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Getting Started

This tutorial is a step-by-step introduction to installing Icinga 2 and available Icinga web interfaces. It assumes that you are familiar with the system you're installing Icinga 2 on.

Details on troubleshooting problems can be found here.

Setting up Icinga 2

First off you will have to install Icinga 2. The preferred way of doing this is to use the official package repositories depending on which operating system and distribution you are running.

Distribution	Repository
Debian	Upstream, DebMon, Icinga Repository
Ubuntu	Upstream, Icinga PPA, Icinga Repository
RHEL/CentOS	Icinga Repository
OpenSUSE	Icinga Repository, Server Monitoring Repository
SLES	Icinga Repository
Gentoo	Upstream
FreeBSD	Upstream
ArchLinux	Upstream

Packages for distributions other than the ones listed above may also be available. Please contact your distribution packagers.

Installing Requirements for Icinga 2

You need to add the Icinga repository to your package management configuration. Below is a list with examples for the various distributions.

Debian (debmon):

# wget -O - http://debmon.org/debmon/repo.key 2>/dev/null | apt-key add -
# cat >/etc/apt/sources.list.d/debmon.list<<EOF
deb http://debmon.org/debmon debmon-wheezy main
EOF
# apt-get update

Ubuntu (PPA):

# add-apt-repository ppa:formorer/icinga
# apt-get update

RHEL/CentOS:

# rpm --import http://packages.icinga.org/icinga.key
# wget http://packages.icinga.org/epel/ICINGA-release.repo -O /etc/yum.repos.d/ICINGA-release.repo
# yum makecache

Fedora:

# wget http://packages.icinga.org/fedora/ICINGA-release.repo -O /etc/yum.repos.d/ICINGA-release.repo
# yum makecache

SLES:

# zypper ar http://packages.icinga.org/SUSE/ICINGA-release.repo
# zypper ref

OpenSUSE:

# zypper ar http://packages.icinga.org/openSUSE/ICINGA-release.repo
# zypper ref

The packages for RHEL/CentOS depend on other packages which are distributed as part of the EPEL repository. Please make sure to enable this repository by following these instructions.

Installing Icinga 2

You can install Icinga 2 by using your distribution's package manager to install the icinga2 package.

Debian/Ubuntu:

# apt-get install icinga2

RHEL/CentOS/Fedora:

# yum install icinga2

SLES/OpenSUSE:

# zypper install icinga2

On RHEL/CentOS and SLES you will need to use chkconfig to enable the icinga2 service. You can manually start Icinga 2 using service icinga2 start.

# chkconfig icinga2 on
# service icinga2 start

RHEL/CentOS 7 use Systemd with systemctl {enable,start} icinga2.

# systemctl enable icinga2
# systemctl start icinga2

Some parts of Icinga 2's functionality are available as separate packages:

Name	Description
icinga2-ido-mysql	DB IDO provider module for MySQL
icinga2-ido-pgsql	DB IDO provider module for PostgreSQL

If you're running a distribution for which Icinga 2 packages are not yet available you will need to use the release tarball which you can download from the Icinga website. The release tarballs contain an INSTALL file with further instructions.

Enabled Features during Installation

The default installation will enable three features required for a basic Icinga 2 installation:

checker for executing checks
notification for sending notifications
mainlog for writing the icinga2.log file

Verify that by calling icinga2 feature enable without any additional parameters and enable the missing features, if any.

# icinga2 feature enable
Syntax: icinga2 feature enable <features separated with whitespaces>
  Example: icinga2 feature enable checker notification mainlog
Enables the specified feature(s).

Available features: api checker command compatlog debuglog graphite icingastatus ido-mysql ido-pgsql livestatus mainlog notification perfdata statusdata syslog
Enabled features: checker mainlog notification

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/bin/icinga2-*	Migration and certificate build scripts.
/usr/sbin/icinga2*	The Icinga 2 binary and feature enable/disable scripts.
/usr/share/doc/icinga2	Documentation files that come with Icinga 2.
/usr/share/icinga2/include	The Icinga Template Library and plugin command configuration.
/var/run/icinga2	PID file.
/var/run/icinga2/cmd	Command pipe and Livestatus socket.
/var/cache/icinga2	status.dat/objects.cache.
/var/spool/icinga2	Used for performance data spool files.
/var/lib/icinga2	Icinga 2 state file, cluster feature replay log and configuration files.
/var/log/icinga2	Log file location and compat/ directory for the CompatLogger feature.

Setting up Check Plugins

Without plugins Icinga 2 does not know how to check external services. The Monitoring Plugins Project provides an extensive set of plugins which can be used with Icinga 2 to check whether services are working properly.

The recommended way of installing these standard plugins is to use your distribution's package manager.

Note

The Nagios Plugins project was renamed to Monitoring Plugins in January 2014. At the time of this writing some packages are still using the old name while some distributions have adopted the new package name monitoring-plugins already.

Note

EPEL for RHEL/CentOS 7 is still in beta mode at the time of writing and does not provide a monitoring-plugins package. You are required to manually install them.

For your convenience here is a list of package names for some of the more popular operating systems/distributions:

OS/Distribution	Package Name	Installation Path
RHEL/CentOS (EPEL)	nagios-plugins-all	/usr/lib/nagios/plugins or /usr/lib64/nagios/plugins
Debian	nagios-plugins	/usr/lib/nagios/plugins
FreeBSD	nagios-plugins	/usr/local/libexec/nagios
OS X (MacPorts)	nagios-plugins	/opt/local/libexec

Depending on which directory your plugins are installed into you may need to update the global PluginDir constant in your Icinga 2 configuration. This macro is used by the service templates contained in the Icinga Template Library to determine where to find the plugin binaries.

Integrate Additional Plugins

For some services you may need additional 'check plugins' which are not provided by the official Monitoring Plugins project.

All existing Nagios or Icinga 1.x plugins work with Icinga 2. Here's a list of popular community sites which host check plugins:

The recommended way of setting up these plugins is to copy them to a common directory and create an extra global constant, e.g. CustomPluginDir in your constants.conf configuration file:

# cp check_snmp_int.pl /opt/plugins
# chmod +x /opt/plugins/check_snmp_int.pl

# cat /etc/icinga2/constants.conf
/**
 * This file defines global constants which can be used in
 * the other configuration files. At a minimum the
 * PluginDir constant should be defined.
 */

const PluginDir = "/usr/lib/nagios/plugins"
const CustomPluginDir = "/opt/monitoring"

Prior to using the check plugin with Icinga 2 you should ensure that it is working properly by trying to run it on the console using whichever user Icinga 2 is running as:

# su - icinga -s /bin/bash
$ /opt/plugins/check_snmp_int.pl --help

Additional libraries may be required for some plugins. Please consult the plugin documentation and/or plugin provided README for installation instructions. Sometimes plugins contain hard-coded paths to other components. Instead of changing the plugin it might be easier to create logical links which is (more) update-safe.

Each plugin requires a CheckCommand object in your configuration which can be used in the Service or Host object definition. Examples for CheckCommand objects can be found in the Plugin Check Commands shipped with Icinga 2. For further information on your monitoring configuration read the monitoring basics.

Configuring Icinga 2: First Steps

icinga2.conf

An example configuration file is installed for you in /etc/icinga2/icinga2.conf.

Here's a brief description of the example configuration:

/**
 * Icinga 2 configuration file
 * - this is where you define settings for the Icinga application including
 * which hosts/services to check.
 *
 * For an overview of all available configuration options please refer
 * to the documentation that is distributed as part of Icinga 2.
 */

Icinga 2 supports C/C++-style comments.

/**
 * The constants.conf defines global constants.
 */
include "constants.conf"

The include directive can be used to include other files.

/**
 * The zones.conf defines zones for a cluster setup.
 * Not required for single instance setups.
 */
 include "zones.conf"

/**
 * The Icinga Template Library (ITL) provides a number of useful templates
 * and command definitions.
 * Common monitoring plugin command definitions are included separately.
 */
include <itl>
include <plugins>

/**
 * The features-available directory contains a number of configuration
 * files for features which can be enabled and disabled using the
 * icinga2 feature enable / icinga2 feature disable CLI commands.
 * These commands work by creating and removing symbolic links in
 * the features-enabled directory.
 */
include "features-enabled/*.conf"

This include directive takes care of including the configuration files for all the features which have been enabled with icinga2 feature enable. See Enabling/Disabling Features for more details.

/**
 * Although in theory you could define all your objects in this file
 * the preferred way is to create separate directories and files in the conf.d
 * directory. Each of these files must have the file extension ".conf".
 */
include_recursive "conf.d"

You can put your own configuration files in the conf.d directory. This directive makes sure that all of your own configuration files are included.

constants.conf

The constants.conf configuration file can be used to define global constants:

/**
 * This file defines global constants which can be used in
 * the other configuration files.
 */

/* The directory which contains the plugins from the Monitoring Plugins project. */
const PluginDir = "/usr/lib/nagios/plugins"

/* Our local instance name. This should be the common name from the API certificate */
const NodeName = "localhost"

/* Our local zone name. */
const ZoneName = NodeName

zones.conf

The zones.conf configuration file can be used to configure Endpoint and Zone objects required for a distributed zone setup. By default a local dummy zone is defined based on the NodeName constant defined in constants.conf.

Note

Not required for single instance installations.

localhost.conf

The conf.d/hosts/localhost.conf file contains our first host definition:

/**
 * A host definition. You can create your own configuration files
 * in the conf.d directory (e.g. one per host). By default all *.conf
 * files in this directory are included.
 */

object Host "localhost" {
  import "generic-host"

  address = "127.0.0.1"
  address6 = "::1"

  vars.os = "Linux"
  vars.sla = "24x7"
}

This defines the host localhost. The import keyword is used to import the generic-host template which takes care of setting up the host check command to hostalive. If you require a different check command, you can override it in the object definition.

The vars attribute can be used to define custom attributes which are available for check and notification commands. Most of the templates in the Icinga Template Library require an address attribute.

The custom attribute os is evaluated by the linux-servers group in groups.conf making the host localhost a member.

object HostGroup "linux-servers" {
  display_name = "Linux Servers"

  assign where host.vars.os == "Linux"
}

A host notification apply rule in notifications.conf checks for the custom attribute sla being set to 24x7 automatically applying a host notification.

/**
 * The example notification apply rules.
 *
 * Only applied if host/service objects have
 * the custom attribute `sla` set to `24x7`.
 */

apply Notification "mail-icingaadmin" to Host {
  import "mail-host-notification"

  user_groups = [ "icingaadmins" ]

  assign where host.vars.sla == "24x7"
}

Now it's time to define services for the host object. Because these checks are only available for the localhost host, they are organized below hosts/localhost/.

Tip

The directory tree and file organisation is just an example. You are free to define your own strategy. Just keep in mind to include the main directories in the icinga2.conf file.

object Service "disk" {
  import "generic-service"

  host_name = "localhost"
  check_command = "disk"
  vars.sla = "24x7"
}

object Service "http" {
  import "generic-service"

  host_name = "localhost"
  check_command = "http"
  vars.sla = "24x7"
}

object Service "load" {
  import "generic-service"

  host_name = "localhost"
  check_command = "load"
  vars.sla = "24x7"
}

object Service "procs" {
  import "generic-service"

  host_name = "localhost"
  check_command = "procs"
  vars.sla = "24x7"
}

object Service "ssh" {
  import "generic-service"

  host_name = "localhost"
  check_command = "ssh"
  vars.sla = "24x7"
}

object Service "swap" {
  import "generic-service"

  host_name = "localhost"
  check_command = "swap"
  vars.sla = "24x7"
}

object Service "users" {
  import "generic-service"

  host_name = "localhost"
  check_command = "users"
  vars.sla = "24x7"
}

object Service "icinga" {
  import "generic-service"

  host_name = "localhost"
  check_command = "icinga"
  vars.sla = "24x7"
}

The command object icinga for the embedded health check is provided by the Icinga Template Library (ITL) while http_ip, ssh, load, processes, users and disk are all provided by the plugin check commands which we enabled earlier by including the itl and plugins configuration file.

The Debian packages also ship an additional apt service check.

Best Practice

Instead of defining each service object and assigning it to a host object using the host_name attribute rather use the apply rules simplifying your configuration.

There are two generic services applied to all hosts in the host group linux-servers and windows-servers by default: ping4 and ping6. Host objects without a valid address resp. address6 attribute will be excluded.

apply Service "ping4" {
  import "generic-service"

  check_command = "ping4"
  vars.sla = "24x7"

  assign where "linux-servers" in host.groups
  assign where "windows-servers" in host.groups
  ignore where host.address == ""
}

apply Service "ping6" {
  import "generic-service"

  check_command = "ping6"
  vars.sla = "24x7"

  assign where "linux-servers" in host.groups
  assign where "windows-servers" in host.groups
  ignore where host.address6 == ""
}

Each of these services has the custom attribute sla set to 24x7. The notification apply rule in notifications.conf will automatically apply a service notification matching this attribute pattern.

apply Notification "mail-icingaadmin" to Service {
  import "mail-service-notification"

  user_groups = [ "icingaadmins" ]

  assign where service.vars.sla == "24x7"
}

Don't forget to install the check plugins required by the services and their check commands.

Further details on the monitoring configuration can be found in the monitoring basics chapter.

Configuring DB IDO

The DB IDO (Database Icinga Data Output) modules for Icinga 2 take care of exporting all configuration and status information into a database. The IDO database is used by a number of projects including Icinga Web 1.x, Reporting or Icinga Web 2.

There is a separate module for each database back-end. At present support for both MySQL and PostgreSQL is implemented.

Icinga 2 uses the Icinga 1.x IDOUtils database schema. Icinga 2 requires additional features not yet released with older Icinga 1.x versions.

Note

Please check the what's new section for the required schema version.

Tip

Only install the IDO feature if your web interface or reporting tool requires you to do so (for example, Icinga Web or Icinga Web 2). Icinga Classic UI does not use IDO as backend.

Installing the Database Server

In order to use DB IDO you need to setup either MySQL or PostgreSQL as supported database server.

Note

It's up to you whether you choose to install it on the same server where Icinga 2 is running on, or on a dedicated database host (or cluster).

Installing MySQL database server

Debian/Ubuntu:

# apt-get install mysql-server mysql-client

RHEL/CentOS 5/6:

# yum install mysql-server mysql
# chkconfig mysqld on
# service mysqld start

RHEL/CentOS 7 and Fedora 20 prefer MariaDB over MySQL:

# yum install mariadb-server mariadb
# systemctl enable mariadb.service
# systemctl start mariadb.service

SUSE:

# zypper install mysql mysql-client
# chkconfig mysqld on
# service mysqld start

RHEL based distributions do not automatically set a secure root password. Do that now:

# /usr/bin/mysql_secure_installation

Installing PostgreSQL database server

Debian/Ubuntu:

# apt-get install postgresql

RHEL/CentOS 5/6:

# yum install postgresql-server postgresql
# chkconfig postgresql on
# service postgresql start

RHEL/CentOS 7 and Fedora 20 use systemd:

# yum install postgresql-server postgresql
# systemctl enable postgresql.service
# systemctl start postgresql.service

SUSE:

# zypper install postgresql postgresql-server
# chkconfig postgresql on
# service postgresql start

Configuring DB IDO MySQL

First of all you have to install the icinga2-ido-mysql package using your distribution's package manager.

Debian/Ubuntu:

# apt-get install icinga2-ido-mysql

RHEL/CentOS:

# yum install icinga2-ido-mysql

SUSE:

# zypper install icinga2-ido-mysql

Note

Upstream Debian packages provide a database configuration wizard by default. You can skip the automated setup and install/upgrade the database manually if you prefer that.

Setting up the MySQL database

Set up a MySQL database for Icinga 2:

# mysql -u root -p

mysql>  CREATE DATABASE icinga;
        GRANT SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, DROP, CREATE VIEW, INDEX, EXECUTE ON icinga.* TO 'icinga'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'icinga';
        quit

After creating the database you can import the Icinga 2 IDO schema using the following command:

# mysql -u root -p icinga < /usr/share/icinga2-ido-mysql/schema/mysql.sql

Upgrading the MySQL database

Check the /usr/share/icinga2-ido-mysql/schema/upgrade directory for an incremental schema upgrade file.

Note

If there isn't an upgrade file for your current version available there's nothing to do.

Apply all database schema upgrade files incrementially.

# mysql -u root -p icinga < /usr/share/icinga2-ido-mysql/schema/upgrade/<version>.sql

The Icinga 2 DB IDO module will check for the required database schema version on startup and generate an error message if not satisfied.

Example: You are upgrading Icinga 2 from version 2.0.2 to 2.1.0. Look into the upgrade directory:

$ ls /usr/share/icinga2-ido-mysql/schema/upgrade/
2.0.2.sql  2.1.0.sql

There is a new upgrade file called 2.1.0.sql which must be applied to your IDO database.

Installing the IDO MySQL module

The package provides a new configuration file that is installed in /etc/icinga2/features-available/ido-mysql.conf. You will need to update the database credentials in this file.

You can enable the ido-mysql feature configuration file using icinga2 feature enable:

# icinga2 feature enable ido-mysql
Module 'ido-mysql' was enabled.
Make sure to restart Icinga 2 for these changes to take effect.

After enabling the ido-mysql feature you have to restart Icinga 2:

Debian/Ubuntu, RHEL/CentOS 6 and SUSE:

# service icinga2 restart

RHEL/CentOS 7 and Fedora 20:

# systemctl restart icinga2.service

Configuring DB IDO PostgreSQL

First of all you have to install the icinga2-ido-pgsql package using your distribution's package manager.

Debian/Ubuntu:

# apt-get install icinga2-ido-pgsql

RHEL/CentOS:

# yum install icinga2-ido-pgsql

SUSE:

# zypper install icinga2-ido-pgsql

Note

Upstream Debian packages provide a database configuration wizard by default. You can skip the automated setup and install/upgrade the database manually if you prefer that.

Setting up the PostgreSQL database

Set up a PostgreSQL database for Icinga 2:

# cd /tmp
# sudo -u postgres psql -c "CREATE ROLE icinga WITH LOGIN PASSWORD 'icinga'";
# sudo -u postgres createdb -O icinga -E UTF8 icinga
# sudo -u postgres createlang plpgsql icinga

Note

Using PostgreSQL 9.x you can omit the createlang command.

Locate your pg_hba.conf (Debian: /etc/postgresql/*/main/pg_hba.conf, RHEL/SUSE: /var/lib/pgsql/data/pg_hba.conf), add the icinga user with md5 authentication method and restart the postgresql server.

# vim /var/lib/pgsql/data/pg_hba.conf

# icinga
local   icinga      icinga                            md5
host    icinga      icinga      127.0.0.1/32          md5
host    icinga      icinga      ::1/128               md5

# "local" is for Unix domain socket connections only
local   all         all                               ident
# IPv4 local connections:
host    all         all         127.0.0.1/32          ident
# IPv6 local connections:
host    all         all         ::1/128               ident

# /etc/init.d/postgresql restart

After creating the database and permissions you can import the Icinga 2 IDO schema using the following command:

# export PGPASSWORD=icinga
# psql -U icinga -d icinga < /usr/share/icinga2-ido-pgsql/schema/pgsql.sql

Upgrading the PostgreSQL database

Check the /usr/share/icinga2-ido-pgsql/schema/upgrade directory for an incremental schema upgrade file.

Note

If there isn't an upgrade file for your current version available there's nothing to do.

Apply all database schema upgrade files incrementially.

# export PGPASSWORD=icinga
# psql -U icinga -d icinga < /usr/share/icinga2-ido-pgsql/schema/upgrade/<version>.sql

The Icinga 2 DB IDO module will check for the required database schema version on startup and generate an error message if not satisfied.

Example: You are upgrading Icinga 2 from version 2.0.2 to 2.1.0. Look into the upgrade directory:

$ ls /usr/share/icinga2-ido-pgsql/schema/upgrade/
2.0.2.sql  2.1.0.sql

There is a new upgrade file called 2.1.0.sql which must be applied to your IDO database.

Installing the IDO PostgreSQL module

The package provides a new configuration file that is installed in /etc/icinga2/features-available/ido-pgsql.conf. You will need to update the database credentials in this file.

You can enable the ido-pgsql feature configuration file using icinga2 feature enable:

# icinga2 feature enable ido-pgsql
Module 'ido-pgsql' was enabled.
Make sure to restart Icinga 2 for these changes to take effect.

After enabling the ido-pgsql feature you have to restart Icinga 2:

Debian/Ubuntu, RHEL/CentOS 6 and SUSE:

# service icinga2 restart

RHEL/CentOS 7 and Fedora 20:

# systemctl restart icinga2.service

Setting Up External Command Pipe

Web interfaces and other Icinga addons are able to send commands to Icinga 2 through the external command pipe.

You can enable the External Command Pipe using icinga2 feature enable:

# icinga2 feature enable command

After that you will have to restart Icinga 2:

Debian/Ubuntu, RHEL/CentOS 6 and SUSE:

# service icinga2 restart

RHEL/CentOS 7 and Fedora 20:

# systemctl restart icinga2.service

By default the command pipe file is owned by the group icingacmd with read/write permissions. Add your webserver's user to the group icingacmd to enable sending commands to Icinga 2 through your web interface:

# usermod -G -a icingacmd www-data

Debian packages use nagios as the default user and group name. Therefore change icingacmd to nagios. The webserver's user is different between distributions so you might have to change www-data to wwwrun, www, or apache.

Change "www-data" to the user you're using to run queries.

Note

Packages will do that automatically. Verify that by running id <your-webserver-user> and skip this step.

Setting up Livestatus

The MK Livestatus project implements a query protocol that lets users query their Icinga instance for status information. It can also be used to send commands.

Tip

Only install the Livestatus feature if your web interface or addon requires you to do so (for example, Icinga Web 2). Icinga Classic UI and Icinga Web do not use Livestatus as backend.

The Livestatus component that is distributed as part of Icinga 2 is a re-implementation of the Livestatus protocol which is compatible with MK Livestatus.

Details on the available tables and attributes with Icinga 2 can be found in the Livestatus Schema section.

You can enable Livestatus using icinga2 feature enable:

# icinga2 feature enable livestatus

After that you will have to restart Icinga 2:

Debian/Ubuntu, RHEL/CentOS 6 and SUSE:

# service icinga2 restart

RHEL/CentOS 7 and Fedora 20:

# systemctl restart icinga2.service

By default the Livestatus socket is available in /var/run/icinga2/cmd/livestatus.

In order for queries and commands to work you will need to add your query user (e.g. your web server) to the icingacmd group:

# usermod -a -G icingacmd www-data

The Debian packages use nagios as the user and group name. Make sure to change icingacmd to nagios if you're using Debian.

Change "www-data" to the user you're using to run queries.

In order to use the historical tables provided by the livestatus feature (for example, the log table) you need to have the CompatLogger feature enabled. By default these logs are expected to be in /var/log/icinga2/compat. A different path can be set using the compat_log_path configuration attribute.

# icinga2 feature enable compatlog

Setting up Icinga 2 User Interfaces

Icinga 2 is compatible with Icinga 1.x user interfaces by providing additional features required as backends.

Furthermore these interfaces can be used for the newly created Icinga Web 2 user interface.

Some interface features will only work in a limited manner due to compatibility reasons, other features like the statusmap parents are available by dumping the host dependencies as parents. Special restrictions are noted specifically in the sections below.

Tip

Choose your preferred interface. There's no need to install Classic UI if you prefer Icinga Web or Icinga Web 2 for example.

Requirements

Web server (Apache2/Httpd, Nginx, Lighttp, etc)
User credentials
Firewall ports (tcp/80)

The Debian, RHEL and SUSE packages for Icinga Classic UI, Web and Icingaweb 2 depend on Apache2 as web server.

Webserver

Debian/Ubuntu packages will automatically fetch and install the required packages.

RHEL/CentOS/Fedora:

# yum install httpd
# chkconfig httpd on && service httpd start
## RHEL7
# systemctl enable httpd && systemctl start httpd

SUSE:

# zypper install apache2
# chkconfig on && service apache2 start

Firewall Rules

Example:

# iptables -A INPUT -p tcp -m tcp --dport 80 -j ACCEPT
# service iptables save

RHEL/CentOS 7 specific:

# firewall-cmd --add-service=http
# firewall-cmd --permanent --add-service=http

Setting up Icinga Classic UI

Icinga 2 can write status.dat and objects.cache files in the format that is supported by the Icinga 1.x Classic UI. External commands (a.k.a. the "command pipe") are also supported. It also supports writing Icinga 1.x log files which are required for the reporting functionality in the Classic UI.

Installing Icinga Classic UI

The Icinga package repository has both Debian and RPM packages. You can install the Classic UI using the following packages:

Distribution	Packages
Debian	icinga2-classicui
RHEL/SUSE	icinga2-classicui-config icinga-gui

The Debian packages require additional packages which are provided by the Debian Monitoring Project (DebMon) repository.

libjs-jquery-ui requires at least version 1.10.* which is not available in Debian 7 (Wheezy) and Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise). Add the following repositories to satisfy this dependency:

Distribution	Package Repositories
Debian Wheezy	wheezy-backports or DebMon
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise)	Icinga PPA

On all distributions other than Debian you may have to restart both your web server as well as Icinga 2 after installing the Classic UI package.

Icinga Classic UI requires the StatusDataWriter, CompatLogger and ExternalCommandListener features. Enable these features and restart Icinga 2.

# icinga2 feature enable statusdata compatlog command

In order for commands to work you will need to setup the external command pipe.

Setting Up Icinga Classic UI Summary

Verify that your Icinga 1.x Classic UI works by browsing to your Classic UI installation URL:

Distribution	URL	Default Login
Debian	http://localhost/icinga2-classicui	asked during installation
all others	http://localhost/icinga	icingaadmin/icingaadmin

For further information on configuration, troubleshooting and interface documentation please check the official Icinga 1.x user interface documentation.

Setting up Icinga Web

Icinga 2 can write to the same schema supplied by Icinga IDOUtils 1.x which is an explicit requirement to run Icinga Web next to the external command pipe. Therefore you need to setup the DB IDO feature remarked in the previous sections.

Installing Icinga Web

The Icinga package repository has both Debian and RPM packages. You can install Icinga Web using the following packages (RPMs ship an additional configuration package):

Distribution	Packages
RHEL/SUSE	icinga-web icinga-web-{mysql,pgsql}
Debian	icinga-web icinga-web-config-icinga2-ido-{mysql,pgsql}

Icinga Web on RPM based systems

Additionally you need to setup the icinga_web database and import the database schema. Details can be found in the package README files, for example README.RHEL

The Icinga Web RPM packages install the schema files into /usr/share/doc/icinga-web-*/schema (* means package version). The Icinga Web dist tarball ships the schema files in etc/schema.

On SuSE-based distributions the schema files are installed in /usr/share/doc/packages/icinga-web/schema.

Example for RHEL and MySQL:

# mysql -u root -p

mysql> CREATE DATABASE icinga_web;
       GRANT SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, DROP, CREATE VIEW, INDEX, EXECUTE ON icinga_web.* TO 'icinga_web'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'icinga_web';
       quit

# mysql -u root -p icinga_web <  /usr/share/doc/icinga-web-<version>/schema/mysql.sql

Icinga Web requires the IDO feature as database backend using MySQL or PostgreSQL. Enable that feature, e.g. for MySQL.

# icinga2 feature enable ido-mysql

If you've changed your default credentials you may either create a read-only user or use the credentials defined in the IDO feature for Icinga Web backend configuration. Edit databases.xml accordingly and clear the cache afterwards. Further details can be found in the Icinga Web documentation.

# vim /etc/icinga-web/conf.d/databases.xml

# icinga-web-clearcache

Additionally you need to enable the command feature for sending external commands:

# icinga2 feature enable command

In order for commands to work you will need to setup the external command pipe.

Then edit the Icinga Web configuration for sending commands in /etc/icinga-web/conf.d/access.xml (RHEL) or /etc/icinga-web/access.xml (SUSE) setting the command pipe path to the default used in Icinga 2. Make sure to clear the cache afterwards.

# vim /etc/icinga-web/conf.d/access.xml

            <write>
                <files>
                    <resource name="icinga_pipe">/var/run/icinga2/cmd/icinga2.cmd</resource>
                </files>
            </write>

# icinga-web-clearcache

Note

The path to the Icinga Web clearcache script may differ. Please check the Icinga Web documentation for details.

Icinga Web on Debian systems

Since Icinga Web 1.11.1-2 the IDO auto-configuration has been moved into additional packages on Debian and Ubuntu.

The package icinga-web no longer configures the IDO connection. You must now use one of the config packages:

icinga-web-config-icinga2-ido-mysql
icinga-web-config-icinga2-ido-pgsql

These packages take care of setting up the DB IDO configuration, enabling the external command pipe for Icinga Web and depend on the corresponding packages of Icinga 2.

Please read the README.Debian files for details and advanced configuration:

/usr/share/doc/icinga-web/README.Debian
/usr/share/doc/icinga-web-config-icinga2-ido-mysql/README.Debian
/usr/share/doc/icinga-web-config-icinga2-ido-pgsql/README.Debian

When changing Icinga Web configuration files make sure to clear the config cache:

# /usr/lib/icinga-web/bin/clearcache.sh

Note

If you are using an older version of Icinga Web, install it like this and adapt the configuration manually as shown in the RPM notes:

apt-get install --no-install-recommends icinga-web

Setting Up Icinga Web Summary

Verify that your Icinga 1.x Web works by browsing to your Web installation URL:

Distribution	URL	Default Login
Debian	http://localhost/icinga-web	asked during installation
all others	http://localhost/icinga-web	root/password

For further information on configuration, troubleshooting and interface documentation please check the official Icinga 1.x user interface documentation.

Setting up Icinga Web 2

Icinga Web 2 will support status.dat, DB IDO, or Livestatus as backends.

Using DB IDO as backend, you need to install and configure the DB IDO backend. Once finished, you can enable the feature for DB IDO MySQL:

# icinga2 feature enable ido-mysql

Furthermore external commands are supported through the external command pipe.

# icinga2 feature enable command

In order for commands to work you will need to setup the external command pipe.

Please consult the INSTALL documentation shipped with Icinga Web 2 for further instructions on how to install Icinga Web 2 and to configure backends, resources and instances.

Note

Icinga Web 2 is still under heavy development. Rather than installing it yourself you should consider testing it using the available Vagrant demo VM in the git repository.

Check the Icinga website for release schedules, blog updates and more.

Additional visualization

There are many visualization addons which can be used with Icinga 2.

Some of the more popular ones are PNP, inGraph (graphing performance data), Graphite, and NagVis (network maps).

Configuration Tools

If you require your favourite configuration tool to export Icinga 2 configuration, please get in touch with their developers. The Icinga project does not provide a configuration web interface or similar.

Tip

Get to know the new configuration format and the advanced apply rules and use syntax highlighting in vim/nano.

If you're looking for puppet manifests, chef cookbooks, ansible recipes, etc - we're happy to integrate them upstream, so please get in touch at https://support.icinga.org.

These tools are in development and require feedback and tests:

Configuration Syntax Highlighting

Icinga 2 ships configuration examples for syntax highlighting using the vim and nano editors. The RHEL, SUSE and Debian package icinga2-common install these files into /usr/share/*/icinga2-common/syntax. Sources provide these files in tools/syntax.

Configuration Syntax Highlighting using Vim

Create a new local vim configuration storage, if not already existing. Edit vim/ftdetect/icinga2.vim if your paths to the Icinga 2 configuration differ.

$ PREFIX=~/.vim
$ mkdir -p $PREFIX/{syntax,ftdetect}
$ cp vim/syntax/icinga2.vim $PREFIX/syntax/
$ cp vim/ftdetect/icinga2.vim $PREFIX/ftdetect/

Test it:

$ vim /etc/icinga2/conf.d/templates.conf

Configuration Syntax Highlighting using Nano

Copy the /etc/nanorc sample file to your home directory. Create the /etc/nano directory and copy the provided icinga2.nanorc into it.

$ cp /etc/nanorc ~/.nanorc

# mkdir -p /etc/nano
# cp icinga2.nanorc /etc/nano/

Then include the icinga2.nanorc file in your ~/.nanorc by adding the following line:

$ vim ~/.nanorc

## Icinga 2
include "/etc/nano/icinga2.nanorc"

Test it:

$ nano /etc/icinga2/conf.d/templates.conf

Running Icinga 2

Init Script

Icinga 2's init script is installed in /etc/init.d/icinga2 by default:

# /etc/init.d/icinga2
Usage: /etc/init.d/icinga2 {start|stop|restart|reload|checkconfig|status}

Command	Description
start	The `start` action starts the Icinga 2 daemon.
stop	The `stop` action stops the Icinga 2 daemon.
restart	The `restart` action is a shortcut for running the `stop` action followed by `start`.
reload	The `reload` action sends the `HUP` signal to Icinga 2 which causes it to restart. Unlike the `restart` action `reload` does not wait until Icinga 2 has restarted.
checkconfig	The `checkconfig` action checks if the `/etc/icinga2/icinga2.conf` configuration file contains any errors.
status	The `status` action checks if Icinga 2 is running.

By default the Icinga 2 daemon is running as icinga user and group using the init script. Using Debian packages the user and group are set to nagios for historical reasons.

Systemd Service

Modern distributions (Fedora, OpenSUSE, etc.) already use Systemd natively. Enterprise-grade distributions such as RHEL7 changed to Systemd recently. Icinga 2 Packages will install the service automatically.

The Icinga 2 Systemd service can be (re)started, reloaded, stopped and also queried for its current status.

# systemctl status icinga2
icinga2.service - Icinga host/service/network monitoring system
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/icinga2.service; disabled)
   Active: active (running) since Mi 2014-07-23 13:39:38 CEST; 15s ago
  Process: 21692 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/icinga2 -c ${ICINGA2_CONFIG_FILE} -d -e ${ICINGA2_ERROR_LOG} -u ${ICINGA2_USER} -g ${ICINGA2_GROUP} (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
  Process: 21674 ExecStartPre=/usr/sbin/icinga2-prepare-dirs /etc/sysconfig/icinga2 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
 Main PID: 21727 (icinga2)
   CGroup: /system.slice/icinga2.service
           └─21727 /usr/sbin/icinga2 -c /etc/icinga2/icinga2.conf -d -e /var/log/icinga2/error.log -u icinga -g icinga --no-stack-rlimit

Jul 23 13:39:38 nbmif icinga2[21692]: [2014-07-23 13:39:38 +0200] information/ConfigItem: Checked 309 Service(s).
Jul 23 13:39:38 nbmif icinga2[21692]: [2014-07-23 13:39:38 +0200] information/ConfigItem: Checked 1 User(s).
Jul 23 13:39:38 nbmif icinga2[21692]: [2014-07-23 13:39:38 +0200] information/ConfigItem: Checked 15 Notification(s).
Jul 23 13:39:38 nbmif icinga2[21692]: [2014-07-23 13:39:38 +0200] information/ConfigItem: Checked 4 ScheduledDowntime(s).
Jul 23 13:39:38 nbmif icinga2[21692]: [2014-07-23 13:39:38 +0200] information/ConfigItem: Checked 1 UserGroup(s).
Jul 23 13:39:38 nbmif icinga2[21692]: [2014-07-23 13:39:38 +0200] information/ConfigItem: Checked 1 IcingaApplication(s).
Jul 23 13:39:38 nbmif icinga2[21692]: [2014-07-23 13:39:38 +0200] information/ConfigItem: Checked 8 Dependency(s).
Jul 23 13:39:38 nbmif systemd[1]: Started Icinga host/service/network monitoring system.

Systemd supports the following command actions:

Command	Description
start	The `start` action starts the Icinga 2 daemon.
stop	The `stop` action stops the Icinga 2 daemon.
restart	The `restart` action is a shortcut for running the `stop` action followed by `start`.
reload	The `reload` action sends the `HUP` signal to Icinga 2 which causes it to restart. Unlike the `restart` action `reload` does not wait until Icinga 2 has restarted.
status	The `status` action checks if Icinga 2 is running.
enable	The `enable` action enables the service being started at system boot time (similar to `chkconfig`)

If you're stuck with configuration errors, you can manually invoke the configuration validation.

# systemctl enable icinga2

# systemctl restart icinga2
Job for icinga2.service failed. See 'systemctl status icinga2.service' and 'journalctl -xn' for details.

Command-line Options

$ icinga2 --help
icinga2 - The Icinga 2 network monitoring daemon.

Supported options:
  --help                show this help message
  -V [ --version ]      show version information
  -l [ --library ] arg  load a library
  -I [ --include ] arg  add include search directory
  -D [ --define] args   define a constant
  -c [ --config ] arg   parse a configuration file
  -C [ --validate ]     exit after validating the configuration
  -x [ --debug ] arg    enable debugging with severity level specified
  -d [ --daemonize ]    detach from the controlling terminal
  -e [ --errorlog ] arg log fatal errors to the specified log file (only works
                        in combination with --daemonize)
  -u [ --user ] arg     user to run Icinga as
  -g [ --group ] arg    group to run Icinga as

Report bugs at <https://dev.icinga.org/>
Icinga home page: <http://www.icinga.org/>

Libraries

Instead of loading libraries using the library config directive you can also use the --library command-line option.

Constants

Global constants can be set using the --define command-line option.

Config Include Path

When including files you can specify that the include search path should be checked. You can do this by putting your configuration file name in angle brackets like this:

include <test.conf>

This would cause Icinga 2 to search its include path for the configuration file test.conf. By default the installation path for the Icinga Template Library is the only search directory.

Using the --include command-line option additional search directories can be added.

Config Files

Using the --config option you can specify one or more configuration files. Config files are processed in the order they're specified on the command-line.

When no configuration file is specified and the --no-config is not used Icinga 2 automatically falls back to using the configuration file SysconfDir + "/icinga2/icinga2.conf" (where SysconfDir is usually /etc).

Config Validation

The --validate option can be used to check if your configuration files contain errors. If any errors are found the exit status is 1, otherwise 0 is returned.

Enabling/Disabling Features

Icinga 2 provides configuration files for some commonly used features. These are installed in the /etc/icinga2/features-available directory and can be enabled and disabled using the icinga2 feature enable and icinga2 feature disable tools, respectively.

The icinga2 feature enable tool creates symlinks in the /etc/icinga2/features-enabled directory which is included by default in the example configuration file.

You can view a list of available feature configuration files:

# icinga2 feature enable
Syntax: icinga2 feature enable <feature>
Enables the specified feature.

Available features: statusdata

Using the icinga2 feature enable command you can enable features:

# icinga2 feature enable statusdata
Module 'statusdata' was enabled.
Make sure to restart Icinga 2 for these changes to take effect.

You can disable features using the icinga2 feature disable command:

# icinga2 feature disable statusdata
Module 'statusdata' was disabled.
Make sure to restart Icinga 2 for these changes to take effect.

The icinga2 feature enable and icinga2 feature disable commands do not restart Icinga 2. You will need to restart Icinga 2 using the init script after enabling or disabling features.

Configuration Validation

Once you've edited the configuration files make sure to tell Icinga 2 to validate the configuration changes. Icinga 2 will log any configuration error including a hint on the file, the line number and the affected configuration line itself.

The following example creates an apply rule without any assign condition.

apply Service "5872-ping4" {
  import "test-generic-service"
  check_command = "ping4"
  //assign where match("5872-*", host.name)
}

Validate the configuration with the init script option checkconfig

# /etc/init.d/icinga2 checkconfig

or manually passing the -C argument:

# /usr/sbin/icinga2 daemon -c /etc/icinga2/icinga2.conf -C

[2014-05-22 17:07:25 +0200] critical/ConfigItem: Location:
/etc/icinga2/conf.d/tests/5872.conf(5): }
/etc/icinga2/conf.d/tests/5872.conf(6):
/etc/icinga2/conf.d/tests/5872.conf(7): apply Service "5872-ping4" {
                                        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
/etc/icinga2/conf.d/tests/5872.conf(8):   import "test-generic-service"
/etc/icinga2/conf.d/tests/5872.conf(9):   check_command = "ping4"

Config error: 'apply' is missing 'assign'
[2014-05-22 17:07:25 +0200] critical/ConfigItem: 1 errors, 0 warnings.
Icinga 2 detected configuration errors.

Reload on Configuration Changes

Everytime you have changed your configuration you should first tell Icinga 2 to validate. If there are no validation errors you can safely reload the Icinga 2 daemon.

# /etc/init.d/icinga2 reload

Note

The reload action will send the SIGHUP signal to the Icinga 2 daemon which will validate the configuration in a separate process and not stop the other events like check execution, notifications, etc.

Details can be found here.

Vagrant Demo VM

The Icinga Vagrant Git repository contains support for Vagrant with VirtualBox. Please note that Vagrant version 1.0.x is not supported. At least version 1.2.x is required.

In order to build the Vagrant VM first you will have to check out the Git repository:

$ git clone git://git.icinga.org/icinga-vagrant.git

For Icinga 2 there are currently two scenarios available:

icinga2x bringing up a standalone box with Icinga 2
icinga2x-cluster setting up two virtual machines in a master/slave cluster

Note

Please consult the README.md file for each project for further installation details at [https://github.com/Icinga/icinga-vagrant]

Once you have checked out the Git repository navigate to your required vagrant box and build the VM using the following command:

$ vagrant up

The Vagrant VMs are based on CentOS 6.x and are using the official Icinga 2 RPM snapshot packages from packages.icinga.org. The check plugins are installed from EPEL providing RPMs with sources from the Monitoring Plugins project.

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Getting Started

Setting up Icinga 2

Installing Requirements for Icinga 2

Installing Icinga 2

Enabled Features during Installation

Installation Paths

Setting up Check Plugins

Integrate Additional Plugins

Configuring Icinga 2: First Steps

icinga2.conf

constants.conf

zones.conf

localhost.conf

Configuring DB IDO

Installing the Database Server

Installing MySQL database server

Installing PostgreSQL database server

Configuring DB IDO MySQL

Setting up the MySQL database

Upgrading the MySQL database

Installing the IDO MySQL module

Configuring DB IDO PostgreSQL

Setting up the PostgreSQL database

Upgrading the PostgreSQL database

Installing the IDO PostgreSQL module

Setting Up External Command Pipe

Setting up Livestatus

Setting up Icinga 2 User Interfaces

Requirements

Webserver

Firewall Rules

Setting up Icinga Classic UI

Installing Icinga Classic UI

Setting Up Icinga Classic UI Summary

Setting up Icinga Web

Installing Icinga Web

Icinga Web on RPM based systems

Icinga Web on Debian systems

Setting Up Icinga Web Summary

Setting up Icinga Web 2

Additional visualization

Configuration Tools

Configuration Syntax Highlighting

Configuration Syntax Highlighting using Vim

Configuration Syntax Highlighting using Nano

Running Icinga 2

Init Script

Systemd Service

Command-line Options

Libraries

Constants

Config Include Path

Config Files

Config Validation

Enabling/Disabling Features

Configuration Validation

Reload on Configuration Changes

Vagrant Demo VM

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