Icinga marches on with the release version 1.0.1 and a heap of improvements to boot:
Core 1.0.1: If you haven’t been keeping up with Michael F’s updates, the Core team has been making a whole heap of improvements in IDOUtils with optimized indexes and housekeeping, oracle enhancements and two fantastic new features from the community – cheers to Vitali Voroth, DECOIT GmbH for his escalation condition patch and Bill McGonigle for his service_check_timeout_state suggestions! The list goes on, so check out the changelog for more info.
Docs 1.0.1: The Docs team has kept up to speed with new help topics on escalation conditions, using Oracle as the RDBM and of course how to upgrade it for Icinga Core 1.0.1.
Web 0.9.1 beta: As previously hinted, the Web team has developed a bunch of new features including compound commands, status icons, built in persistence and even more flexible user settings.
So click on that download button on the right to check it out for yourself – and don’t forget to give us your feedback in the comments or issues lists!
Hello from the Open Source Expo! On the second day of the second Open Source Expo 09 in Karlsruhe, we have found a few moments to report back live from our booth.
So far, there has been a steady flow of visitors and a good response – we even got into the limelight to make a presentation on the Open Stage yesterday. Cheers to Julian for coming in to help out on the microphone and promote Icinga a bit. He spoke on open source monitoring and where Icinga and Nagios fit in.
With over 700 visitors, this year’s Expo is focused on solutions for industry and the latest technologies out of the community. So Icinga fits in well, and we are pretty excited to present next to big names the likes of Ruby on Rails, OpenSUSE, OpenStreetMap, and many others.
We heard the call and we answered: Icinga is out with PostgreSQL support with working queries, sequences and all. Good news for users who have been looking for a Nagios based open source monitoring system which has database flexibility for not just MySQL but also Postgres. A big hand to Michael and Hendrik!
Applause should also go to Lara and Wolfgang for their hard work on the Icinga documentation, as we also have the first edition out in Docbook format.
A big release before the first Alpha in October, we hope you like it and share your thoughts with us. This version’s proof that your ideas count.
After the last paparazzi shots, we thought we’d seen it all. But no, Icinga now has a Facebook fan page so get on board quick with a few pompoms.
Well ok, it was us.:-)
As promised, version 0.8.2 is out and ready for download. Aside from fixing a few bugs in ido2db and the function “make fullinstall” the current IDOUtils now also supports long_output. Additionally, for accelerated development, we’ve also had a go at some of the pending Nagios patches, so this version should be up to speed.
Since supporting the hot wanted other databases is a harder nut we thought it would be, we weren’t able to support PostgreSQL in this release as we hoped to but Michael is on a very good way to handle the database dependent SQL queries. May be we are able to give you an interim release before the next big 0.8.3.
As a consolation gift we have integrated the Icinga PHP API for the first time. The PHP API should be installed with a normal ‘make install’.
Feel free to test the search bar and give us feedback about that.
The next release is planned for 2 September, but in the meantime we look forward to the feedback!
Just on Tuesday, Icinga made its first on stage appearance at the Nagios Community Workshop in Kassel. Hendrik introduced Icinga in front of a crowded room, supported by an almost complete Icinga team. From introducing the team members and their respective project roles to the details of Icinga’s core, IDO and libdbi database, the presentation was well received. So well in fact, that we made our first Icinga fanshirt sighting. Cheers to Wolfgang:
Beyond his merchandising contributions, Wolfgang is particularly active in Icinga documentation which was announced to be available in Docbook for ease of translation. Much to our delight were the offers of translation assistance and great suggestions in the Q&A for a SOAP, REST or JSON interface integration which can be queried by other applications. To all we will keep updated with our mailing list.
Finally, Hendrik let on that the Icinga core was almost finished with the API about 75% of the way there, on target for the October release. All in all, the Kassel workshop was fantastic and Icinga survived without a hint of stage fright. Well ok, maybe a little :-)
