The document discusses Icinga Web 2, a new web interface for monitoring systems with Icinga. It provides key motivations for its development, including limitations of prior interfaces. Icinga Web 2 features a simplified PHP-based architecture with improved extensibility, configuration, and support for multiple devices. The presentation demonstrates Icinga Web 2 and solicits questions from the audience.

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Icinga Web 2
Icinga Camp San Francisco
25th September 2014
San Francisco

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● Eric
● eric.lippmann@icinga.org
● Icinga Web and Icinga Web 2
developer
● Started to contribute to the Icinga
project in 2011
● This sad bird does not have Twitter
● github.com/lippser
Me
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What it’s all about …
● Motivation
● Key Features
● Demo
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4. MOTIVATION

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Icinga CGIs
● Not extendable
● Lacks real user management
– Has authorization based on contacts but that’s not
enough for enterprise needs
● Not useable on mobile devices
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Icinga Web

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Icinga Web
● Complicated XML configuration
● Cached configuration
● Framework overhead
● Not useable on mobile devices

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Icinga Mobile
● One more application to maintain
● No active development
● Lacks features
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Lessons Learned
● Keep framework overhead at a minimum
● Should be usable on any device
● Simple configuration
● Lightweight but flexible
● Easy to use
● No cache that has to be manually cleared
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10. KEY FEATURES

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Icinga Web 2 - Key Features
● Developed from scratch using
– PHP 5.3
– Zend Framework 1 and jQuery
● Vagrant it!
– $ git clone git://git.icinga.org/icingaweb2.git
– $ vagrant up
● Multiple authentication methods
– LDAP and DB
– Webserver
– You may chain them
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Icinga Web 2 - Key Features
● Easy to extend
– Ships with a nice library
● Simple INI configuration
– All configuration can be done in the frontend
● Advanced URL filters
● CLI
● Multiple Backends
– IDO using MySQL or Postgres
– Livestatus
– But no status.dat
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Icinga Web 2 - Backends
IDO Database
IDOUtils
Icinga Core
Icinga 2
Icinga Web 2
Icinga Core w/
Livestatus
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Wanted
● Installation wizard
● Reporting
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15. DEMO

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QUESTIONS & ANSWERS
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