Questions tagged [icinga]

Icinga is a fork of the Nagios Project that is also backwards compatible with Nagios.

The aim of the Icinga project is to retain all the existing features of Nagios but also build upon Nagios to introduce long awaited new features and patches requested by the Nagios user community.

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Icinga2 unidirectional remote clients

I'd like to monitor some hosts on which I can't allow an income connection. Is there a away to achieve that while using "Icinga 2 Client" or "by_ssh"? I can't find anything about that in the official documentation:…
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Error with using NRPE with Icinga2

I have working instance of Nagios, and I would like to run Icinga2 on other machine. Nagios is using NRPE so I would like to use it too. I have following configuration in files: object Service "NRPE check load" { import "generic-service" …
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How to divide hosts by groups in Icinga2 properly?

I just migrate from Nagios to Icinga2 and have a question. For example I have bunch of hosts related to group by their functional for example "web". But I want to check temperature for that group with different thresholds. For example for host1 60C…
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AND / OR service dependencies in Icinga / Nagios

I've been setting up an Icinga instance using service dependencies as so: define servicedependency{ dependent_host_name ahost dependent_service_description Battery Time host_name …
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nginx subdirectory to subdomain icingaweb2

I currently have icinga2 set up with the new icingaweb2 ui. it defaults to the subfolder /icingaweb as follows: location ~ ^/icingaweb/index\.php(.*)$ { # fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000; fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock; …
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Icinga Performance issue when using many service groups

We have an Icinga installation with more than 3k active service checks. Performance is acceptable. We're already using the use_large_installation_tweaks option. We have now started to build a sophisticated hierachy of service groups. Service groups…
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install icinga2 and icinga-web in different servers

I followed this tutorial to install icinga2 on Sientific Linux and it works fine. What I need to do now is to install icinga2 in a server, the database in other server and icinga-web in an other one. All servers are within the same local netrwork.…
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Delaying a Nagios/Icinga check

When monitoring the healthy of a server, some faults or warnings are immediately urgent but others only matter if they persist. I'm thinking of things like: Some software needs to be updated Time offset differs from NTP If unaddressed these could…
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Monitor total service uptime using Icinga

I am using Icinga (Nagios fork) for monitoring ~10 webservers, each one providing different services. I would now like to provide an aggregated view on the server states on our companies intranet, providing information like: server | state | last…
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How to make a persistent acknowledgment in Icinga/Nagios?

I am using Icinga (Nagios fork) to also monitor uptime of external hosts and services. Currently when looking at the "Critical" count I find it difficult to decide if an internal service is affected (I should take immediate action) or an external…
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Override implicitly inherited service in Icinga

I have a hostgroup A for which several services are defined using the hostgroup_name directive in their service template. Among several other hostgroups which hosts are also members of hostgroup A there is one hostgroup for which I want to override…
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Setting an alarm until acknowledgment (Nagios\Icinga)

I am SNMP polling a router and checking the amount of errors on an interface. Since SNMP counters can not be cleared on the device I am storing the last value received in a temp file. If there is an increase in the current polled value from the…
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adding new hosts in icinga web

Using Ubuntu 12.10 server. icinga with idoutils and icinga-web. Have ability to see hosts if I add them in the localhost_icinga.cfg however from my understanding you can create a host.cfg based on systems. example: windows.cfg to monitor all…
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PNP4Nagios creates infinite .perfdata files

at our company we have installed a Icinga together with PNP4Nagios. We've got a rare problem with the perfdata files PNP4Nagios creates. Each couple of weeks, we notice that our icinga server stops working correctly because it runs out of inodes.…
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How to run icinga with a apache vHost?

I have installed icinga from the icinga own repos on my debian squeeze box but now I don't know how to change the current config: # apache configuration for icinga ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/icinga /usr/lib/cgi-bin/icinga ScriptAlias /icinga/cgi-bin…
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