From: Michael Friedrich Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2014 17:22:19 +0000 (+0100) Subject: Documentation: Add a chapter about available Icinga 2 user interfaces. X-Git-Tag: v0.0.7~32 X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=7ca1c46364fab9d0b0cba449558c2294d83abe24;p=icinga2 Documentation: Add a chapter about available Icinga 2 user interfaces. Fixes #5498 --- diff --git a/doc/2.3-setting-up-check-plugins.md b/doc/2.2-setting-up-check-plugins.md similarity index 100% rename from doc/2.3-setting-up-check-plugins.md rename to doc/2.2-setting-up-check-plugins.md diff --git a/doc/2.2-setting-up-icinga-classic-ui.md b/doc/2.2-setting-up-icinga-classic-ui.md deleted file mode 100644 index 0ea89d180..000000000 --- a/doc/2.2-setting-up-icinga-classic-ui.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,30 +0,0 @@ -## Setting up Icinga Classic UI - -Icinga 2 can write `status.dat` and `objects.cache` files in the format that -is supported by the Icinga 1.x Classic UI. External commands (a.k.a. the -"command pipe") are also supported. It also supports writing Icinga 1.x -log files which are required for the reporting functionality in the Classic UI. - -### Installing Icinga Classic UI - -The Icinga package repository has both Debian and RPM packages. You can install -the Classic UI using the following packages: - - Distribution | Packages - --------------|--------------------- - Debian | icinga2-classicui - all others | icinga2-classicui-config icinga-gui - -> **Note** -> -> On all distributions other than Debian you may have to restart both your web -> server as well as Icinga 2 after installing the Classic UI package. - -Verify that your Icinga 1.x Classic UI works by browsing to your Classic -UI installation URL: - - Distribution | URL | Default Login - --------------|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|-------------------------- - Debian | [http://localhost/icinga2-classicui](http://localhost/icinga2-classicui) | asked during installation - all others | [http://localhost/icinga](http://localhost/icinga) | icingaadmin/icingaadmin - diff --git a/doc/2.4-setting-up-ido.md b/doc/2.3-setting-up-ido.md similarity index 100% rename from doc/2.4-setting-up-ido.md rename to doc/2.3-setting-up-ido.md diff --git a/doc/2.5-setting-up-livestatus.md b/doc/2.4-setting-up-livestatus.md similarity index 100% rename from doc/2.5-setting-up-livestatus.md rename to doc/2.4-setting-up-livestatus.md diff --git a/doc/2.5-setting-up-icinga2-uis.md b/doc/2.5-setting-up-icinga2-uis.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..2ab00c4ec --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/2.5-setting-up-icinga2-uis.md @@ -0,0 +1,117 @@ + + +## Setting up Icinga 2 User Interfaces + +Icinga 2 is compatible to Icinga 1.x user interfaces by providing additional +features required as backends. + +Furthermore these interfaces (and somewhere in the future an Icinga 2 +exclusive interface) can be used for the newly created `Icinga Web 2` +user interface. + +### Setting up Icinga Classic UI + +Icinga 2 can write `status.dat` and `objects.cache` files in the format that +is supported by the Icinga 1.x Classic UI. External commands (a.k.a. the +"command pipe") are also supported. It also supports writing Icinga 1.x +log files which are required for the reporting functionality in the Classic UI. + +#### Installing Icinga Classic UI + +The Icinga package repository has both Debian and RPM packages. You can install +the Classic UI using the following packages: + + Distribution | Packages + --------------|--------------------- + Debian | icinga2-classicui + all others | icinga2-classicui-config icinga-gui + +> **Note** +> +> On all distributions other than Debian you may have to restart both your web +> server as well as Icinga 2 after installing the Classic UI package. + +Verify that your Icinga 1.x Classic UI works by browsing to your Classic +UI installation URL: + + Distribution | URL | Default Login + --------------|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|-------------------------- + Debian | [http://localhost/icinga2-classicui](http://localhost/icinga2-classicui) | asked during installation + all others | [http://localhost/icinga](http://localhost/icinga) | icingaadmin/icingaadmin + + +### Setting up Icinga Web + +Icinga 2 can write to the same schema supplied by `Icinga IDOUtils 1.x` which +is an explicit requirement to run `Icinga Web` next to the external command pipe. +Therefore you need to setup the DB IDO feature remarked in the previous sections. + +#### Installing Icinga Web + +The Icinga package repository has both Debian and RPM packages. You can install +the Classic UI using the following packages: + + Distribution | Packages + --------------|------------------------------------- + RHEL/SUSE | icinga-web icinga-web-{mysql,pgsql} + Debian | icinga-web + +Additionally you need to setup the `icinga_web` database. + +> **Note** +> +> The Icinga Web RPM packages install the schema files into +> `/usr/share/doc/icinga-web-*/schema` (`*` means package version). +> The Icinga Web dist tarball ships the schema files in `etc/schema`. +> +> On SuSE-based distributions the schema files are installed in +> `/usr/share/doc/packages/icinga-web/schema`. + + +Additionally you need to enable the `ExternalCommandListener` feature. + + # icinga2-enable-feature command + +Then edit the Icinga Web configuration for sending commands in `/etc/icinga-web/conf.d/access.xml` +(RHEL) or `/etc/icinga-web/access.xml` (SUSE) setting the command pipe path +to the default used in Icinga 2. Make sure to clear the cache afterwards. + + # vim /etc/icinga-web/conf.d/access.xml + + + + /var/run/icinga2/cmd/icinga.cmd + + + + # icinga-web-clearcache + +Verify that your Icinga 1.x Web works by browsing to your Web installation URL: + + Distribution | URL | Default Login + --------------|-------------------------------------------------------------|-------------------------- + Debian | [http://localhost/icinga-web](http://localhost/icinga-web) | asked during installation + all others | [http://localhost/icinga-web](http://localhost/icinga-web) | root/password + + + +### Setting up Icinga Web 2 + +Icinga Web 2 currently supports `status.dat`, `DB IDO` or `Livestatus` as backends. +Please consult the INSTALL documentation shipped with `Icinga Web 2` for +further instructions. + +> **Note** +> +> Icinga Web 2 is still under heavy development. Rather than installing it +> yourself you should consider testing it using the available Vagrant +> demo boxes. + +### Additional visualization + +There are many addons in the wild which are using Icinga 1.x backends and +are well integrated into user interfaces. + +The most famous ones are PNP or inGraph (graphing performance data), graphite, NagVis +(network maps), etc +