Icinga Build / Package Server for Debian & Ubuntu

posted this in Core, Packages on December 30th, 2011 | 4 comments

Though users appreciate the thorough release and testing cycles at packages.debian.org, sometimes the latest Icinga is what you want, come what may. Indeed the current, official stable “squeeze” package for Icinga is a little behind Icinga’s fast release cycle at v1.0.2. Though more up-to-date backports are also available for “squeeze” and “lenny”, these still take [...]

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Christmas Wishes

posted this in Development, Misc on December 23rd, 2011 | Leave a comment

If you were around the blog this time last year, you may have contributed to Icinga’s development in 2011. Indeed, we managed to tick off a few features that were on your wish lists last year. Icinga Wiki and the Icinga Web module loader were products of this; but most importantly an API for core [...]

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Icinga Web 1.6.1 Release

posted this in Development, Releases, Webinterface on December 20th, 2011 | Leave a comment

As the core team released 1.6.1, so do we. Download Icinga Web 1.6.1 on Sourceforge now. This release fixes many database related issues and in particular, resolves a authorisation dispatcher bug that hindered the import user function – cheers to user gpduck for the patch!

We also managed to slip in a new feature that [...]

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SLA Reporting with Added Precision

posted this in Development, IDOUtils on December 14th, 2011 | 1 comment

If you have upgraded to Icinga Web 1.6 you may already be familiar with the new SLA extension in IDOUtils. The optional module is our response to the old niggle from the community that data written to database could be better used. So we have taken the opportunity to add a table to the database [...]

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OSMC 2011 – Snaps & Slides

posted this in Events, Team on December 8th, 2011 | Leave a comment

A week later, we’ve finally recovered from the monitoring madness at the Open Source Monitoring Conference.

The two days were packed with lots of news around Nagios/Icinga best practices, addons and plugins, as well as Shinken and OpenNMS. It was great to hear the latest from Jörg Linge on PNP4Nagios, Michael Medin on NSClient++ and [...]

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Icinga Core 1.6.1 quickfix

posted this in Core, Releases on December 2nd, 2011 | Leave a comment

Icinga Core 1.6.0 introduced a change on the freshness checks for passive check result and actually this lead into an unwanted bug as well as behaviour. Sorry for the inconvenience this caused for those actually having upgraded and experienced that bug. Thanks to Jörg Linge for finding the bug and all the others reporting feedback and [...]

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