory of plugins & configuration
• Define your configuration strategy with Icinga 2
• Create the best Command and Apply definitions only once
• Only add hosts (and users) in the future
• More migration hints on the docs!
http://docs.icinga.org/icinga2/latest/doc/module/icinga2/chapter/migration#migration
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Icinga 2 – Migration: Assign service to hosts in Icinga 1.x
define service{
host_name linux1,linux2,linux3,...,linux9
service_description ssh-check
other service directives ...
}
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Icinga 2 – Migration: Apply service to hosts in Icinga 2
apply Service "ssh" {
import "generic-service”
check_command = "ssh”
assign where host.address && host.vars.os == "Linux”
}

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Icinga 2 – Migration – Assign members to Hostgroup in Icinga 1.x
define hostgroup{
hostgroup_name linux-servers
alias Linux Servers
members linux1,linux2,linux3
}

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Icinga 2 – Migration – Assign members to Hostgroup in Icinga 1.x
object Host “mysql-server1" {
address = "10.0.0.1“
check_command = "hostalive“
}
object HostGroup "mysql-server" {
display_name = "MySQL Server“
assign where match("*mysql*", host.name)
}

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Icinga Web 2 - Motivation: Classic UI
• Not extendable
• Lacks real user management
– Authorization based on contacts - not enough for enterprise
needs
• Not usable on mobile devices
• Same machine as core
• Heavy I/O

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Icinga Web 2 – Motivation: Icinga Web 1.x
• Complicated XML configuration
• Cached configuration
• Framework overhead
• Not useable on mobile devices
• Slow in big environments
• Complicated API

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Icinga Web 2: Key features
• Lightweight like Classic UI & flexible as Icinga Web 1.x
• Easy to extend and embed into other projects
• Support for multiple authentication providers
– Internal DB
– LDAP
– HTTP Auth
• Support for IDO database & Livestatus
• Supports multiple backends simultaneously, as failover backend
• Responsive actions (tablet, mobile, etc)
• FAST!

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Icinga Web 2 - Overview
• Beta Version: 2.0.0-beta3 (13.3.2015)
• Release Candidate: 2.0.0-rc1 (late May 2015)
• Final version: 2.0.0 (scheduled for Q2 2015)
• Supports all major distributions
• Apache & Nginx support
• Packages and Vagrant Box available now!
https://dev.icinga.org/projects/icingaweb2/roadmap

Backends Authentication Setup Wizard
Framework / Icinga PHP LibraryWeb 2
Icinga Web 2 - Foundation
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Web 2
Monitoring Docs
Icinga Web 2 - Modules
Business
Process
Graphite PNP
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Icinga Web 2 - Dashboard
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Icinga Web 2 – Detail View
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Icinga Web 2 – Event Grid
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Icinga Web 2 – Service Grid
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Icinga Web 2: CLI
• Uses Icinga Web 2 framework & backends

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Icinga Web 2: Responsiveness
• Your dashboard
• Workstation
• Tablet
• Mobile
• …

Icinga Web 2 – Modules: PNP
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Icinga Web 2 – Modules: Business Processes
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Icinga Web 2 – Modules: Ticketsystems
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Icinga Web 2 – Modules: More, more, more
• Currently in development
– PNP (Graphing)
– Business Process
– Generic TTS (Ticket System Intergration)
• Coming
– Graphite (Graphing)
– Logstash as History Detail
– …

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Icinga Web 2 – Modules: Prototypes
• Ask Mr. Gelf 

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Icinga 2 - Demo
DEMO

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Icinga 2 – Demo
Get VirtualBox >= 4.2.16 && Vagrant >= 1.6.5
$ git clone --recursive https://github.com/Icinga/icinga-vagrant.git
$ cd icinga-vagrant
$ cd icinga2x-cluster
$ vagrant up
$ vagrant ssh icinga2a
$ vagrant ssh icinga2b
$> sudo –i
http://192.168.33.10 & http://192.168.33.20

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The Community - Users
You?

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The Community - Icinga Camps 2015
Kuala Lumpur 2015
June 9th
Portland 2015
October 10th
Antwerp 2015
April 13th

Conclusion
• Download Icinga 2
– Use packages
– Play with Vagrant and VirtualBox
• Rethink you configuration strategy
– Follow extensive migration docs, it is time for a change!
• Install Icinga Web 2 and play with it
• Give us feedback
– dev.icinga.org
– IRC
– Twitter
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Vision
• No enterprise edition
• Enterprise integration
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Questions & Answers
Web www.icinga.org
Git git.icinga.org
Development dev.icinga.org
Wiki wiki.icinga.org
Support support.icinga.org
Twitter twitter.com/icinga
Facebook facebook.com/icinga Get support
Get involved
Get heard

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