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Icinga Web 1.6.1 Release

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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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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Icinga Web 1.5.2 released

Just last week the core team released 1.5.1, and now as promised here is Icinga Web 1.5.2, ready for download. This version was mainly to resolve bugs, but we did manage to slip a couple new features in too:

Fixes – IE Java script fixes – Re-added info icons (Lazy loading, Active, Passive, Notifications [...]

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NEW: Icinga Reporting Cronk

Just last week we released version 1.5 with a standout new feature: Icinga Reporting in the New Web. Now you can view your SLA reports, host and service statuses all in the same place.

Essentially a Cronk pre-installed in the new web interface, Icinga Reporting consists of two tabs – ‘(On The Fly) Reporting’ and [...]

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Farewell Icinga API

In the days leading up to the v1.5 release, we bid our Icinga API goodbye and usher in a new API and Web concept.

You may ask yourself, what was this API anyway? Indeed, if you weren’t developing or adapting extensions for the new web interface, you wouldn’t have had much contact with this important [...]

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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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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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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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Streamed: Icinga at the OSMC 2010 online

Compliments of Linux Magazin, a streamed video of our presentation at the Open Source Monitoring Conference is now available for all to view.  October 2010, Bernd stepped up to the mic on behalf Michael F, Lara, Marius, Ricardo, Jannis, Karo and Scott who were all there (on/off stage, calling in from Oz) to represent the [...]

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Icinga 1.2 unified stable released!

Live from OSMC in Nuremberg – we did it! Icinga 1.2 hits the next level of opensource monitoring!

Bringing you the latest Icinga release – unified version 1.2 for core, classic ui, idoutils, docs, api and web :-)

New Icinga-Web features long awaited PNP4Nagios Integration (have a look in etc/contrib/) and missing comments integrated into [...]

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