Stopping Traffic with Icinga

posted this in Cool, Misc on April 28th, 2011 | Leave a comment

There are many ways you can receive your Icinga notifications- via email, SMS, Twitter, instant messaging, or desktop pop ups… the list goes on. Igor Drobot from Hannover, Germany shared his new favourite: a handmade, monitoring traffic light.

Tinkering with an old LED signal tower he found on Ebay, a relay card with corresponding program [...]

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How To: Create Cronk Categories

posted this in Documentation, Technical, Webinterface on April 21st, 2011 | Leave a comment

The new Icinga Web is beloved for its easy to view and easy to customize Cronks. These nifty widgets can be easily customised to show exactly what the user needs, but also easily organised into neat categories.

With the release of v1.3, users could create these categories in a few simple clicks in the new [...]

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Icinga in Action: Keeping Arthropods Alive at INBio, Costa Rica

posted this in Misc on April 14th, 2011 | Leave a comment

Just 1 and 1/2 years old, Icinga is getting around and being used to do all sorts of interesting monitoring things. Icinga friend, Herson Esquivel Vargas shared a bit about how Icinga helps to keep  plant and insect species alive at Costa Rica’s National Biodiversity Institute (INBio).

The private research and biodiversity management [...]

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Icinga moves from GIT to CVS

posted this in Development on April 1st, 2011 | 7 comments

We finally made our decision to step away from GIT, and get back to the origin SCM used by Nagios for a long time – CVS. It will enhance our current development capabilities and allow us to develop even faster with speed of light. The first import is still in progress, you can follow it [...]

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