Ode to Agavi

posted this in API, Misc on July 28th, 2009 | 4 comments

Closing into the 14 day rush to the next Icinga release 0.8.2, we had a moment to reflect on our coding madness. As a developer, the one thing that makes such work easier is the choice of a good framework. And that is why we take our hats off to our trusty Agavi framework.

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Dual Head Development

posted this in Development on July 20th, 2009 | 1 comment

Maybe you’ve already heard the news and are wondering what’s going on.

The development of Nagios NDOUtils was re-activated a few weeks ago and I now will work to support both Nagios in NDOUtils as well as the Icinga Core.

As Icinga benefits through active Nagios development, Nagios will profit through database related development from [...]

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Playing with IDOUtils, libdbi & Oracle

posted this in Core, Development, Technical on July 14th, 2009 | 5 comments

First of all, since I became one of the maintainers for NDOUtils Oracle I’ve been looking forward to commit this project back to the upstream. It is a bit tricky because current code has been merged from NDOUtils 1.4.b8 (partly) and it is using a self written Library for OCI (Oracle Call Interface, liboci). Even [...]

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Engage on the Icinga mailing lists

posted this in Misc on July 12th, 2009 | 2 comments

A lot of the communication around and about Icinga is done on the mailing lists. So whether you are a user of Icinga or you want to engage in the development process, there is a mailing list for you:

Icinga Users

The mailing list for Icinga Users covers normal questions about how to install Icinga, [...]

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Annoying ido2db init script

posted this in Core, Development on July 1st, 2009 | 1 comment

*grmpf* – is just a short word of my actual thinking.

Many people are missing a stable way to start or stop the database daemon, sometimes it doesn’t clean up the socket pipe or you have to handle different command lines to kill it of – quite annoying isn’t it?

I decided to solve this [...]

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