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Preferences

Preferences are settings a user can set for his account only, for example his language and time zone.

Choosing Where to Store Preferences

Preferences can be stored either in INI files or in a MySQL or in a PostgreSQL database. By default, Icinga Web 2 stores preferences in INI files beneath Icinga Web 2's configuration directory.

Configuration

Where to store preferences is defined in the INI file config/config.ini in the preferences section.

Store Preferences in INI Files

If preferences are stored in INI Files, Icinga Web 2 automatically creates one file per user using the username as file name for storing preferences. A INI file is created once a user saves changed preferences the first time. The files are located beneath the preferences directory beneath Icinga Web 2's configuration directory.

For storing preferences in INI files you have to add the following section to the INI file config/config.ini:

[preferences]
type = ini

Store Preferences in a Database

In order to be more flexible in distributed setups you can store preferences in a MySQL or in a PostgreSQL database. For storing preferences in a database, you have to define a database resource which will be referenced as resource for the preferences storage.

Directive	Description
type	`db`
resource	The name of the database resource defined in resources.ini.

Example:

[preferences]
type     = db
resource = icingaweb-mysql

Database Setup

For storing preferences in a database, you have to import one of the following database schemas:

etc/schema/preferences.mysql.sql (for MySQL database)
etc/schema/preferences.pgsql.sql (for PostgreSQL databases)

After that you have to define the database resource.

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