About icinga web 2 icinga web 2 is a powerful php framework for web applications that comes in a clean and reduced design. Its similar to other php opcode cachers, such as eaccelerator and xcache. First, download the icinga developers package signing key and add it to the apt system. Icinga is an open source monitoring and metric solution system. Install icinga on centosrhel fedora 0 icinga is an enterprise grade open source monitoring system which keeps watch over networks and any conceivable network resource, notifies the user of errors and recoveries and generates performance data for reporting. Cant send external icinga command to the local com. It provides a way to start your infrastructure monitoring and includes. How to install icinga2 monitoring tool on ubuntu 18. See some of the awesome features present in the web gui and api, available on any operating system. Icinga camp san francisco 2017 icinga director managing your. The core of our monitoring platform with a powerful configuration language and rest api.
Download the latest icinga api from git snapshot as seen in the icinga. Mar 26, 2020 we now continue to the installation of icinga web 2, a web interface for icinga 2, where you can monitor all your servers. During installation, the question arises of using the mysql module. Nagios will only read the first 4 kb of data that a plugin returns. How to setup icinga web 2 on centos 8 rhel 8 itzgeek. After installing icinga 2, start the icinga 2 service and check the status of the daemon. Icinga 2 master server installation icinga server and. This article will describe how to install them on a centos 7 server. In their second year, icinga celebrated their 100,000th download, integrated the icinga api component into icinga web. Mar 15, 2020 icinga 2 is a free and opensource monitoring tool for monitoring servers, network resources. Here, we will see how to install icinga web 2 centos 8 rhel 8. Its an api showing icinga runtime objects, not your config objects.
It will help you to deploy your configuration, regardless of whether you are using a single node icinga installation or a distributed setup with multiple masters and satellites. Icinga 2 needs a web server and php installed on the hosting server. Devops stack exchange is a question and answer site for software engineers working on automated testing, continuous delivery, service integration and monitoring, and building sdlc infrastructure. This is done in order to prevent runaway plugins from dumping megs or gigs of data back to nagios. Icinga has a php api, therefore we need php support if you want to use that api. We will cover some basic configuration, so you will be able to monitor network services and host resources via the web interface.
Aug 29, 2016 we can install icinga web 2 directly from icinga repository which we already added in our previous article for installing icinga 2 also read adding icinga2 remote linux host. Problem creating host template with director icinga. The next chapter provides a quick overview of how you can use the api. It is strongly recommended to have one of these installed to speed up your php page. If you are using vagrant, dont use the default machine and create a specific machine with a name, to have a valid hostname. Tried using the examples from icinga documentation. You can run the cli command icinga2 api setup to enable the api feature and set. How to setup monitoring using dashing icinga2 dashboard. The following example uses php and its curl library.
Icinga reporting is the central component for reporting related functionality in the monitoring web frontend and framework icinga web 2. How to use icinga to monitor your servers and services on. If you prefer to set up the api manually, you will have to perform the following steps. To use this client simply add it to your package requirements with composer. Our official icinga repositories provide the most recent packages for all leading operating systems. From my perspectives puppeticinga2 doesnt have the conf. Check out our official repositories and those maintained by our lovely community.
But when i try to access the web frontend, i get the following. Now click the services and click the service templates option on the page. How to add hosts to icinga2 using the icinga director. How to install icinga 2 on centos 8 rhel 8 itzgeek. Find more operating systems at the community respositories. Nagiosicinga mysql database integration stephen fritz on. Icinga is a resilient, open source monitoring and metric solution system. A module is loaded and that grads the process data and passes it to a daemon called npcd. Learn how to kickstart your icinga installation and how to monitor your it infrastructure. To create a new service template, click the add button. Jun 03, 2017 default time zone configured for php in the php.
This 4 kb output limit is fairly easy to change if you need. Apc is a free and open php opcode cacher for caching and optimizing php intermediate code. If you are encountering timeouts using the vmware perl sdk, check this blog entry. The additional package icingacli is necessary on rpm based systems which will help to built the web interface. The problem unable to authenticate, please check your api credentials appears when i try to run the import.
If you experience any issues with the packages, please report them here. Nagios xi also includes graphs and reports, customizable dashboards and views, an integrated db, a backend api, multitenancy, and many other advanced features that will make it much quicker and easier to use, and provide a complete monitoring, alerting, graphing, and reporting solution. When we wanted to implement templating support, api support for templates was on the roadmap for the next icinga2 release, so we waited. We will then install the software with aptget and run through a few configuration screens to set up icingas database backend. How to install icinga 2 and icinga web 2 on centos 7 vultr. Enable the api feature icinga2 feature enable api create an apiuser object for authentication. Its fast, responsive, accessible and easily extensible with modules. Jul 01, 2017 the goal is to setup icinga2, icinga web, icinga director and to monitor a few hosts. Icinga 2 is a popular open source network resource monitoring system, and icinga web 2 is a web interface for icinga 2. Unable to authenticate, please check your api credentials. The additional package libapache2mod php is necessary on ubuntu to make icinga web 2 working outofthebox if you arent sure or dont care about php fpm.
Icinga web 2 installation and configuration on linux. In deb based systems, the icingacli binary is included in. How to schedule a downtime in icinga2 by using icingaapi. We have now a working icinga2 instance, so we can continue with dashing setup. Nagios network monitoring software is enterprise server monitoring. The timestamp where a scriptprocess started its execution. So when we decided to fork, we set our priorities to offer the database flexibility the community had been asking for, introduce a php based interface as was promised by nagios, and some way of making addon developers lives easier at first this was the icinga api. Nconf is a php based webtool for configuring the nagios monitoring software. It provides an intuitive user interface for monitoring with icinga 2. The director aims to be your new favourite icinga config deployment tool. This is a simple api client for icinga2 written in php. Service check with api in icinga2 devops stack exchange. Jan 15, 2018 install icinga 2 monitoring instance with webinterface.
Which means we had to reimplement templating outside of icinga, with all the scaling problems that come. With icinga 2, you can configure alert on outages and able to generate the performance data. How to install icinga2 and icingaweb2 sleeplessbeastie. Chocolatey is trusted by businesses to manage software deployments. Dashing icinga2 is an web application implementation on the dashing framework, which is based on sinatra dialect that goes on top of ruby and is focused quick web application development with little effort. Oct 21, 2015 how to setup icinga web 2 on centos 7. Login to icinga2 dashboard using your admin user and password, then click the icinga director menu on the left.
Plugins can be scripts shell, python, perl, ruby, php, etc. Icinga web 2 is to use apache as webserver in combination with phpfpm. The pnp use flag for icingaweb pulls in pnp4nagios bulk mode with npcdmod this means minimal extra configuration within icinga. However, once you get over that initial hump its a pleasure to work with and a great community of which i enjoy participation. Plugins follow the plugin api specification which is enriched with examples and also code. In the future it will be capable of writing to icinga2 too. Icinga, like nagios, has a large learning curve like any large piece of software designed to manage company resources on a large scale. Icinga configuration for nginx on debian wheezyubuntu 11. Beware, it is a lengthy article, but the whole process is quite simple, so you should get grasp of it after first execution. Icinga offers a web interface for users to view monitoring results and send commands to the icinga core, called icinga web also referred to as new web is the projects agavi and php based, web 2. Icingabeat is an elastic beat that fetches data from the icinga 2 api and sends it to elasticsearch or logstash. Icinga2 upcoming api for icinga2 linkedin slideshare. Im searching for a way to schedule a downtime in icinga2 with a groovy script.
Install icinga web 2 install php and php extensions. Chocolatey is software management automation for windows that wraps installers, executables, zips, and scripts into compiled packages. Install icinga 2 and the icinga 2 mysql module to access the mariadb database. Icinga 2 configuration dsl apply, conditions, functions. Icinga has templates, but you cant create or update them through the api.
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