The document discusses Icinga Web 2, a monitoring frontend for Icinga. It provides an overview of the key features of Icinga Web 2 including being developed from scratch using PHP, Zend Framework and jQuery, having an easy to extend and embed design, role-based access control and supporting Icinga 1.x and 2.x. It also outlines the motivation for its development including limitations of the previous version and lessons learned.

1. www.icinga.org
Icinga Web 2
Icinga Camp - Portland – 10/10/15

2. • 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

3. ICINGA WEB 2 2.0.0
RELEASED ON OCT 2,
2015

4. Quick Poll

5. • Motivation
• Key Features
• Demo
• Roadmap

6. MOTIVATION

8. • 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

10. • Complicated XML configuration
• Cached configuration
• Framework overhead
• Not useable on mobile devices
• Complicated API

11. • One more application to
maintain
• Lacks features
• No active development

12. LESSONS LEARNED

13. • 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

14. KEY FEATURES

15. • Developed from scratch using
• PHP 5.3
• Zend Framework 1 and jQuery
• Vagrant it!
• git clone git://git.icinga.org/icingaweb2.git
• vagrant up

16. • Easy to extend and embed into other
projects
• Simple INI configuration
• All configuration can be done in the frontend
• Small footprint, fast and responsive

17. • Multiple authentication methods
• Active Directory, LDAP and DB
• Via Webserver, e.g. Kerberos
• May be chained

18. • Role based access control
• Permissions, e.g.
• Permit access to modules
• Permit access to configuration
• Permit Icinga commands
• Restrictions, e.g.
• Limit access to specific hosts and services

19. • Supports Icinga 1.x and Icinga 2.x
• Supports MySQL and PostgreSQL as IDO
backend
• No support for Livestatus and status.dat
• Basic API
• JSON and CSV export
• URL filters

20. icingaweb2/monitoring/list/services?service_pr
oblem=1&format=json

23. Demo

24. ROADMAP

25. • Modules, modules, modules, ...
• More API actions
• exchange.icinga.org integration
• No release date yet for 2.1.0

26. THANK YOU!
www.icinga.org
dev.icinga.org
git.icinga.org
@icinga
/icinga
+icinga