Icinga Reporting - For Icinga-Web & Classic UI Users

In version 1.5, we released an Icinga Reporting Cronk pre-installed in the Icinga-Web interface. Though Icinga-Web users maybe happy, perhaps Icinga Classic users might appreciate the ability to generate flash looking reports too. Good news is, Icinga Reporting can also be used as an add-on to the JasperReports interface to edit, generate and send reports using [...]

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Team Icinga welcomes…

three more monitoring aficionados to the team!

 

Gunnar Beutner – Core Working behind the scenes on cool projects the likes of IDOUtils’ SLA reporting extension and IcingaMQ, Gunnar has been with us as of June 2011 and has since become a bit of a database specialist.

 

David Gerbec – Quality Assurance & VM On [...]

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Christmas Wishes

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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Addons for Icinga: Configuration Interfaces & Tools

Every now and again, admins can make their life easier. Below are just a couple configuration helpers that we know to work well with Icinga. All are open source and free to download!

 

This PHP based tool saves data to MySQL database from which it exports the finished configuration files via local file or remote [...]

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Do You Provide Support for Icinga?

As Icinga grows as a project, so too does our user base and the likelihood of people looking for support. There are plenty of channels available to get cheerful assistance from the Icinga / Nagios community. Nevertheless there are some who prefer to pay professionals to take on projects. So to do everyone a favor, [...]

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ICINGA introduces… Rune Darrud, Icinga Core

Day job:  IT consultant at a municipality in Norway My main responsibilities include monitoring everything (with Icinga!), device management through Novell ZENworks Configuration Management and VMware infrastructure.

Which part of Icinga could you put your name on? The Classic UI‘s multi-selection dropdown menu and the final Icinga releases generally. I test all parts of each [...]

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Icinga Tutorial in iX Magazine

This month, Icinga has been featured in the German language iX Magazine. In a 3 part series, Sebastian Hetze offers readers a comprehensive introduction to Icinga.

Part 1 in the October edition, titled “Die Server stets im Blick” gives an overview of Icinga and SNMP monitoring, common plugins and a basic configuration.

Part 2 in [...]

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How To: Set Up Active Directory Authentication for Icinga New Web

Icinga New Web was always designed with the larger organisation in mind. Often in such networks, Active Directory is used to manage the authentication and authorization of many users. So it makes sense to integrate the monitoring interface into this existing infrastructure. Luckily, it is very easy to set up Active Directory authentication in Icinga [...]

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Team Icinga to Speak at OSMC 2011

For the 3rd time, Icinga will present at the Open Source Monitoring Conference on 29 – 30 November. Held in Nuremberg, Germany, the event is in its 6th year and packs a good monitoring-focused program.

We’re excited to be on the same speaker roll as some other big names in the open source monitoring scene, [...]

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Icinga on Android Thanks to aNag

A while ago, we introduced IcingaDroid as an Icinga app for Android devices. Most recently our attention has been brought to another cool Icinga compatible app – aNag.

Essentially a monitor that keeps an eye on your servers and notifies you of important changes, aNag stands out for its ability to handle multiple instances. It [...]

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