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

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?

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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Icinga Wiki introduces French Community Wiki Manager

Just a couple months ago, we introduced the new Icinga Wiki. Now we’d like to introduce our first French Community Wiki Manager – Charles Judith.

Systems administrator at Linagora, Charles is a monitoring expert in open source solutions. He is currently working on an Icinga environment which monitors a fleet of over 150 machines for [...]

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How To: Create Cronk Categories

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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NEW: Icinga Wiki

If you haven’t already noticed, we have recently launched a new Icinga Wiki.

Find it at https://wiki.icinga.org or under ‘Docs’ of the yellow menu bar at the top of the website.

Powered by Altassian Confluence, our new wiki is more powerful and easier to use than before. Previously a small module component of our Redmine [...]

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Upgrade your monitoring from Nagios to Icinga

We try to be compatible with the configuration files of the current Nagios 3.x versions so there should be very little you have to do to upgrade from Nagios 3.x to Icinga 1.2. Assuming you’ve already installed Nagios from source code as described in the Nagios quickstart guide, you can install Icinga quite easily.

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Icinga vs. Nagios –Tabled

It’s coming to a year since our first RC 1.0, and we’re still getting much interest in Icinga. Of course, the age old question arises time again–“What’s the difference?”

We’ve tried it in words, we’ve tried it on YouTube and now we’ve tabled it! Thanks to a clever suggestion made by an Icinga user – [...]

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Icinga development visualized by Gource

Hi there,

Icinga and the fork happened not that long ago but during this period of time a lot of nice things happened.

Providing Icinga Core with integrated IDOUtils supporting MySQL/Postgres/Oracle, fresh docbook format and therefore enhanced documentation, a completely new Icinga API based on IDOUtils and providing data for the new upcoming Icinga Web. [...]

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