Starter Kit: Icinga Virtual Appliance

posted this in Core, Misc on September 22nd, 2010 | 20 comments

Ever wanted to hit a button and have Icinga installed with all its components, MySQL and drivers already configured? Then Christoph from the Core team has created something for you.

With a couple clicks, Icinga Virtual Appliance a.k.a. Icinga Virtual Image will install Icinga Core with a sample config, IDO Utils, API, Web and Docs, [...]

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Icinga reaches Debian

posted this in Packages on April 7th, 2010 | 2 comments

It’s been a while since Christoph Maser joined Team Icinga sharing his knowledge about creating RPMs. Those packages can be found in RPMForge :-)

There were a lot of questions about getting Debian packages for Icinga and finally, we are happy to welcome Alexander Wirt onto Team Icinga!

He is Debian packager for Nagios and [...]

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Icinga IDOUtils – More Improvements Part II

posted this in Core, Development, IDOUtils, Technical on February 17th, 2010 | Leave a comment

As mentioned in the last post, there are other improvements for Icinga and IDOUtils.

This time, I want to give you a deeper look onto database performance and the housekeeping stuff.

As you might know, selecting, updating or even deleting a row from a table heavily depends on the row count. If table size grows [...]

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Playing with Oracle, ocilib and parameter bindings

posted this in Core on November 9th, 2009 | Leave a comment

Hi there,

IDOUtils queries differ quite a lot – some of the are just executed during startup, while others happen all the time. By analyzing the performance on our Oracle database with grid  it came to the top queries just like for

servicechecks, servicestatus hostchecks, hoststatus timedevents programstatus

But how to improve the performance of [...]

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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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