Hi Daniel On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 03:53:16PM +0200, Daniel Keyhani wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Daniel Keyhani <dan...@keyhani.info> > > > * Package name : icinga > Version : 1.0.2 > Upstream Author : Icinga Development Team <i...@icinga.org> > * URL : http://www.icinga.org/ > * License : GPL > Programming Lang: C > Description : A host/service/network monitoring framework forked from > Nagios > > Icinga is an enterprise grade open source monitoring system which keeps watch > over a network and any > conceivable network resource, notifies the user of errors and recoveries, and > generates performance > data for reporting. Scalable and extensible, Icinga can monitor complex, > large environments across > dispersed locations. In a nutshell, Icinga allows you to: > > Monitor – any network and all its resources > > * Network services: SMTP, POP3, HTTP, SNMP, NNTP, PING, etc. > * Host resources: CPU load, disk utilization, system logs, etc > * Server components: Switches, routers, temperature and humidity sensors, > etc > > Notify – when issues arise and are resolved > > * Through any channel (Email, SMS, phone call, etc) > * Escalate alerts to other users or communication channels > * Fine tune notification settings (accounting for dependencies between > hosts & services) > > Report – on performance and plan ahead > > * Capacity utilization to plan for growth > * Chart graphs with addons like PNP or Grapher > > Icinga is a fork of Nagios and is backward compatible. So, Nagios > configurations, plugins and addons > can all be used with Icinga. Though Icinga retains all the existing features > of its predecessor, it > builds on them to add many long awaited patches and features requested by the > user community. > > ===== (the above text copy-pasted from the icinga.org About page ===== > > I propose to package the files from the main Icinga source distribution as > follos: > > icinga meta-package which installs icinga-core and icinga-cgi > icinga-core core icinga binary and basic configuratio > icinga-cgi "old" cgi web interface, arch-dependent files, depends on > icinga-html > icinga-html "old" cgi web interface, arch-independent files (HTML, JS etc.) > icinga-ido2db ido2db daemon and configuration for interfacing with an RDBMS > (optional) > icinga-api PHP API required for operation of the new web interface > (optional) > > Packaging and creation of basic config for icinga-core is essentially done. > The icinga-cgi > package needs work - the webapp best practices site appears to be > unavailable, and so far > the CGI binaries and their config are merely copied to appropriate locations. > The > icinga-ido2db package is ready, but I plan to use debconf to configure it > appropriately > for the RDBMS in use (mysql and pgsql are supported). The icinga-api package > is untested so far. > > Lintian reports a licensing problem due to GPL code linked with OpenSSL; this > is due to the > compiled-in optional SSL support for the idomod to ido2db communication. I > will try to have > the license changed appropriately, depending on whether this code uses the > Nagios license > or is Icinga-specific code, or build without SSL support. I may eventually > patch in GNUTLS > support if I do the latter.
Please note that icinga is already packaged for Debian:
rmadison icinga
icinga | 1.0.2-1 | testing | source, amd64, armel, hppa, i386,
ia64, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, sparc
icinga | 1.0.2-1 | unstable | source, alpha, amd64, armel, hppa,
i386, ia64, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, sparc
icinga | 1.0.3-1 | experimental | source, alpha, amd64, armel, i386,
ia64, mipsel, s390, sparc
HTH, bests
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