an important update regarding our lovely community & support platform:

The previously called “Nagios/Icinga Portal” will now be moved to “Monitoring Portal” which requires your bookmarks to be updated to the new domain as well:

http://www.monitoring-portal.org

Background is that Nagios LLC is claiming the trademark on the domain “nagios-portal.org”. [...]]]> Dear community members,

an important update regarding our lovely community & support platform:

The previously called “Nagios/Icinga Portal” will now be moved to “Monitoring Portal” which requires your bookmarks to be updated to the new domain as well:

http://www.monitoring-portal.org

Background is that Nagios LLC is claiming the trademark on the domain “nagios-portal.org”. More information can be found here.

Please make sure to update your bookmarks and join the lively community :-)

Hope to see you around!

Kind regards,
Michael

In order to keep things safe, we’ve replaced the existing [...]]]> If you were having troubles on installing Icinga Reporting, sorry – our bad. During package build, a faulty configure was added and therefore causing the installer to fail. Thanks to our lovely community, the issue was identified and already fixed – thanks tuxifier and formorer!

In order to keep things safe, we’ve replaced the existing broken tar.gz with the new fixed tarball available on sourceforge as usual.

Sorry for the inconvenience!

PS: For those having aclocal, autoconf and automake in place, run the following commands as quickfix on the previous tarball:

$ rm configure ; aclocal ; autoconf

Note: Upon upgrading, please update your configurations as we have:

Core & Classic: Minimised event looping when rescheduling checks, flexible downtime calculations, status map and log improvements. See the Core, Classic & IDOUtils [...]]]> Icinga 1.7 Beta is now out for download and ready for you to test. Help us make sure there are no bugs that we’ve missed. In particular, keep an eye out for:

Core & Classic: Minimised event looping when rescheduling checks, flexible downtime calculations, status map and log improvements. See the Core, Classic & IDOUtils change log for more details.

IDOUtils: MySQL varchar changed to text, idomod and neb module adjustments, as well as fixes to lob handling in Oracle and PostgreSQL timestamps.

Web: New global master config cronk for appkit_admins, new options for saving custom cronks, and many calculations (check execution time, problem duration, performance info) now brought in line with Core & Classic UI algorithms. See Web change log for more.

NOTE: When you upgrade, be sure to update your configs as we have moved and renamed directories:

• moved bindir/idomod.o to libdir/idomod.so
• moved /var/icinga to /var/spool/icinga in icinga.spec (upgrade safe)
• renamed icinga-idoutils rpm to icinga-idoutils-libdbi-mysql|pgsql in icinga.spec
• –enable-libtap is deprecated, make test now works out-of-the-box with rewritten tests

As usual, please share any bugs you might find on our development tracker. Tips on how to, can be found in our wiki and FAQ.

Thanks for helping us make sure the coming 1.7 release is a good one!

In this past year we’ve bid farewell to the Icinga API, replacing the database API with a Doctrine abstraction layer. Classic UI got a tactical overview header while Icinga Web an [...]]]> Icinga turns 3 years old today and what better birthday surprise could there be, than to hit the 100,000th download mark!

In this past year we’ve bid farewell to the Icinga API, replacing the database API with a Doctrine abstraction layer. Classic UI got a tactical overview header while Icinga Web an optional SLA extension for greater reporting precision. This was a small triumph of ours, in response to the old grumble in the community to better use data written to the database.

On the side, we’ve also added a build/package server for Debian and Ubuntu users as well as source snapshots for testers, even refurbished the website and added a merchandise shop.

Behind all this, our team has added a few extra faces from the USA, UK, Germany, Australia and Slovenia. They include the first graduates from this year’s Icinga Padawan program, who have extended our Icinga Virtual Appliances to Debian, OpenSUSE and CentOS as well as open our official Freenode IRC group.

Alongside these developments we have seen the number of self-proclaimed Icinga users double in just this last year. Organisations range in industry and size, from universities and healthcare providers to automotive and construction; large retailers the likes of Müller and European governmental agencies.

The last three years have been an amazing accomplishment for us and was only possible with the support of our Icinga friends. For every mailing list and forum support post, wiki entry, bug report and feature request, translation and tweet – we say thank you!

3 Years in a Clip

In celebration, Core developer Michael F has created a couple of Gource clips for you to see our last 3 years of development:

Icinga Core

Click here to view the embedded video.

Icinga Web

Click here to view the embedded video.

Icinga Docs

Click here to view the embedded video.

Icinga Reporting

Click here to view the embedded video.

For those wondering how he did it – see Michael’s wiki guide on using Gource.

Held at the FH Technikum Wien from 3 – 5 May, the program offers 3 tracks of talks covering open source from various perspectives – for professionals, students, the cloud, [...]]]> Today marks the start of Linux Week Vienna 2012, and for the first time, a bunch of us from Team Icinga is there to represent.

Held at the FH Technikum Wien from 3 – 5 May, the program offers 3 tracks of talks covering open source from various perspectives – for professionals, students, the cloud, design and even Drupal enthusiasts.

We’ll be in lecture hall (HS 1.05) at 3pm today to introduce our project and all the latest that has been happening behind the development curtains.

So if you happen to be in town, come by and say hello!

With it you could view host group summaries, host and service statuses, (de)activate checks [...]]]> Team Icinga is toying with the idea of branching away from Nagios’ WAP interface. For those unfamiliar with it, the WAP interface was designed to display network status details on small LCD screens for mobiles before the advent of the smartphone.

With it you could view host group summaries, host and service statuses, (de)activate checks and notifications as well as acknowledge problems – all from your internet-enabled Nokia 6100.

Sadly since forking 3 years ago, we have not heard a single word on it from users, let alone bug reports or feature requests.

Combined with the fact that Icinga Mobile, Android and iOS apps are very cool – we’re thinking about removing WAP functionality from the CGIs, and investing our efforts elsewhere. But just to be sure, we thought we’d check with you – our Icinga user and developer community first:

[poll id="10"]

Till now, those who have identified a bug can follow its progress [...]]]> Icinga development is a constant work in progress. In the lead up to our major releases every couple of months, a lot of bug fixes and new features are integrated into our stable Git version, one by one, behind the scenes.

Till now, those who have identified a bug can follow its progress on our development tracker and see when it has been resolved. They can then watch our Git to see when its patch has been integrated into the stable tree and clone the source package to enjoy their bug-fixed version before the official release. For particularly niggling bugs, this strategy is a winner.

However, for a more convenient alternative to cloning the corresponding git repositories, we are now automatically building nightly source packages (thanks to Jenkins) for both Icinga Core and Web, which can be downloaded from our build server in various flavours:

http://build.icinga.org/snapshots/

Latest Icinga Core and checksum

Older Icinga Core and checksum

Latest Icinga Web

Older Icinga Web

Please note: These snapshots are essentially our stable release (as available on Sourceforge) with the latest bug fixes accumulated since the last release. Though patches have usually been tested in specific environments, the packages may be unstable under different circumstances –  so we recommend them for test as opposed to production environments.

For more information see our source snapshots wiki page, and just like any of our packages – download, install and share your feedback on the dev tracker. Enjoy!

One of the few clients, that come equipped with PNP4Nagios support and a log viewer, TiNag offers a nice breadth of functionality. Besides viewing host and service states, the usual commands [...]]]> With version 2.3.10 released just last week, we now turn our attention to TiNag on our journey through popular Android clients for Icinga and Nagios.

One of the few clients, that come equipped with PNP4Nagios support and a log viewer, TiNag offers a nice breadth of functionality. Besides viewing host and service states, the usual commands such as enabling/disabling checks, notifications and flap detection can also be sent with TiNag too. Particularly handy are the host state filter, alert and tactical view widgets for the home screen.

Developer Gerrit Schimpf set out to create TiNag at a time when there were only two clients on the market. With complicated configuration and a focus on alerting critical states, none offered quite what he was looking for.

Almost a year and handful of versions later, a user-friendly design and full feature set with minimal CPU load (and longer battery life) is what he hopes to have achieved with TiNag. Icinga compatible as of this year (v1.6), he is now working on better Icinga support, improved layout for tablets and a PNP4Nagios makeover.

A free version – TiNag Light is also available for users try all of TiNag’s features on a limited number of hosts and services. Both can be found on the Android app market.

Get in touch with Gerrit per email, twitter (@gerritschimpf) or on his TiNag homepage  if you have bug reports, suggestions or just want to say thanks.