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Icinga 2 – How to Monitor Windows

Icinga Camp - Amsterdam – 2016-06-28

• Christian Stein• Icinga 2 user• Working for NETWAYS in the

Sales department

WINDOWS: HOW TO?

NSClient++

• Default in plenty Nagios / Icinga setups

• Very easy to handle

Problems

• Network communication not encrypted• One connection for each check

Icinga 2 Agent

• Communication encrypted by SSL (Icinga 2 Protocol)

• One connection for each endpoint• Checks continue locally on network

failure

Problems

• Complex configuration• Requires SSL cert signing for each

node• Icinga 2 config knowledge required

SOLUTIONS

• Icinga 2 Setup Wizard

• Make use of configuration management tools (like Puppet, Chef, Ansible, …)

• Use Windows tools for deployment

Windows tools?

• Domain / Group policies• Chocolatey• PowerShell

Are you serious?

• choco install icinga2 -y

• Done!

• Even better with Puppetpackage { ‚icinga2': ensure => latest,}

• Icinga 2 PowerShell module

Which Module?

• https://github.com/LordHepipud/icinga2-powershell-module

• Installs, updates and signs certificates

Voodoo?

• Let’s get a live demo

DEMO

WHATS NEXT?

• Windows 2016 support• Distinguish from web and local

installer locations

• Possibly automated installation without adding monitoring data

• PowerShell remote execution support

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