# Installing Icinga 2 The recommended way of installing Icinga 2 is to use packages. The Icinga project provides both release and development packages for a number of operating systems. Please check the documentation in the [doc/](doc/) directory for a current list of available packages and detailed installation instructions. The online documentation is available at [docs.icinga.com](https://docs.icinga.com) and will guide you step by step. There are a number of known caveats when installing from source such as incorrect directory and file permissions. So even if you're planning to not use the official packages it is advisable to build your own Debian or RPM packages. # Builds This information is intended for developers and packagers. ## Build Requirements The following requirements need to be fulfilled in order to build the application using a dist tarball (package names for RHEL and Debian in parentheses): * cmake >= 2.6 * GNU make (make) * C++ compiler which supports C++11 (gcc-c++ >= 4.7 on RHEL/SUSE, build-essential on Debian, alternatively clang++) * RedHat Developer Tools on RHEL5/6 (details on building below) * pkg-config * OpenSSL library and header files >= 0.9.8 (openssl-devel on RHEL, libopenssl1-devel on SLES11, libopenssl-devel on SLES12, libssl-dev on Debian) * Boost library and header files >= 1.41.0 (boost-devel on RHEL, libboost-all-dev on Debian) * GNU bison (bison) * GNU flex (flex) >= 2.5.35 * recommended: libexecinfo on FreeBSD (automatically used when Icinga 2 is installed via port or package) * optional: MySQL (mysql-devel on RHEL, libmysqlclient-devel on SUSE, libmysqlclient-dev on Debian); set CMake variable `ICINGA2_WITH_MYSQL` to `OFF` to disable this module * optional: PostgreSQL (postgresql-devel on RHEL, libpq-dev on Debian); set CMake variable `ICINGA2_WITH_PGSQL` to `OFF` to disable this module * optional: YAJL (yajl-devel on RHEL, libyajl-dev on Debian) * optional: libedit (libedit-devel on CentOS (RHEL requires rhel-7-server-optional-rpms repository for el7 e.g.), libedit-dev on Debian) * optional: Termcap (libtermcap-devel on RHEL, not necessary on Debian) - only required if libedit doesn't already link against termcap/ncurses * optional: libwxgtk2.8-dev or newer (wxGTK-devel and wxBase) - only required when building the Icinga 2 Studio Note: RHEL5 ships an ancient flex version. Updated packages are available for example from the repoforge buildtools repository. * x86: https://mirror.hs-esslingen.de/repoforge/redhat/el5/en/i386/buildtools/ * x86\_64: https://mirror.hs-esslingen.de/repoforge/redhat/el5/en/x86\_64/buildtools/ ### User Requirements By default Icinga will run as user 'icinga' and group 'icinga'. Additionally the external command pipe and livestatus features require a dedicated command group 'icingacmd'. You can choose your own user/group names and pass them to CMake using the `ICINGA2_USER`, `ICINGA2_GROUP` and `ICINGA2_COMMAND_GROUP` variables. # groupadd icinga # groupadd icingacmd # useradd -c "icinga" -s /sbin/nologin -G icingacmd -g icinga icinga Add the web server user to the icingacmd group in order to grant it write permissions to the external command pipe and livestatus socket: # usermod -a -G icingacmd www-data Make sure to replace "www-data" with the name of the user your web server is running as. ## Building Icinga 2 Once you have installed all the necessary build requirements you can build Icinga 2 using the following commands: $ mkdir build && cd build $ cmake .. $ make $ make install You can specify an alternative installation prefix using `-DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX`: $ cmake .. -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/tmp/icinga2 In addition to `CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX` the following Icinga-specific cmake variables are supported: - `ICINGA2_USER`: The user Icinga 2 should run as; defaults to `icinga` - `ICINGA2_GROUP`: The group Icinga 2 should run as; defaults to `icinga` - `ICINGA2_GIT_VERSION_INFO`: Whether to use Git to determine the version number; defaults to `ON` - `ICINGA2_COMMAND_GROUP`: The command group Icinga 2 should use; defaults to `icingacmd` - `ICINGA2_UNITY_BUILD`: Whether to perform a unity build; defaults to `ON` - `ICINGA2_LTO_BUILD`: Whether to use link time optimization (LTO); defaults to `OFF` - `ICINGA2_PLUGINDIR`: The path for the Monitoring Plugins project binaries; defaults to `/usr/lib/nagios/plugins` - `ICINGA2_RUNDIR`: The location of the "run" directory; defaults to `CMAKE_INSTALL_LOCALSTATEDIR/run` - `CMAKE_INSTALL_SYSCONFDIR`: The configuration directory; defaults to `CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX/etc` - `ICINGA2_SYSCONFIGFILE`: Where to put the config file the initscript/systemd pulls it's dirs from; defaults to `CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX/etc/sysconfig/icinga2` - `CMAKE_INSTALL_LOCALSTATEDIR`: The state directory; defaults to `CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX/var` - `USE_SYSTEMD=ON|OFF`: Use systemd or a classic SysV initscript; defaults to `OFF` - `INSTALL_SYSTEMD_SERVICE_AND_INITSCRIPT=ON|OFF` Force install both the systemd service definition file and the SysV initscript in parallel, regardless of how `USE_SYSTEMD` is set. Only use this for special packaging purposes and if you know what you are doing. Defaults to `OFF`. - `ICINGA2_WITH_MYSQL`: Determines whether the MySQL IDO module is built; defaults to `ON` - `ICINGA2_WITH_PGSQL`: Determines whether the PostgreSQL IDO module is built; defaults to `ON` - `ICINGA2_WITH_CHECKER`: Determines whether the checker module is built; defaults to `ON` - `ICINGA2_WITH_COMPAT`: Determines whether the compat module is built; defaults to `ON` - `ICINGA2_WITH_DEMO`: Determines whether the demo module is built; defaults to `OFF` - `ICINGA2_WITH_HELLO`: Determines whether the hello module is built; defaults to `OFF` - `ICINGA2_WITH_LIVESTATUS`: Determines whether the Livestatus module is built; defaults to `ON` - `ICINGA2_WITH_NOTIFICATION`: Determines whether the notification module is built; defaults to `ON` - `ICINGA2_WITH_PERFDATA`: Determines whether the perfdata module is built; defaults to `ON` - `ICINGA2_WITH_STUDIO`: Determines whether the Icinga Studio application is built; defaults to `OFF` - `ICINGA2_WITH_TESTS`: Determines whether the unit tests are built; defaults to `ON` CMake determines the Icinga 2 version number using `git describe` if the source directory is contained in a Git repository. Otherwise the version number is extracted from the [icinga2.spec](icinga2.spec) file. This behavior can be overridden by creating a file called `icinga-version.h.force` in the source directory. Alternatively the `-DICINGA2_GIT_VERSION_INFO=OFF` option for CMake can be used to disable the usage of `git describe`. ### Building Icinga 2 RPMs Setup your build environment on RHEL/SUSE and copy the generated tarball from your git repository to `rpmbuild/SOURCES`. Copy the icinga2.spec file to `rpmbuild/SPEC` and then run this command: $ rpmbuild -ba SPEC/icinga2.spec #### RHEL/CentOS 5 and 6 The RedHat Developer Toolset is required for building Icinga 2 beforehand. This contains a modern version of flex and a C++ compiler which supports C++11 features. cat >/etc/yum.repos.d/devtools-2.repo <> $file done #### SLES 11 The Icinga repository provides the required boost package version and must be added before building. ### Building Icinga 2 Debs Setup your build environment on Debian/Ubuntu, copy the 'debian' directory from the Debian packaging Git repository (https://github.com/Icinga/pkg-icinga2-debian) into your source tree and run the following command: $ dpkg-buildpackage -uc -us ### Building Post Install Tasks After building Icinga 2 yourself, your package build system should at least run the following post install requirements: * enable the `checker`, `notification` and `mainlog` feature by default * run 'icinga2 api setup' in order to enable the `api` feature and generate SSL certificates for the node ## Running Icinga 2 Icinga 2 comes with a single binary that takes care of loading all the relevant components (e.g. for check execution, notifications, etc.): # icinga2 daemon [2016-12-08 16:44:24 +0100] information/cli: Icinga application loader (version: v2.5.4-231-gb10a6b7; debug) [2016-12-08 16:44:24 +0100] information/cli: Loading configuration file(s). [2016-12-08 16:44:25 +0100] information/ConfigItem: Committing config item(s). ... Icinga 2 can be started as a daemon using the provided init script: # /etc/init.d/icinga2 Usage: /etc/init.d/icinga2 {start|stop|restart|reload|checkconfig|status} Or if your distribution uses systemd: # systemctl {start|stop|reload|status|enable|disable} icinga2 Icinga 2 reads a single configuration file which is used to specify all configuration settings (global settings, hosts, services, etc.). The configuration format is explained in detail in the [doc/](doc/) directory. By default `make install` installs example configuration files in `/usr/local/etc/icinga2` unless you have specified a different prefix or sysconfdir.