Icinga at the LSPE Meetup: ‘Not Nagios’

posted this in Events on July 29th, 2011 | Leave a comment

Last week I had the pleasure of representing the Icinga Team by attending the San Francisco Bay Area LSPE Meetup (Large-Scale Production Engineering) for their “Not Nagios” event which was held at Yahoo’s URL café at Yahoo HQ in Sunnyvale, CA.

I’d like to thank the LSPE organizers and Yahoo for hosting such a great [...]

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How To: Dual Stack (IPv4 & IPv6) Monitoring with Icinga

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

As of v1.3, Icinga has been capable of dual stack monitoring. Making good use of Icinga Wiki, Michael Friedrich offered his tips on the very simply integration of IPv6 alongside existing IPv4 addresses.

One way is by using two different macros to assign service definitions to the host eg. $HOSTADDRESS$, $HOSTADDRESS6$ and then creating separate [...]

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Poll Question: Man pages for Icinga?

posted this in Documentation on July 15th, 2011 | 1 comment

We have implemented DocBooks as our standard for Icinga’s documentation and were thinking of taking our documentation to man pages too, delivering it with the core. If you think our docs would come in handy for you at installation and in your day-to-day use, let us know in our poll below!

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Sneak Peek into the Icinga Team Meet

posted this in Events, Misc, Team on July 6th, 2011 | Leave a comment

Now that we have all recovered from 72 hours of Icinga, we thought we’d share a few of the developments (and mischief) made at our team meeting in Linux Hotel:

 

Testing Icinga As quality and stability are high on our priorities, we’ve created a subproject especially for Icinga testers. We’re setting up a Jenkins [...]

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