The document summarizes an open source monitoring conference presented by the Icinga team. It provides an agenda for the conference that includes introductions to Icinga tools and platforms, comparisons to Nagios, architecture details, new features in Icinga's core, classic UI, documentation and web modules, and a live demo. It also discusses Icinga's team members, statistics on downloads and members, and a roadmap for future development.

1. Open Source Monitoring
Icinga Team
Nuremberg | 29th November
Open Source Monitoring Conference
WWW.ICINGA.ORG

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SOURCE
MONITORING
Agenda
! Introduction
! Tools and Platform
! Icinga vs. Nagios
! Architecture
! New in Icinga
! Live Demo
! Roadmap
! What’s next
! Questions & Answers
www.icinga.org | doc.icinga.org | wiki.icinga.org | twitter.com/icinga

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MONITORING
Team
www.icinga.org | doc.icinga.org | wiki.icinga.org | twitter.com/icinga

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MONITORING
Introduction
Statistics
! Forked from Nagios in April 2009
! Over 128.000 downloads until now – more to come with 1.6 J
! Different teams with independent responsibilities
! Icinga Core
! Icinga Web
! Icinga Reporting
! Icinga Marketing
! Icinga Q&A
! 24 “active” members on the team
www.icinga.org | doc.icinga.org | wiki.icinga.org | twitter.com/icinga

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MONITORING
Introduction
Merchandising
www.icinga.org | doc.icinga.org | wiki.icinga.org | twitter.com/icinga

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MONITORING
Introduction
Merchandising
(Behind the scenes)
www.icinga.org | doc.icinga.org | wiki.icinga.org | twitter.com/icinga

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SOURCE
MONITORING
Tools and Platform
Icinga Quality, Testing and Community Support
Website and Open Source Ticketing System
Icinga Core Icinga Web Icinga Doc Icinga
Reports
based on PHP based on
C based source
using Sencha, Docbook in based on
MySQL, PostgreSQL and Oracle
Agavi MVC English and Jasper Reports
German
Classic-­‐UI
IDOUtils
IcingaMQ
Mobile
NRPE and NSCA
www.icinga.org | doc.icinga.org | wiki.icinga.org | twitter.com/icinga

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Icinga vs. Nagios
! Optimized database support
! Better performance & platform flexibility
! MySQL
! PostgreSQL
! Oracle
! 80+ bug fixes missing in Nagios ®
(https://wiki.icinga.org/display/Dev/Bug+and+Feature+Comparison)
! Many improvements in Core, Classic UI and a new web
interface
! IPv6 and IPv4 support, compound commands, log file search and logging
! SLA aggregation and reporting
! Plugin and configuration compatibility with Nagios ®
! Public roadmap and active development
www.icinga.org | doc.icinga.org | wiki.icinga.org | twitter.com/icinga

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MONITORING
Architecture
Classic UI REST API Mobile
Icinga Web
Icinga Core (with DB abstraction layer)
IDOUtils
SOAP
Provider
IDO Database Icinga Reporting
www.icinga.org | doc.icinga.org | wiki.icinga.org | twitter.com/icinga

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New in Icinga - Core
! Acknowledgement with expiry time
! Dualstacked IPv6 support
! Extended logging capabilities
! Object configuration for modules
! Notifications for stalked hosts and services
! Handling of perfdata with empty results
! Enhanced performance (e.g. in notification logic)
www.icinga.org | doc.icinga.org | wiki.icinga.org | twitter.com/icinga

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New in Icinga - Classic UI
! Acknowledgement of blocking outages
! Advanced RegEx search
! Various improvements in navigation
! Advanced data export
! JSON
! CSV
! XML
! Logfile search supported via webinterface
! Maintenance view for hosts and services in
downtime
www.icinga.org | doc.icinga.org | wiki.icinga.org | twitter.com/icinga

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New in Icinga - IDOUtils
! Optimized check result processing
! Timezone awareness using UTC
! Improved Oracle support
! CLOBs for outputs
! Advanced table creation script
! Automatic db-version check
! Various improvements in housekeeping
www.icinga.org | doc.icinga.org | wiki.icinga.org | twitter.com/icinga

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New in Icinga - IDOUtils
! SLA Extension
! Improved event aggregation
! Extended database model
! Extended IDO2DB logic
! Base for future reporting implementation
Critical - Event
Service
(Timeline)
Downtime Acknowledgement
Event 1 Event 2 Event 3 Event 4
www.icinga.org | doc.icinga.org | wiki.icinga.org | twitter.com/icinga

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New in Icinga - Documentation
! Documentation
! Detailed filter doc for CGIs
! Quickstart for FreeBSD
! PNP now described as default graphing solution
! External command specification
! Wiki
! Installation guides for various platforms
! Addon documentation- and installations-guides
www.icinga.org | doc.icinga.org | wiki.icinga.org | twitter.com/icinga

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New in Icinga - Web
! Reporting integration
! Execute reports in Icinga Web
! Download supported formats directly without access to
Jasper
! Job scheduling
! Detailed user privileges
! New module interface
! Update safe modules
! Independent module configuration and installation
! New API
! New Doctrine based abstraction layer supports various
databases with easier configuration
www.icinga.org | doc.icinga.org | wiki.icinga.org | twitter.com/icinga

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New in Icinga - Web
! New Tackle Cronk
! Offers an easy way to see all relevant data in one window
! Time correlation of incoming events
! Relationship windows show all necessary elements
! Comments and detailed host and service information in
one window
! Comes as an additional view with Icinga 1.6
! New User Management
! Revamped interface
! Easy administration of complex access rules
www.icinga.org | doc.icinga.org | wiki.icinga.org | twitter.com/icinga

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MONITORING
Live Demo
DEMO
www.icinga.org | doc.icinga.org | wiki.icinga.org | twitter.com/icinga

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Roadmap
! Planned public events
! Chemnitzer Linux Tag
! CeBIT 2012
! GUUG
! UKUUG - Edinburgh
! Versions planned for 2012
! 03/01/2012 – 1.7
! 08/01/2012 – 1.8
! 10/17/2012 – 1.9
www.icinga.org | doc.icinga.org | wiki.icinga.org | twitter.com/icinga

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What’s next ?
! Business process integration
! Integration of business processes is on our roadmap for
2012
! Bernd Strössenreuther (current BP Addon maintainer)
will join Icinga
! Extend capabilities of business service monitoring and
reporting
! Performance improvements
! Optimized check result handling
! Easier handling of large installations
! Optimized installation process
! One more thing….
www.icinga.org | doc.icinga.org | wiki.icinga.org | twitter.com/icinga

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MONITORING
IcingaMQ
www.icinga.org | doc.icinga.org | wiki.icinga.org | twitter.com/icinga

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IcingaMQ
! Built on ZeroMQ
! Message-queue-like transport layer based on TCP
! Multi-level communication
! Core implementation based on C
! Libraries available for every popular language and
operation system
! Solution for large environments’ fork performance
lags
! Framework for distributed setup and architecture
! Future replacement for NSCA
! Transport layer for upcoming Core API
www.icinga.org | doc.icinga.org | wiki.icinga.org | twitter.com/icinga

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MONITORING
IcingaMQ-Architecture
Icinga Core event broker
libicinga
IcingaMQ libimq
Server
zeromq
Check
Result
IcingaMQ
Broker/Dispatcher
IcingaMQ
Broker/Dispatcher
IcingaMQ
Broker/Dispatcher
www.icinga.org | doc.icinga.org | wiki.icinga.org | twitter.com/icinga

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MONITORING
IcingaMQ - Advanced
Icinga Core
IcingaMQ
Server
Check
Result
IcingaMQ IcingaMQ
Broker/Dispatcher Broker/Dispatcher
Check Result
IcingaMQ
Broker/
IcingaMQ Dispatcher
Broker/Dispatcher
IcingaMQ
Broker/
Dispatcher
www.icinga.org | doc.icinga.org | wiki.icinga.org | twitter.com/icinga

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MONITORING
IcingaMQ - Advanced
Icinga Core
IcingaMQ
Server
Check
Result
IcingaMQ Request
Broker/Dispatcher
CORE-API
Result
XML-RPC
www.icinga.org | doc.icinga.org | wiki.icinga.org | twitter.com/icinga

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MONITORING
IcingaMQ - Advanced
Icinga Core
IcingaMQ
Server
Check
Result
IcingaMQ
Broker/Dispatcher
CheckResult (NSCA)
Result
www.icinga.org | doc.icinga.org | wiki.icinga.org | twitter.com/icinga

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MONITORING
IcingaMQ
! Solution for load distribution
! Automatic fallback to Core checks
! Authentication provider to meet various
requirements
! Architecture for distributed setup
! Future base for addons and web interface
! Replacement for NSCA
www.icinga.org | doc.icinga.org | wiki.icinga.org | twitter.com/icinga

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MONITORING
Live Demo
DEMO
www.icinga.org | doc.icinga.org | wiki.icinga.org | twitter.com/icinga

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MONITORING
Questions & Answers
Web www.icinga.org
Development dev.icinga.org
?
Feedback feedback.icinga.org
Wiki wiki.icinga.org
Twitter twitter.com/icinga
Facebook facebook.com/icinga
Questions & Answers
……..
Everywhere!
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