Today we are proud to announce the official release for Icinga for Windows v1.2.0! This includes v1.2.0 of the Icinga PowerShell Framework and v1.2.0 for the Icinga PowerShell Plugins. We collected plenty of feedback during the past months from our world-wide user base and focused on stability and usability in this release, but also added several new features!
For our Cube module we use the ROLLUP SQL query to fetch all data from the database and then make a tree data structure out of the given result. This is how we make it a lot easier to render cubes dynamically.
Today I will show you briefly how to build your own Powershell Modules/Plugins using icinga-powershell-framework. As you might know, we recently started writing plugins in Powershell that can be used to monitor windows-services in Icinga2 in a simple way. If you are interested in learning more about it, everything is documented here down to the smallest detail.
The community forum is a place where you can meet and chat with other Icinga users. It’s hosted by Icinga and moderated by both the Icinga team and members of the community. It’s mostly being used as a platform to ask and answer technical questions about Icinga, which is a great way to learn more about the tool stack! What does it look like? It’s a discourse platform, so it’s a collection of threads or topics which are open for anyone to leave a comment on!
Fan of the Icinga DSL? We’ve got a couple new things for you. Now you can use the DSL to grab templates from your configuration, and we’ve also added support for a ternary operator and Lambda closures.
In late 2019 we were running our first ever user survey on Icinga. We always strive to get to know our users and their requirements better. Our goal for the survey was to get a general understanding about how Icinga is being used. The results are very interesting for us and will help us to make decisions. Today we want to share the results of the survey.
Permissions and restrictions are something used to control how much access is provided to a particular user or user group. Therefore one must first understand what is the role of a user or a group. Here, you will understand permissions and restrictions through configuring users, user groups and roles. They can either be created using configuration files or web interface. When the Icinga Web 2 is installed a default user with admin access is configured.
The easiest way to get started with Icinga is a single-node installation. If you are new to the Icinga world, here you have a kickstart for installing Icinga 2, Icinga Web 2 and Icinga Director on CentOS 7. With these steps you will have a ready Icinga environment for monitoring your infrastructure.
Learning about the Icinga API can be an eye opening moment for some, and lead to a path of automation and configuration management. But where to start? Well, you can always check out the Icinga API documentation for that. But today, I have an idea for you – I’ll show you how to create a host through the Icinga 2 API.
Getting started using Icinga in a single node setup can already be quite a challenge for new users. Configuring checks on multiple nodes can seem at lot harder. With this blog post I will show you how easy it is to configure hosts and services in such an environment. In this example our cluster will consist of one master and two agents and we will use the command endpoint method to execute checks on our agents.
