Icinga reaches Debian

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 III

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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Icinga IDOUtils – More Improvements Part II

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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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. [...]

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Fixes for Icinga IDOUtils MySQL

Hi there,

just wanted to give you some updates regarding several fixes for Icinga IDOUtils. There were reports about doubled rows within several tables, where data only gets inserted and not updated. During my analysis it came up that there are several mistaken unique constraint definitions within the table creation for MySQL.

The unique constraint [...]

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Playing with Oracle, ocilib and parameter bindings

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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Icinga IDOUtils will support Oracle RDBM in 1.0 RC

Hi there,

work was not getting better and getting Oracle to work was on hold. So I decided to push a night of coding after I had prepared the MERGE queries.

And yes, it was successful – initial support for Oracle is done!

Oracle driver requirements

You”ll catch the problems with libdbi and Oracle in [...]

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Feel free to contribute

Like Hendrik promised yesterday we want to open our tracking-system to the public, to give ”everybody” a chance to contribute and send a patch- or featurerequest.

This is done now and you can reach the tracker on our development-platform. All steps needed for issue creation are documented in our development-wiki.

Feel free to send us your feedback, [...]

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