# Installing Icinga 2
-The recommended way of installing Icinga 2 is to use packages. The Icinga
-project provides both release and development packages for a number
+The recommended way of installing Icinga 2 is to use [packages](https://packages.icinga.com).
+The Icinga project provides both release and development packages for a number
of operating systems.
Please check the documentation in the [doc/](doc/) directory for a current list
of available packages and detailed installation instructions.
-The online documentation is available at [docs.icinga.com](https://docs.icinga.com)
+The online documentation is available on [icinga.com/docs](https://www.icinga.com/docs/)
and will guide you step by step.
There are a number of known caveats when installing from source such as
incorrect directory and file permissions. So even if you're planning to
not use the official packages it is advisable to build your own Debian
-or RPM packages.
+or RPM packages. You can use the source packages from [packages.icinga.com](https://packages.icinga.com)
+for this purpose.
-# Builds
+> **Disclaimer**
+>
+> This information is intended for developers and packagers. It might be incomplete or unclear
+> in some cases. Ensure to check our [packaging scripts on GitHub](https://github.com/Icinga/icinga-packaging) too!
-This information is intended for developers and packagers.
-
-## Build Requirements
+# Build Requirements
The following requirements need to be fulfilled in order to build the
-application using a dist tarball (package names for RHEL and Debian in
-parentheses):
+application using a dist tarball (including notes for distributions):
* cmake >= 2.6
-* GNU make (make)
-* C++ compiler which supports C++11 (gcc-c++ >= 4.7 on RHEL/SUSE, build-essential on Debian, alternatively clang++, build-base on Alpine)
- * RedHat Developer Tools on RHEL5/6 (details on building below)
+* GNU make (make) or ninja-build
+* C++ compiler which supports C++11
+ - RHEL/Fedora/SUSE: gcc-c++ >= 4.7 (extra Developer Tools on RHEL5/6 see below)
+ - Debian/Ubuntu: build-essential
+ - Alpine: build-base
+ - you can also use clang++
* pkg-config
-* OpenSSL library and header files >= 0.9.8 (openssl-devel on RHEL, libopenssl1-devel on SLES11,
-libopenssl-devel on SLES12, libssl-dev on Debian, libressl-dev on Alpine)
-* Boost library and header files >= 1.48.0 (boost148-devel on EPEL for RHEL / CentOS, libboost-all-dev on Debian, boost-dev on Alpine)
+* OpenSSL library and header files >= 1.0.1
+ - RHEL/Fedora: openssl-devel
+ - SUSE: libopenssl-devel (for SLES 11: libopenssl1-devel)
+ - Debian/Ubuntu: libssl-dev
+ - Alpine: libressl-dev
+* Boost library and header files >= 1.48.0
+ - RHEL/Fedora: boost148-devel
+ - Debian/Ubuntu: libboost-all-dev
+ - Alpine: boost-dev
* GNU bison (bison)
* GNU flex (flex) >= 2.5.35
-* recommended: libexecinfo on FreeBSD (automatically used when Icinga 2 is
- installed via port or package)
-* optional: MySQL (mysql-devel on RHEL, libmysqlclient-devel on SUSE, libmysqlclient-dev until Debian 8 jessie / default-libmysqlclient-dev from Debian 9 stretch, mariadb-dev on Alpine);
- set CMake variable `ICINGA2_WITH_MYSQL` to `OFF` to disable this module
-* optional: PostgreSQL (postgresql-devel on RHEL, libpq-dev on Debian, postgresql-dev on Alpine); set CMake
- variable `ICINGA2_WITH_PGSQL` to `OFF` to disable this module
-* optional: YAJL (yajl-devel on RHEL, libyajl-dev on Debian, yajl-dev on Alpine)
-* optional: libedit (libedit-devel on CentOS (RHEL requires rhel-7-server-optional-rpms
- repository for el7 e.g.), libedit-dev on Debian and Alpine)
-* optional: Termcap (libtermcap-devel on RHEL, not necessary on Debian) - only
- required if libedit doesn't already link against termcap/ncurses
-* optional: libwxgtk2.8-dev or newer (wxGTK-devel and wxBase) - only required when building the Icinga 2 Studio
-
-Note: RHEL5 ships an ancient flex version. Updated packages are available for
-example from the repoforge buildtools repository.
-
-* x86: https://mirror.hs-esslingen.de/repoforge/redhat/el5/en/i386/buildtools/
-* x86\_64: https://mirror.hs-esslingen.de/repoforge/redhat/el5/en/x86\_64/buildtools/
-
-### User Requirements
-
-By default Icinga will run as user 'icinga' and group 'icinga'. Additionally the
+* Systemd headers
+ - Only required when using Systemd
+ - Debian/Ubuntu: libsystemd-dev
+ - RHEL/Fedora: systemd-devel
+
+## Optional features
+
+* MySQL (disable with CMake variable `ICINGA2_WITH_MYSQL` to `OFF`)
+ - RHEL/Fedora: mysql-devel
+ - SUSE: libmysqlclient-devel
+ - Debian/Ubuntu: default-libmysqlclient-dev | libmysqlclient-dev
+ - Alpine: mariadb-dev
+* PostgreSQL (disable with CMake variable `ICINGA2_WITH_PGSQL` to `OFF`)
+ - RHEL/Fedora: postgresql-devel
+ - Debian/Ubuntu: libpq-dev
+ - postgresql-dev on Alpine
+* YAJL (Faster JSON library)
+ - RHEL/Fedora: yajl-devel
+ - Debian: libyajl-dev
+ - Alpine: yajl-dev
+* libedit (CLI console)
+ - RHEL/Fedora: libedit-devel on CentOS (RHEL requires rhel-7-server-optional-rpms)
+ - Debian/Ubuntu/Alpine: libedit-dev
+* Termcap (only required if libedit doesn't already link against termcap/ncurses)
+ - RHEL/Fedora: libtermcap-devel
+ - Debian/Ubuntu: (not necessary)
+
+## Special requirements
+
+**FreeBSD**: libexecinfo (automatically used when Icinga 2 is installed via port or package)
+
+**RHEL6**: Requires a newer boost version which is available on packages.icinga.com
+with a version suffixed name.
+
+## Runtime user environment
+
+By default Icinga will run as user `icinga` and group `icinga`. Additionally the
external command pipe and livestatus features require a dedicated command group
-'icingacmd'. You can choose your own user/group names and pass them to CMake
+`icingacmd`. You can choose your own user/group names and pass them to CMake
using the `ICINGA2_USER`, `ICINGA2_GROUP` and `ICINGA2_COMMAND_GROUP` variables.
- # groupadd icinga
- # groupadd icingacmd
- # useradd -c "icinga" -s /sbin/nologin -G icingacmd -g icinga icinga
+```
+# groupadd icinga
+# groupadd icingacmd
+# useradd -c "icinga" -s /sbin/nologin -G icingacmd -g icinga icinga
+```
On Alpine (which uses ash busybox) you can run:
- # addgroup -S icinga
- # addgroup -S icingacmd
- # adduser -S -D -H -h /var/spool/icinga2 -s /sbin/nologin -G icinga -g icinga icinga
- # adduser icinga icingacmd
+```
+# addgroup -S icinga
+# addgroup -S icingacmd
+# adduser -S -D -H -h /var/spool/icinga2 -s /sbin/nologin -G icinga -g icinga icinga
+# adduser icinga icingacmd
+```
Add the web server user to the icingacmd group in order to grant it write
permissions to the external command pipe and livestatus socket:
-
- # usermod -a -G icingacmd www-data
+```
+# usermod -a -G icingacmd www-data
+```
Make sure to replace "www-data" with the name of the user your web server
is running as.
-## Building Icinga 2
+# Building Icinga 2
Once you have installed all the necessary build requirements you can build
Icinga 2 using the following commands:
- $ mkdir build && cd build
- $ cmake ..
- $ make
- $ make install
+```
+$ mkdir release && cd release
+$ cmake ..
+$ cd ..
+$ make -C release
+$ make install -C release
+```
You can specify an alternative installation prefix using `-DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX`:
- $ cmake .. -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/tmp/icinga2
+```
+$ cmake .. -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/tmp/icinga2
+```
+
+## CMake Variables
+
+In addition to `CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX` here are most of the supported Icinga-specific cmake variables.
+
+For all variables regarding defaults paths on in CMake, see
+[GNUInstallDirs](https://cmake.org/cmake/help/latest/module/GNUInstallDirs.html).
-In addition to `CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX` the following Icinga-specific cmake
-variables are supported:
+Also see `CMakeLists.txt` for details.
+**System Environment**
+- `CMAKE_INSTALL_SYSCONFDIR`: The configuration directory; defaults to `CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX/etc`
+- `CMAKE_INSTALL_LOCALSTATEDIR`: The state directory; defaults to `CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX/var`
+- `ICINGA2_CONFIGDIR`: Main config directory; defaults to `CMAKE_INSTALL_SYSCONFDIR/icinga2` usually `/etc/icinga2`
+- `ICINGA2_CACHEDIR`: Directory for cache files; defaults to `CMAKE_INSTALL_LOCALSTATEDIR/cache/icinga2` usually `/var/cache/icinga2`
+- `ICINGA2_DATADIR`: Data directory for the daemon; defaults to `CMAKE_INSTALL_LOCALSTATEDIR/lib/icinga2` usually `/var/lib/icinga2`
+- `ICINGA2_LOGDIR`: Logfiles of the daemon; defaults to `CMAKE_INSTALL_LOCALSTATEDIR/log/icinga2 usually `/var/log/icinga2`
+- `ICINGA2_SPOOLDIR`: Spooling directory ; defaults to `CMAKE_INSTALL_LOCALSTATEDIR/spool/icinga2` usually `/var/spool/icinga2`
+- `ICINGA2_INITRUNDIR`: Runtime data for the init system; defaults to `CMAKE_INSTALL_LOCALSTATEDIR/run/icinga2` usually `/run/icinga2`
+- `ICINGA2_GIT_VERSION_INFO`: Whether to use Git to determine the version number; defaults to `ON`
- `ICINGA2_USER`: The user Icinga 2 should run as; defaults to `icinga`
- `ICINGA2_GROUP`: The group Icinga 2 should run as; defaults to `icinga`
-- `ICINGA2_GIT_VERSION_INFO`: Whether to use Git to determine the version number; defaults to `ON`
- `ICINGA2_COMMAND_GROUP`: The command group Icinga 2 should use; defaults to `icingacmd`
-- `ICINGA2_UNITY_BUILD`: Whether to perform a unity build; defaults to `ON`
-- `ICINGA2_LTO_BUILD`: Whether to use link time optimization (LTO); defaults to `OFF`
-- `ICINGA2_PLUGINDIR`: The path for the Monitoring Plugins project binaries; defaults to `/usr/lib/nagios/plugins`
-- `ICINGA2_RUNDIR`: The location of the "run" directory; defaults to `CMAKE_INSTALL_LOCALSTATEDIR/run`
-- `CMAKE_INSTALL_SYSCONFDIR`: The configuration directory; defaults to `CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX/etc`
- `ICINGA2_SYSCONFIGFILE`: Where to put the config file the initscript/systemd pulls it's dirs from;
-defaults to `CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX/etc/sysconfig/icinga2`
-- `CMAKE_INSTALL_LOCALSTATEDIR`: The state directory; defaults to `CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX/var`
+ defaults to `CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX/etc/sysconfig/icinga2`
+- `ICINGA2_PLUGINDIR`: The path for the Monitoring Plugins project binaries; defaults to `/usr/lib/nagios/plugins`
+
+**Build Optimization**
+- `ICINGA2_UNITY_BUILD`: Whether to perform a unity build; defaults to `ON`. Note: This requires additional memory and is not advised for building VMs, Docker for Mac and embedded hardware.
+- `ICINGA2_LTO_BUILD`: Whether to use link time optimization (LTO); defaults to `OFF`
+
+**Init System**
- `USE_SYSTEMD=ON|OFF`: Use systemd or a classic SysV initscript; defaults to `OFF`
- `INSTALL_SYSTEMD_SERVICE_AND_INITSCRIPT=ON|OFF` Force install both the systemd service definition file
-and the SysV initscript in parallel, regardless of how `USE_SYSTEMD` is set.
-Only use this for special packaging purposes and if you know what you are doing.
-Defaults to `OFF`.
-- `ICINGA2_WITH_MYSQL`: Determines whether the MySQL IDO module is built; defaults to `ON`
-- `ICINGA2_WITH_PGSQL`: Determines whether the PostgreSQL IDO module is built; defaults to `ON`
+ and the SysV initscript in parallel, regardless of how `USE_SYSTEMD` is set.
+ Only use this for special packaging purposes and if you know what you are doing.
+ Defaults to `OFF`.
+
+**Features:**
- `ICINGA2_WITH_CHECKER`: Determines whether the checker module is built; defaults to `ON`
- `ICINGA2_WITH_COMPAT`: Determines whether the compat module is built; defaults to `ON`
- `ICINGA2_WITH_DEMO`: Determines whether the demo module is built; defaults to `OFF`
- `ICINGA2_WITH_LIVESTATUS`: Determines whether the Livestatus module is built; defaults to `ON`
- `ICINGA2_WITH_NOTIFICATION`: Determines whether the notification module is built; defaults to `ON`
- `ICINGA2_WITH_PERFDATA`: Determines whether the perfdata module is built; defaults to `ON`
-- `ICINGA2_WITH_STUDIO`: Determines whether the Icinga Studio application is built; defaults to `OFF`
- `ICINGA2_WITH_TESTS`: Determines whether the unit tests are built; defaults to `ON`
+**MySQL or MariaDB:**
+
+The following settings can be tuned for the MySQL / MariaDB IDO feature.
+
+- `ICINGA2_WITH_MYSQL`: Determines whether the MySQL IDO module is built; defaults to `ON`
+- `MYSQL_CLIENT_LIBS`: Client implementation used (mysqlclient / mariadbclient); defaults searches for `mysqlclient` and `mariadbclient`
+- `MYSQL_INCLUDE_DIR`: Directory containing include files for the mysqlclient; default empty -
+ checking multiple paths like `/usr/include/mysql`
+
+See [FindMySQL.cmake](third-party/cmake/FindMySQL.cmake) for the implementation.
+
+**PostgreSQL:**
+
+The following settings can be tuned for the PostgreSQL IDO feature.
+
+- `ICINGA2_WITH_PGSQL`: Determines whether the PostgreSQL IDO module is built; defaults to `ON`
+- `PostgreSQL_INCLUDE_DIR`: Top-level directory containing the PostgreSQL include directories
+- `PostgreSQL_LIBRARY`: File path to PostgreSQL library : libpq.so (or libpq.so.[ver] file)
+
+See [FindMySQL.cmake](third-party/cmake/FindPostgreSQL.cmake) for the implementation.
+
+**Version detection:**
+
CMake determines the Icinga 2 version number using `git describe` if the
source directory is contained in a Git repository. Otherwise the version number
is extracted from the [VERSION](VERSION) file. This behavior can be
directory. Alternatively the `-DICINGA2_GIT_VERSION_INFO=OFF` option for CMake
can be used to disable the usage of `git describe`.
-## Build Icinga 2 RPMs
+# Building packages
+
+> **WARNING:** Some of this information is outdated!
+
+## Building RPMs
### Build Environment on RHEL, CentOS, Fedora, Amazon Linux
Setup your build environment:
-
- yum -y install rpmdevtools
+```
+yum -y install rpmdevtools
+```
### Build Environment on SuSE/SLES
SLES:
-
- zypper addrepo http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:tools/SLE_12_SP2/devel:tools.repo
- zypper refresh
- zypper install rpmdevtools spectool
+```
+zypper addrepo http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:tools/SLE_12_SP2/devel:tools.repo
+zypper refresh
+zypper install rpmdevtools spectool
+```
OpenSuSE:
-
- zypper addrepo http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:tools/openSUSE_Leap_42.3/devel:tools.repo
- zypper refresh
- zypper install rpmdevtools spectool
+```
+zypper addrepo http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:tools/openSUSE_Leap_42.3/devel:tools.repo
+zypper refresh
+zypper install rpmdevtools spectool
+```
### Package Builds
Prepare the rpmbuild directory tree:
-
- cd $HOME
- rpmdev-setuptree
+```
+cd $HOME
+rpmdev-setuptree
+```
Copy the icinga2.spec file to `rpmbuild/SPEC` or fetch the latest version:
-
```
curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Icinga/rpm-icinga2/master/icinga2.spec -o $HOME/rpmbuild/SPECS/icinga2.spec
```
+> **Note**
+>
+> The above command builds snapshot packages. Change to the `release` branch
+> for release package builds.
+
Copy the tarball to `rpmbuild/SOURCES` e.g. by using the `spectool` binary
provided with `rpmdevtools`:
+```
+cd $HOME/rpmbuild/SOURCES
+spectool -g ../SPECS/icinga2.spec
- cd $HOME/rpmbuild/SOURCES
- spectool -g ../SPECS/icinga2.spec
-
- cd $HOME/rpmbuild
+cd $HOME/rpmbuild
+```
Install the build dependencies. Example for CentOS 7:
-
- yum -y install libedit-devel ncurses-devel gcc-c++ libstdc++-devel openssl-devel \
- cmake flex bison boost-devel systemd mysql-devel postgresql-devel httpd \
- selinux-policy-devel checkpolicy selinux-policy selinux-policy-doc
+```
+yum -y install libedit-devel ncurses-devel gcc-c++ libstdc++-devel openssl-devel \
+cmake flex bison boost-devel systemd mysql-devel postgresql-devel httpd \
+selinux-policy-devel checkpolicy selinux-policy selinux-policy-doc
+```
Note: If you are using Amazon Linux, systemd is not required.
A shorter way is available using the `yum-builddep` command on RHEL based systems:
-
- yum-builddep SPECS/icinga2.spec
+```
+yum-builddep SPECS/icinga2.spec
+```
Build the RPM:
-
- rpmbuild -ba SPECS/icinga2.spec
+```
+rpmbuild -ba SPECS/icinga2.spec
+```
### Additional Hints
* selinux-policy (selinux-policy on CentOS 6, selinux-policy-devel on CentOS 7)
* selinux-policy-doc
-#### RHEL/CentOS 5 and 6
+#### RHEL/CentOS 6
The RedHat Developer Toolset is required for building Icinga 2 beforehand.
This contains a modern version of flex and a C++ compiler which supports
C++11 features.
-
- cat >/etc/yum.repos.d/devtools-2.repo <<REPO
- [testing-devtools-2-centos-\$releasever]
- name=testing 2 devtools for CentOS $releasever
- baseurl=https://people.centos.org/tru/devtools-2/\$releasever/\$basearch/RPMS
- gpgcheck=0
- REPO
+```
+cat >/etc/yum.repos.d/devtools-2.repo <<REPO
+[testing-devtools-2-centos-\$releasever]
+name=testing 2 devtools for CentOS $releasever
+baseurl=https://people.centos.org/tru/devtools-2/\$releasever/\$basearch/RPMS
+gpgcheck=0
+REPO
+```
Dependencies to devtools-2 are used in the RPM SPEC, so the correct tools
should be used for building.
As an alternative, you can use newer Boost packages provided on
[packages.icinga.com](https://packages.icinga.com/epel).
-
- cat >$HOME/.rpmmacros <<MACROS
- %build_icinga_org 1
- MACROS
+```
+cat >$HOME/.rpmmacros <<MACROS
+%build_icinga_org 1
+MACROS
+```
#### Amazon Linux
The Icinga repository provides the required boost package version and must be
added before building.
-## Build Icinga 2 Debian/Ubuntu packages
+## Build Debian/Ubuntu packages
+
+> **WARNING:** This information is outdated!
Setup your build environment on Debian/Ubuntu, copy the 'debian' directory from
-the Debian packaging Git repository (https://github.com/Icinga/pkg-icinga2-debian)
+the Debian packaging Git repository (https://github.com/Icinga/deb-icinga2)
into your source tree and run the following command:
-
- $ dpkg-buildpackage -uc -us
-
+```
+$ dpkg-buildpackage -uc -us
+```
## Build Alpine Linux packages
Once the build environment is installed, you can setup the system to build
the packages by following [this document](https://wiki.alpinelinux.org/wiki/Creating_an_Alpine_package).
-## Build Post Install Tasks
+# Build Post Install Tasks
After building Icinga 2 yourself, your package build system should at least run the following post
install requirements:
Icinga 2 comes with a binary that takes care of loading all the relevant
components (e.g. for check execution, notifications, etc.):
-
- # icinga2 daemon
- [2016-12-08 16:44:24 +0100] information/cli: Icinga application loader (version: v2.5.4-231-gb10a6b7; debug)
- [2016-12-08 16:44:24 +0100] information/cli: Loading configuration file(s).
- [2016-12-08 16:44:25 +0100] information/ConfigItem: Committing config item(s).
- ...
+```
+# icinga2 daemon
+[2016-12-08 16:44:24 +0100] information/cli: Icinga application loader (version: v2.5.4-231-gb10a6b7; debug)
+[2016-12-08 16:44:24 +0100] information/cli: Loading configuration file(s).
+[2016-12-08 16:44:25 +0100] information/ConfigItem: Committing config item(s).
+...
+```
### Init Script
Icinga 2 can be started as a daemon using the provided init script:
-
- # /etc/init.d/icinga2
- Usage: /etc/init.d/icinga2 {start|stop|restart|reload|checkconfig|status}
+```
+# /etc/init.d/icinga2
+Usage: /etc/init.d/icinga2 {start|stop|restart|reload|checkconfig|status}
+```
### Systemd
If your distribution uses Systemd:
-
- # systemctl {start|stop|reload|status|enable|disable} icinga2
+```
+# systemctl {start|stop|reload|status|enable|disable} icinga2
+```
In case the distribution is running Systemd >227, you'll also
need to package and install the `etc/initsystem/icinga2.service.limits.conf`
### openrc
Or if your distribution uses openrc (like Alpine):
-
- # rc-service icinga2
- Usage: /etc/init.d/icinga2 {start|stop|restart|reload|checkconfig|status}
+```
+# rc-service icinga2
+Usage: /etc/init.d/icinga2 {start|stop|restart|reload|checkconfig|status}
+ ```
Note: the openrc's init.d is not shipped by default.
-A working init.d with openrc can be found here: (https://git.alpinelinux.org/cgit/aports/plain/community/icinga2/icinga2.initd). If you have customized some path, edit the file and adjust it according with your setup.
+A working init.d with openrc can be found here: (https://git.alpinelinux.org/cgit/aports/plain/community/icinga2/icinga2.initd). If you have customized some path, edit the file and adjust it according with your setup.
Those few steps can be followed:
-
- # wget https://git.alpinelinux.org/cgit/aports/plain/community/icinga2/icinga2.initd
- # mv icinga2.initd /etc/init.d/icinga2
- # chmod +x /etc/init.d/icinga2
+```
+# wget https://git.alpinelinux.org/cgit/aports/plain/community/icinga2/icinga2.initd
+# mv icinga2.initd /etc/init.d/icinga2
+# chmod +x /etc/init.d/icinga2
+```
Icinga 2 reads a single configuration file which is used to specify all
configuration settings (global settings, hosts, services, etc.). The
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