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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. Also lots of other improvements and enhancements.

Writing a historical overview would get boring soon. So we decided to catch up on another Idea: gource.

It’s a small program fetching all commits within our git repositories (core, doc, api, web) and presenting the timeline and changes using rendered pictures.

But that’s not all, it is possible to convert that to nice looking movies.

But there is so much to tell…

Not this time!

Just relax and watch :-)

Icinga Core

Icinga Doc

Icinga API

Icinga Web

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Call for Translators

Currently the Icinga documentation is only available in English & German,  we need to expand this to include many other languages. This is where you (the community) can help out! if you are already a translator for another project or would like to get involved in becoming one, then the Icinga Team welcomes you to the challenge…

The Icinga documentation is currently in XML format, a good application for editing the XML files is called XMLmind the personal edition is free to download. Next get yourself a fresh copy of the current documentation from the Icinga git repositories…

git clone git://git.icinga.org/icinga-doc.git

Once you have downloaded this, navigate your way to either the de or en directory and there you will find all the documentation XML files awaiting you!

So if this sounds like a challenge you would like to participate in, then please contact us at  info@icinga.org to get your translations included into future releases of Icinga…

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Icinga Core 1.0 Stable & Icinga Web 0.9.1 alpha released!

December 16 2009: Today the Icinga Team releases the Icinga Core 1.0. This is a milestone for both the team and the project as a whole. After many months of hard work we are proud to bring you a stable, alternative monitoring solution. This release includes many changes as suggested by the community and in particular the inclusion of Oracle in IDOUtils.

With just as many new improvements, Icinga Web UI has hit release 0.9.1 alpha. We have added a makefile for easier installation and fixed installation permission and cache problems. More changes are still to come, including an ExtJS update to 3.0.3. See below for the full list of new developments across Icinga Core, API, Docs and Web.

As we are always eager to keep the momentum going, we have decided to release the stable Icinga Core alongside the Icinga Web 0.9.1 alpha. These two will converge again in the coming months to a uniform release status. Till then, we hope you like the latest improvements.

Core:

  • Improved IDOUtils with Oracle
    Added prepared statements for most called queries
    Split code into ocilib OR libdbi, to allow oracle to decide which rdbm lib will be used during configuration
  • idoutils: fixed duplicate rows in table system commands, timed events, timed event queue (missing unique keys)
  • idoutils: added upgrade path/sql queries for unique key failure – check docs for more information
  • idoutils: changed default data_processing_options in idomod.cfg
  • idoutils: fixed this version and perl path generation in db install scripts
  • idoutils: fixed save custom variables segfault

Docs:

  • Updates and fixes for quickstart guides
  • New section on upgrading Icinga & IDOUtils
  • Revised section for Icinga Web

API:

  • Restructured DB access for upcoming RDBM support
  • Made several fixes for table prefix, exception handling
  • Started a ‘how-to’ guide for upcoming documentation

Web:

  • Added makefile for easier installation
  • Fixed installation permission and cache problems
  • Modified .htaccess
  • Removed yui
  • Removed php notice warnings (isset, undef vars)
  • In the process of changing API result keys to uppercase
  • In the process of updating ExtJS to 3.0.3
  • Introducing commands through the web

Should you find any issues, please report them to the following links:

As always we look forward to your feedback, so feel free to drop us a comment.

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Online documentation now availabe!

Documentation for both German & English is now available from the following link… Icinga-docs Or by selecting the upper menu as indicated in this image…

documentation

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