On 08.04.2013 15:34, Kinninger, Jason wrote: > I am currently working on a new project which consists of upgrading our > current Nagios environment. I doing so I would like to change Nagios > over to Icinga because Icinga appears to have better usability within > the web UI. I’ve noticed the forums are not all English, > monitoring-portal.org, and was wondering what is the best method of > communication? This mailing list?
You may choose this mailing list, but also hop onto monitoring-portal.org - noone bites you when writing English over there. You'll find me as 'dnsmichi' and may recognize answers in both, German and English. Other than that, quick help may be provided during a chat on irc.freenode.net #icinga - but that's up to you. I wouldn't suggest social media like twitter/facebook/linkedin/xing as they are a bit limited - either in audience or characters per post. So likely, you feel comfortable here. > > Anyways, back to my original topic pertaining to Icinga. What is the > best or recommended method of migrating from Nagios to Icinga? That highly depends on some important bits - installation method (source or package) - which addons are installed and may be required to be migrated as well - plans of migration - new server, or same platform - historical data - in which detail should it be migrated the docs hold some basic upgrade information which may help you. http://docs.icinga.org/latest/en/upgrading.html#upgradenagios3x to note, that focuses on the source install, paths will differ on package installs. someone previously asked to migrate on this mailinglist, so i copied my reponse into a more details wiki article (could be incomplete) https://wiki.icinga.org/display/howtos/Migrate+from+Nagios+to+Icinga if you're seeking packages, the wiki holds some more details on suse packages and their file locations. https://wiki.icinga.org/display/howtos/Setting+up+Icinga+with+IDOUtils+on+SuSE https://wiki.icinga.org/display/howtos/Setting+up+Icinga+Web+on+SuSE > I am > currently running an old version, 3.0.6 on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server. > We are a SUSE shop and this was a hand me down system. It has taken me a > little while to figure out how everything works and I still don’t have > everything down pat but continue to learn. I have quite a bit of clean > up as many of the contacts are no longer with the company so was also > wondering if I can tie this into Active Directory. If you mean authentication, you can put an auth provider to Icinga Web to look into your AD and have the users authenticate against it. Check the documentation on auth.xml for some insights. You're not bound to the old-known "a user must be a contact for the host/service in order to see it in the gui" - you can, if you want to have the exact same behaviour. The Icinga Classic UI still requires that way - http://docs.icinga.org/latest/en/cgiauth.html Within Icinga Web, you can nail that down to *groups or custom variables, customized on a per user basis, stored in the Icinga Web database. Even have custom cronks (widgets) saved and shared with other users. > > Another question I had was should I stick with the 1.8 version or start > off with Icinga 2? Icinga 2 is under heavy development, and yet we haven't finished milestone 2. The release target is still Q4 2013 but right now, it's more of a testing stage. Milestone 2 should allow everyone to test basic features known from 1.x while adding new things like the configuration format and other stuff. Still, that's gonna happen somewhere in the next weeks. Basically, 1.8.x has been proven stable, and if you're brave you'll await 1.9 (due on 25.4. if nothing bad happens). > > I am sure I’ll be posting quite a bit here unless there is an English > forum I am unaware of. As said, monitoring-portal.org is your choice when seeking a forum. Imho it does not make sense to add our own icinga forum and duplicate information platforms - as long as the portal supports icinga as topic, we're happy to stick there and some of team icinga are reading and helping out there as well. Not everyone is everywhere - except some strange people, like me for example. kind regards, Michael -- DI (FH) Michael Friedrich mail: [email protected] twitter: https://twitter.com/dnsmichi jabber: [email protected] irc: irc.freenode.net/icinga dnsmichi icinga open source monitoring position: lead core developer url: https://www.icinga.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Minimize network downtime and maximize team effectiveness. Reduce network management and security costs.Learn how to hire the most talented Cisco Certified professionals. Visit the Employer Resources Portal http://www.cisco.com/web/learning/employer_resources/index.html _______________________________________________ icinga-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/icinga-users
