Published by
Michael Friedrich on
29. January 2010 in
API, Core, Development, Documentation, Technical and Webinterface.
Tags: API, Database, Development, Docbook, Documentation, Fork, git, Icinga, IDOUtils, oracle, PostgreSQL, release, team, tracker, web.
Published by
Michael Friedrich on
16. December 2009 in
Releases.
Tags: 1.0, API, Database, Development, Docbook, Documentation, Download, Icinga, IDOUtils, mysql, oracle, release, Support, web, Web 0.9.1 alpha.
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.
Recently work has been started on setting up an installer for the new Icinga-web UI. This is currently available via the git repository located at https://git.icinga.org/index (git clone git://git.icinga.org/icinga-web.git to get a fresh branch) then simply follow the instructions in the text file /doc/install-fromscratch.txt this will talk you through the remainder of the process.
Listed below are the configure options…
./configure --help
`configure' configures this package to adapt to many kinds of systems.
Usage: ./configure [OPTION]... [VAR=VALUE]...
To assign environment variables (e.g., CC, CFLAGS...), specify them as
VAR=VALUE. See below for descriptions of some of the useful variables.
Defaults for the options are specified in brackets.
Configuration:
-h, --help display this help and exit/
--help=short display options specific to this package
--help=recursive display the short help of all the included packages
-V, --version display version information and exit
-q, --quiet, --silent do not print `checking...' messages
--cache-file=FILE cache test results in FILE [disabled]
-C, --config-cache alias for `--cache-file=config.cache'
-n, --no-create do not create output files
--srcdir=DIR find the sources in DIR [configure dir or `..']
Installation directories:
--prefix=PREFIX install architecture-independent files in PREFIX
[/usr/local/icinga-web]
--exec-prefix=EPREFIX install architecture-dependent files in EPREFIX
[PREFIX]
By default, `make install' will install all the files in
`/usr/local/icinga-web/bin', `/usr/local/icinga-web/lib' etc. You can specify
an installation prefix other than `/usr/local/icinga-web' using `--prefix',
for instance `--prefix=$HOME'.
For better control, use the options below.
Fine tuning of the installation directories:
--bindir=DIR user executables [EPREFIX/bin]
--sbindir=DIR system admin executables [EPREFIX/sbin]
--libexecdir=DIR program executables [EPREFIX/libexec]
--sysconfdir=DIR read-only single-machine data [PREFIX/etc]
--sharedstatedir=DIR modifiable architecture-independent data [PREFIX/com]
--localstatedir=DIR modifiable single-machine data [PREFIX/var]
--libdir=DIR object code libraries [EPREFIX/lib]
--includedir=DIR C header files [PREFIX/include]
--oldincludedir=DIR C header files for non-gcc [/usr/include]
--datarootdir=DIR read-only arch.-independent data root [PREFIX/share]
--datadir=DIR read-only architecture-independent data [DATAROOTDIR]
--infodir=DIR info documentation [DATAROOTDIR/info]
--localedir=DIR locale-dependent data [DATAROOTDIR/locale]
--mandir=DIR man documentation [DATAROOTDIR/man]
--docdir=DIR documentation root [DATAROOTDIR/doc/PACKAGE]
--htmldir=DIR html documentation [DOCDIR]
--dvidir=DIR dvi documentation [DOCDIR]
--pdfdir=DIR pdf documentation [DOCDIR]
--psdir=DIR ps documentation [DOCDIR]
Optional Packages:
--with-PACKAGE[=ARG] use PACKAGE [ARG=yes]
--without-PACKAGE do not use PACKAGE (same as --with-PACKAGE=no)
--with-web-user=<user> sets user name to run icinga
--with-web-group=<group> sets group name to run icinga
--with-bin-user=<user> sets user name for common webfiles
--with-bin-group=<group> sets group for common webfiles
Some influential environment variables:
CC C compiler command
CFLAGS C compiler flags
LDFLAGS linker flags, e.g. -L<lib dir> if you have libraries in a
nonstandard directory <lib dir>
LIBS libraries to pass to the linker, e.g. -l<library>
CPPFLAGS C/C++/Objective C preprocessor flags, e.g. -I<include dir> if
you have headers in a nonstandard directory <include dir>
Use these variables to override the choices made by `configure' or to help
it to find libraries and programs with nonstandard names/locations.
Report bugs to the package provider.
So at this stage the installer is just placing the files and setting the permissions for the Icinga-web UI it is not setting up Apache nor checking the necessary prerequisites this still needs to be done manually.
Please report any bug/issues to the Icinga development team at icinga-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Published by
Michael Friedrich on
29. October 2009 in
Development, Misc, Releases and Webinterface.
Tags: API, conference, Database, Development, Icinga, osmc, release, Sourceforge, web.
Sorry for the delay on the release, we had to catch several technical issues next to OSMC.
We decided to split the releases into Icinga Core and Icinga Web. Therefore you will find two several packages to download and install.
The Core contains the Icinga API and IDOUtils which are needed for a functional Web this time. Make sure to download Icinga 1.0 RC1 and install it with IDOUtils for MySQL, the API will be installed automatically in share/icinga-api/
The Icinga Web depends on the API – you have to point the config to the actual install path. There are also several prerequisites and dependencies to resolve, so please catch on the instructions in doc/install-fromscratch.txt and do not hesitate to ask questions on the mailinglists and/or report any issues/bugs on our dev tracker.
Please keep in mind that this is an alpha release and be patient while we are working on future versions! :-)
We just started the day with a great breakfast. Now everybody is set up, connected to the network and we are starting with a git workshop for everybody:
The agenda for today has a couple of task, e.g.:
- multi language documentation support
- quality review of our new web interface
- deployment and installation strategy for api and web interface
- further roadmap after the alpha release
Our wishes go to Michael Friedrich: He is ill and was not able to come. Get well soon.