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Happy 2nd Birthday Icinga!

Icinga is 2 years old today. We celebrate a massive year of development progress, community involvement and growth. Just a year ago we were releasing separate versions of Core, API and Web. Since then we have unified Icinga and now stand at version 1.3.1. This includes dual IPv6 / IPv4 support, optimized database connectivity and [...]

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Stopping Traffic with Icinga

There are many ways you can receive your Icinga notifications- via email, SMS, Twitter, instant messaging, or desktop pop ups… the list goes on. Igor Drobot from Hannover, Germany shared his new favourite: a handmade, monitoring traffic light.

Tinkering with an old LED signal tower he found on Ebay, a relay card with corresponding program [...]

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Icinga in Action: Keeping Arthropods Alive at INBio, Costa Rica

Just 1 and 1/2 years old, Icinga is getting around and being used to do all sorts of interesting monitoring things. Icinga friend, Herson Esquivel Vargas shared a bit about how Icinga helps to keep  plant and insect species alive at Costa Rica’s National Biodiversity Institute (INBio).

The private research and biodiversity management [...]

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Vote for Icinga at Linuxquestions

Linuxquestions.org are running their annual poll for the Monitoring Application of the Year again. If you like Icinga, head over and vote for Icinga. The poll will be open until February the 7th, so hurry!

Thank you for your ongoing support.

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Icinga + Android = IcingaDroid

Looking for an Icinga app for your Android? Just out, IcingaDroid could be your answer. The Icinga monitor watches your servers for you and notifies you when something changes. It draws check results from the CGIs, thereby differing to IcingaMobile in its Classic Web approach.  Brought to you by Karl Fischer, a Sys Admin and [...]

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Icinga development visualized by Gource Revisited

Last year, I found gource for visualization of Icinga’s GIT repositories. One of my fellow twitter followers (@crsp) was so passionate about new Icinga Gource episodes – so here they are … including a short Icinga Mobile intro :-)

From last year’s end til now – it’s huge what happened there… Stay tuned for upcoming [...]

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Flashbacks from 2010

As Icinga’s second year is rolling to a close and amidst the festive cheer we’ve had a chance to relive a few proud memories.

2010 marked our first unified, stable release- Icinga 1.2 and the entrance of the stable, new web interface in all its Agavi-based glory. Icinga Mobile also made its debut alongside integrated [...]

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Christmas Wishes

Team Icinga is always curious as to what you really want, really soon… and perhaps even for Christmas. Before we start a new year we’d like to know what’s at the top of your wish list for Icinga in 2011.

If I could only get one Icinga feature for Christmas, [...]

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Icinga introduces… Karolina Hein (Graphic Design and Marketing)

Day job: Head of Administration, NETWAYS. I look after all non technical aspects, supervising the planning and organization of various conferences and training courses such as the OSMC or OSDC. I happen to also be behind all the graphic design such as website, print and event materials.

Which part of Icinga could you put your [...]

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A lesson in Zulu: “Icinga”

You say “Eee-Chingaa”, I say “Aye-Singa”… but how do the Zulus say it?

We consulted a couple Zulu speakers and even received a pronunciation guide from Megan Wells  to help us all out. As she told us:

“The ‘c’ in Icinga is actually a Romanized representation of the Zulu click. The easiest way to approximate the [...]

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