Icinga @OSMC 2013

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CURRENT STATE OF ICINGA OSMC 2013 | NUREMBERG

23 OCTOBER - TEAM ICINGA

DEV. WIKI. BLOG. DOC. | WWW.ICINGA.ORG

• Introduction

• Tools & Platform

• Icinga project update

• New in Icinga 1.x

• Icinga 2

• Wrap up

• What‘s next

• Questions & Answers

Agenda

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INTRODUCTION


About Icinga

• Forked from Nagios in April 2009

• Over 350,000 downloads until now (128,000 in 2011)

• Different teams with independent responsibilities

– Icinga Core

– Icinga Packaging

– Icinga Web & Reporting

– Icinga Q&A & Docs

– Icinga VMs

– Icinga Community

• 24 “active” members on the team – Still searching!

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Icinga Team

Core Packaging

Web & Reporting Docs & QA VMs

Community

We want you!

TOOLS & PLATFORM


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TOOLS AND PLATFORM

Icinga Quality, Testing and Community Support

Website and Open Source Ticketing System

Icinga Core

C-based source

MySQL, PostgreSQL and Oracle

Icinga Reports

based on Jasper

Reports

Icinga Doc

based on

DocBook in

English and

German

Icinga Web

based on PHP

using Sencha,

Agavi MVC

IDOUTILS

NRPE and NSCA

Mobile


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Architecture

IDO Database

Icinga Web (with DB abstraction layer) Icinga Core

IDOUtils

Classic UI REST API Mobile

Icinga Reporting

SOAP Provider

ICINGA PROJECT UPDATE


Statistics - Releases & Events

• Releases

– 1.8.x

– 1.9

– 1.9.x

– 1.10

• Events

– GUUG (February)

– FlossUK in Newcastle (March)

– Chemnitzer LinuxTage (March)

– 4th Anniversary (May)

– Linux Hotel Essen - Team-Meetup (September)

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Statistics – Solved issues per year

0

200

400

600

800

1000

1200

1400

2009 2010 2011 2012 2013

150

656

996 1085

1225

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Continuous Integration

• Jenkins Server – build.icinga.org


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Operating System Support

• Global package repository – packages.icinga.org

• Snapshot and release builds

• Builds for major platforms

– RHEL

– SLES

– Fedora

– OpenSuse

– Debian

• Supplement (not replacement) for official repos like

RepoForge or Debian Backports


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Documentation

• We have DocBook


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Documentation – Future

• DocBook Pros

– You can generate hundreds of different formats out of one

Docbook

• DocBook Cons

– We don’t!

– Updating DocBook files is time-consuming and

complicated

– It sucks!

• Switch from DocBook to Markdown

• Icinga 2 doc will be available in Markdown from day one

• We‘ll migrate the 1.x documentation to Markdown


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Documentation – Markdown

• How it will look like

### Installation Paths

By default Icinga 2 uses the following files and directories:

Path | Description

------------------------|------------------------------------

/etc/icinga2 | Contains Icinga 2 configuration files.

/etc/init.d/icinga2 | The Icinga 2 init script.

/usr/share/doc/icinga2 | Documentation files that come with Icinga 2.

/usr/share/icinga2/itl | The Icinga Template Library.

/var/run/icinga2 | PID file.

...

NEW IN ICINGA 1.x


Changes in Icinga 1.9 and 1.10

• Icinga Core

– Add check source to check result / status data

– Chance to add more than one IDO module to Core

– Performance improvements

• Classic UI

– Added filter modification

– New live search

– Custom variables in extended info

– Standalone version available

• IDO

– Performance improvements using transactions and bulk

updates

– Config option for custom variable dump

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Changes in Icinga Web 1.10

• Updated cronk list design in menu

– New icon design

– New categories

• Additional unhandled views in updated categories

• Updated instance cronk

• State type as default in all cronks

• Deletion of all comments for service or host

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Demo – Icinga 1.x

DEMO

ICINGA 2


Icinga 2 - Overview

• Based on C++ and Boost

– Supports all major *NIX and Windows platforms

• Different config format

– there is a conversion script!

• Included cluster stack

• Functions by component

• i2enfeature/i2disfeature

• Components can run anywhere in a cluster

• MySQL and Livestatus support included

• Packages and Vagrant Box available now!

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Icinga 2 – Components

• Checker

• Cluster

• Compat

– Command Pipe

– Compat Log

– Status.dat

• Livestatus

• Perfdata

• Notification

• db_ido_mysql

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Icinga 2 – Major config differences

• There is no host check -> Use the check attribute

• Global macros

• Contact and Contactgroup -> User and UserGroup

– no notification-specific attributes for services

-> Notification Object

• Freely definable macros for commands define command { command_name ping4 command_line $USER1$/check_ping -H $HOSTADDRESS$ -w $ARG1$ -c $ARG2$ -p 5 } define service { use local-service host_name localhost service_description PING check_command ping4!100.0,20%!500.0,60% }

object CheckCommand "ping4" { command = "$plugindir$/check_ping -H $HOSTADDRESS$ -w $wrta$,$wpl%$ -c $crta$,$cpl%$", macros = { wrta = 100, wpl = 20, crta = 500, cpl = 60 } } object Host ”localhost" { services[“PING“] = { check_command = “ping4”, //macros[“wrta”] = 250 } }

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Icinga 2 – Major config differences

• New notification object

– Icinga 1

– Icinga 2

• No fixed macro for IP address(es)

• Escalations act as notification with defined begin and end

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service -> (contact, contactgroup) -> notification command

notification_options w,u,c,r,f,s

service -> notification -> notificationCommand -> user, userGroup notification_state_filter = (StateFilterWarning | StateFilterUnknown | StateFilterCritical), notification_type_filter = (NotificationProblem | NotificationRecovery | NotificationFlappingStart | NotificationFlappingEnd | NotificationDowntimeStart | NotificationDowntimeEnd | NotificationDowntimeRemoved)

start = notification start + (notification_interval * first_notification) end = notification start + (notification_interval * last_notification)


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Icinga 2 – Cluster

• Cluster-based communication using SSL

• Bidirectional connections supported

• Domain support for logic splits in the configuration

• Hash-based load distribution

• “binlog” like retention for monitoring events and messages

• Distributed components throughout the cluster

compat

replication

perfdata livestatus

checker

ido

checker Icinga2

notification

Icinga2

IDO Database


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Demo – Icinga 2

DEMO


Icinga 2 – What’s next

• Business Process Integration

– Coming later this year

– Basic user story in dev-tracker

– Rule based configuration

– Nested business project objects

– Different levels and priorities

– Expression/Wildcard/RegExp

• Puppet Modules

• More Documentation

• See Roadmap!

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WHAT ELSE?


Icinga Web 2

Different Interfaces for Icinga

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Icinga Web Icinga Classic Icinga Mobile

Thruk, …


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Why another Interface

• We want a solution for all platforms

– Simple and lightweight

– Responsive for desktop, tablet, phone

• Icinga-Classic doesn’t fit enterprise needs

• Icinga-Web is hard to extend

• CLI-Support for cronjobs, plugins and shell

• Support for multiple backends

• All existing versions will be in active maintenance!


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Icinga Web 2

• Lightweight like Icinga classic and flexible like Icinga Web

• Easy to extend and embed into other projects

• Support for multiple backends

– Status.dat

– Database

– Livestatus

• Supports multiple backends simultaneously, as failover

backend

• Supports Icinga 1.x and Icinga 2.x

• Responsive actions

• FAST!


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Demo – Icinga Web 2

DEMO


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What else?


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WRAP UP


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TOOLS AND PLATFORM - NOW



Icinga Core

C-based source

MySQL, PostgreSQL and Oracle

Icinga Reports

based on Jasper

Reports

Icinga Doc

based on

DocBook in

English and

German

Icinga Web

based on PHP

using Sencha,

Agavi MVC

IDOUTILS

NRPE and NSCA

Mobile


Icinga Core

C-based source

MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle

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TOOLS AND PLATFORM - FUTURE



Icinga Reports

based on Jasper

Reports

Icinga Doc

based on

Markdown

IDOUTILS

Icinga 2

C++-based source with

multiple components

3rd Party Tools Icinga 2 Web Based on PHP / responsive design

Icinga Web based on PHP using ExtJS, Agavi MVC

IDO Livestatus Cluster …

WHAT’S NEXT


Roadmap

• Roadmap Icinga

– https://dev.icinga.org/projects/icinga-

development/roadmap

• Roadmap Icinga 2

– https://dev.icinga.org/projects/i2/roadmap

• Roadmap Icinga 2 Web

– https://dev.icinga.org/projects/icinga-2-web/roadmap

• Roadmap based on

– Bugs

– Sponsors

– Feedback (feedback.icinga.org, Twitter, etc.)

– Team members’ interests

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Releases & Events

• Releases Icinga & Web

– 1.11 (Spring)

– 1.12 (Fall)

• Releases Icinga 2

– 0.0.3 (Today ?)

– 0.0.4 (2013)

– Many new releases in 2014

• Events

– DevOps Days – London (November)

– FlossUK 2014 – Brighton (March)

– CeBIT 2014 (March)

– Chemnitzer LinuxTage (March)

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QUESTIONS & ANSWERS

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Web www.icinga.org

Development dev.icinga.org

Feedback feedback.icinga.org

Wiki wiki.icinga.org

Support support.icinga.org

Twitter twitter.com/icinga

Facebook facebook.com/icinga

……..

Everywhere!

? Questions & Answers

Technology

Icinga @OSMC 2013