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# <a id="about"></a> About Icinga Web 2
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Icinga Web 2 is a powerful PHP framework for web applications that comes in a clean and reduced design.
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It's fast, responsive, accessible and easily extensible with modules.
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## <a id="about-monitoring"></a> The monitoring module
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This is the core module for most Icinga Web 2 users.
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It provides an intuitive user interface for monitoring with Icinga (1 and 2).
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Especially there are lots of list and detail views (e.g. for hosts and services)
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you can sort and filter depending on what you want to see.
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You can also control the monitoring process itself by sending external commands to Icinga.
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Most such actions (like rescheduling a check) can be done with just a single click.
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## <a id="about-installation"></a> Installation
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Icinga Web 2 can be installed easily from packages from the official package repositories.
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Setting it up is also easy with the web based setup wizard.
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See [here](installation#installation) for more information about the installation.
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## <a id="about-configuration"></a> Configuration
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Icinga Web 2 can be configured via the user interface and .ini files.
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See [here](configuration#configuration) for more information about the configuration.
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## <a id="about-authentication"></a> Authentication
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With Icinga Web 2 you can authenticate against relational databases, LDAP and more.
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These authentication methods can be easily configured (via the corresponding .ini file).
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See [here](authentication#authentication) for more information about
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the different authentication methods available and how to configure them.
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## <a id="about-authorization"></a> Authorization
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In Icinga Web 2 there are permissions and restrictions to allow and deny (respectively)
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roles to view or to do certain things.
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These roles can be assigned to users and groups.
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See [here](security#security) for more information about authorization
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and how to configure roles.
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## <a id="about-preferences"></a> User preferences
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Besides the global configuration each user has individual configuration options
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like the interface's language or the current timezone.
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They can be stored either in a database or in .ini files.
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See [here](preferences#preferences) for more information about a user's preferences
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and how to configure their storage type.
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## <a id="about-documentation"></a> Documentation
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With the documentation module you can read the documentation of the framework (and any module) directly in the user interface.
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The module can also export the documentation to PDF.
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## <a id="about-translation"></a> Translation
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With the translation module every piece of text in the user interface (of the framework itself and any module) can be translated to a language of your choice.
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Currently provided languages:
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* German
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* Italian
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* Portuguese
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