Talk by Bernd Erk at Icinga Camp Berlin 2016 about Icinga Web 2

1. www.icinga.org
ICINGA WEB 2
#Icingacamp – Berlin – 2016 March 1st

3. ICINGA WEB 2 2.2.0
RELEASED ON FEB 29, 2016

4. Quick Poll

5. MOTIVATION

6. Old Fart

9. • Not extendable
• Lacks real user management
• Not useable on mobile devices
• Has to run on the core machine
• Heavy I/O

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

12. • Another application to maintain
• Lacks features
• No active development

13. LESSONS LEARNED

14. • Keep framework overhead at a minimum
• Usable on any device
• Easy to set up and use
• No manual cache management
• Easy API

15. ARCHITECTURE

16. Web 2
Monitoring Docs
BP NagVis PNP

17. KEY FEATURES

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

19. • Easy to extend and embed
• Simple INI configuration
• Small footprint, fast and responsive

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

21. • 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

22. • Supports Icinga 1.x and Icinga 2.x
• Supports MySQL and PostgreSQL
• Basic API with JSON and CSV export
• URL filters

23. icingaweb2/monitoring/list/service
s?service_problem=1&format=json

27. Demo

28. OUR VISION

30. ROADMAP

31. • Modules, modules, modules, ...
• More API actions
• exchange.icinga.org integration

32. THANK YOU!
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