How To: Set Up Active Directory Authentication for Icinga New Web

posted this in Documentation, Webinterface on September 30th, 2011 | Leave a comment

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

posted this in Documentation, Technical, Webinterface on July 21st, 2011 | Leave a comment

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

posted this in Documentation, Technical, Webinterface on April 21st, 2011 | Leave a comment

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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How to use Icinga bug report (redmine)

posted this in Misc on April 3rd, 2010 | 2 comments

If you have been looking closely at the icinga front page you would have noticed a new button link on the right hand side of the site called “Report a Bug” below is what we are talking about…

As the code for Icinga is a continuous work in progress there is bound to be the [...]

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