Icinga introduces… Michael Friedrich (Icinga Core and IDOUtils)

posted this in Misc on February 25th, 2010 | 3 comments

Day job: I am working at the Vienna University Computer Center at the Internet Domain Administration department.  My daily work consists of administrating and monitoring DNS services for *.at and the Vienna University. Furthermore I am in charge of several (DNS) Monitoring projects. One of them is the database backend for Icinga Core, named IDOUtils [...]

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Icinga meets Nabaztag!

posted this in Misc on February 25th, 2010 | 3 comments

Now for most of us we would not know what a Nabaztag is right? (yes!) Well a Nabaztag is a robotic rabbit that interfaces into your WiFi network and can be used for a range of clever things! to explain this rabbit better you can see the introductory clip here

Hans Moser has set up [...]

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Icinga IDOUtils – More Improvements Part III

posted this in Core, Development, IDOUtils, Technical on February 24th, 2010 | Leave a comment

One last shot this time for upcoming Icinga 1.0.1 and IDOUtils:

After getting several core patches into the master and also fixing duplicated service/hoststatus updates being sent to the neb module (thanks to Matthieu Kermagoret) there will be more improvements for IDOUtils.

Since the threaded housekeeper is doing fine, it is possible to periodically clean [...]

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Coming soon: Icinga Web 0.9.1 beta new features

posted this in Development, Webinterface on February 22nd, 2010 | 3 comments

With just a few days till release, everything on the Icinga Web timeline is going to plan. To whet your appetite we have a few new features as promised:

Compound commands: Simply check the tick boxes for whichever hosts, services or groups you would like to simultaneously send a command to.

Persistence: Views and filters [...]

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Icinga introduces…

posted this in Misc on February 19th, 2010 | Leave a comment

…the team! Over the coming weeks the Icinga team will be making themselves a little better known. They’ll share a bit on what they do for Icinga, what keeps them busy 9 to 5, their offline alter egos and more. So stay tuned!

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Icinga Core – More Enhancements

posted this in Core, Development, Technical on February 19th, 2010 | 1 comment

First of all – many thanks to Vitali Voroth and DECOIT GmbH and also Bill McGonigle for providing such great stuff and improving Icinga.

So what it’s all about?

As you might know, we are “monitoring” the Nagios world too and recently on the developer mailing list, an interesting patch popped up:

Currently the Icinga [...]

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Icinga chose ocilib as Oracle db layer

posted this in Development, IDOUtils on February 19th, 2010 | Leave a comment

Just to let you know:

Based on my finished Oracle implementation and the last blog post, I’ve dropped Vincent Rogier, developer of ocilib a few lines about my work experience with ocilib.

http://orclib.sourceforge.net/2010/02/icinga-chose-ocilib-as-oracle-db-layer/

This small diary entry describes the way how Icinga and ocilib happened :-)

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Icinga IDOUtils – More Improvements Part II

posted this in Core, Development, IDOUtils, Technical on February 17th, 2010 | Leave a comment

As mentioned in the last post, there are other improvements for Icinga and IDOUtils.

This time, I want to give you a deeper look onto database performance and the housekeeping stuff.

As you might know, selecting, updating or even deleting a row from a table heavily depends on the row count. If table size grows [...]

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Icinga IDOUtils – More improvements Part I

posted this in Core, Development, IDOUtils, Misc, Technical on February 15th, 2010 | 1 comment

It’s been a while since I made several changes to the initial Oracle implementation in Icinga IDOUtils. Code has been split, first start of using prepared statements and binded params with ocilib and some other changes to the code.

In the last few weeks I have been investigating a lot on how to implement more [...]

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