Eric Lippmanns talk about Icinga Web 2 at Icinga Camp Antwerp

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Icinga Camp – Antwerp
04/13/2015 Icinga Web 2

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Me
• Eric Lippmann
• Working @NETWAYS
• Icinga-web and Icinga Web 2 developer
• Started to contribute to the Icinga project in 2011
• github.com/lippser
• eric.lippmann@icinga.org

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What you see is what you get
• Motivation
• Features
• Modules
• Releases
• Demo

4. MOTIVATION

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Icinga Classic UI

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Icinga Classic UI
• Not extendable
• Lacks real user management
– Has authorization based on contacts but that’s not enough for
enterprise needs
• Not useable on mobile devices
• Has to run on the same machine as the core does
• Heavy I/O

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Icinga-web

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Icinga-web
• Complicated XML configuration
• Cached configuration
• Framework overhead
• Not useable on mobile devices
• Slow in big environments
• Complicated API

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Icinga Mobile
• One more application to
maintain
• Lacks features
• No active development

10. LESSONS LEARNED

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Lessons Learned
• Keep framework overhead at a minimum
• Usable on any device
• Easy to set up and use
• No cache that has to be manually cleared
• Easy API

12. KEY FEATURES

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Icinga Web 2 - Key Features
• Developed from scratch using
– PHP 5.3
– Zend Framework 1 and jQuery
• Vagrant it!
– $ git clone git://git.icinga.org/icingaweb2.git
– $ vagrant up

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Icinga Web 2 - Key Features
• Multiple authentication methods
– LDAP and DB
– Webserver
– You may chain them
• Easy to extend and embed into other projects
– It’s a framework actually
• Simple INI configuration
– All configuration can be done in the frontend

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Icinga Web 2 - Key Features
• Multiple Backends
– IDO using MySQL or Postgres
– Livestatus
– But no status.dat
– Supports Icinga 1.x and Icinga 2.x
• Small footprint, fast and responsive
• Advanced URL filters

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Icinga Web 2 - CLI

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Icinga Web 2 – Web Setup

18. RELEASES

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Icinga Web 2 - Releases
• Current released version is v2.0.0-beta3 (13.3.2015)
• Release Candidate 2.0.0-rc1 scheduled for late May 2015
• Supports all major distributions
• Supports Apache and nginx
• Packages available

20. MODULES

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Icinga Web 2 - Modules
• Integrate other tools
• Write your own module
• Use Icinga Web 2 in other projects

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Icinga Web 2 – Modules
• Currently online and in development
– PNP (Graphing)
– Business Process
– Generic TTS (Ticket System Intergration)
• Coming
– Graphite (Graphing)
– Logstash
– …

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Icinga Web 2 – PNP

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Icinga Web 2 - Business Processes

25. DEMO

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