4 Please note that the current version of Icinga 2 isn't much more than a tech
5 demo. Expect some rough edges when installing and running Icinga 2.
7 For the "finished" version we're planning to release packages for the most
8 common Linux distributions as well as for Windows - or at least co-operate
9 with the package maintainers.
11 Please check the documentation in the doc/ directory for a current list
12 of available packages.
17 The following requirements need to be fulfilled in order to build the
18 application using a dist tarball (package names for RHEL and Debian in
23 * C++ compiler (gcc-c++ on RHEL, build-essential on Debian)
24 * OpenSSL library and header files (openssl-devel on RHEL, libssl-dev
26 * Boost library and header files (boost-devel on RHEL, libboost-all-dev
29 * GNU flex (flex) >= 2.5.35
30 * optional: Doxygen (doxygen)
31 * optional: MySQL (mysql-devel on RHEL, libmysqlclient-dev on Debian)
32 * optional: Python (python-devel on RHEL, python-dev on Debian)
34 Note: RHEL5 ships an ancient flex version. Updated packages are available for
35 example from the repoforge buildtools repository.
37 http://mirror.hs-esslingen.de/repoforge/redhat/el5/en/{i386,x86_64}/buildtools/
43 By default Icinga will run as user 'icinga' and group 'icinga'. Additionally the
44 external command pipe and livestatus features require a dedicated command group
45 'icingacmd'. You can choose your own user/group names and pass them to the
46 configure script using the --with-icinga-user, --with-icinga-group,
47 --with-icingacmd-user and --with-icingacmd-group options.
51 # useradd -c "icinga" -s /sbin/nologin -G icingacmd -g icinga icinga
53 Add the web server user to the icingacmd group in order to grant it write
54 permissions to the external command pipe and livestatus socket:
56 # usermod -a -G icingacmd www-data
58 Make sure to replace "www-data" with the name of the user your web server
64 Once you have installed all the necessary build requirements you can build
65 Icinga 2 using the following commands:
67 $ mkdir build && cd build
72 You can specify an alternative installation prefix using -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX:
74 $ cmake .. -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/tmp/icinga2
76 In addition to CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX the following Icinga-specific cmake
77 variables are supported:
79 - ICINGA2_USER: The user Icinga 2 should run as; defaults to "icinga"
80 - ICINGA2_GROUP: The group Icinga 2 should run as; defaults to "icinga"
81 - ICINGA2_COMMAND_USER: The command user Icinga 2 should use; defaults to "icinga"
82 - ICINGA2_COMMAND_GROUP: The command group Icinga 2 should use; default to "icingacmd"
83 - CMAKE_INSTALL_SYSCONFDIR: The configuration directory; defaults to CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX/etc
84 - CMAKE_INSTALL_LOCALSTATEDIR: The state directory; defaults to CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX/var
89 Icinga 2 comes with a single binary that takes care of loading all the relevant
90 components (e.g. for check execution, notifications, etc.):
93 [2013-10-22 13:06:22 +0200] <Main Thread> information/icinga-app: Icinga application loader (version: 0.0.3, git branch master, commit 07d9a59f + changes)
94 [2013-10-22 13:06:22 +0200] <Main Thread> information/base: Adding library search dir: /usr/lib/icinga2
95 [2013-10-22 13:06:22 +0200] <Main Thread> information/base: Loading library 'libicinga.la'
96 [2013-10-22 13:06:22 +0200] <Main Thread> information/config: Adding include search dir: /usr/share/icinga2
97 [2013-10-22 13:06:22 +0200] <Main Thread> critical/icinga-app: You need to specify at least one config file (using the --config option).
99 Icinga 2 can be started as daemon using the provided init script:
101 # /etc/init.d/icinga2
102 Usage: /etc/init.d/icinga2 {start|stop|restart|reload|checkconfig|status}
104 Icinga 2 reads a single configuration file which is used to specify all
105 configuration settings (global settings, hosts, services, etc.). The
106 configuration format is explained in detail in the doc/ directory.
108 By default "make install" installs example configuration files in
109 /usr/local/etc/icinga2 unless you have specified a different prefix or
116 In order to create a snapshot tarball, create a new release directory outside
117 the source tree and run cmake and make. Replace <version> with the correct
121 $ mkdir icinga2-release && cd icinga2-release
122 $ cmake ../icinga2 -DCPACK_SOURCE_GENERATE=TGZ -DCPACK_SOURCE_PACKAGE_FILE_NAME=icinga2-<version>
123 $ make package_source