Upgrade your monitoring from Nagios to Icinga

posted this in Documentation on November 15th, 2010 | 3 comments

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 IDOUtils – More Improvements Part III

posted this in Core, Development, IDOUtils, Technical on February 24th, 2010 | Leave a comment

One last shot this time for upcoming Icinga 1.0.1 and IDOUtils:

After getting several core patches into the master and also fixing duplicated service/hoststatus updates being sent to the neb module (thanks to Matthieu Kermagoret) there will be more improvements for IDOUtils.

Since the threaded housekeeper is doing fine, it is possible to periodically clean [...]

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Creating custom logos

posted this in Misc on October 8th, 2009 | 2 comments

By default your service map will show your defined services with a question mark logo, this is due to  the default logos used are unknown.gif and unknown.gd2. You can define your own custom logos thus giving a more personalised look. There have been logo packs made for use with Nagios, well theses of course will [...]

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How I have Icinga on my home server

posted this in Misc on October 7th, 2009 | 1 comment

I’ve been using Icinga since the first release was made public back in May this year.  I first heard of the project via Twitter, and as the tweet had a URL posted I simply clicked on it and read all about what Icinga was to be about and the new direction the development team were [...]

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