Talk by Bernd Erk: Humans are creatures of habit – we have our environments, our tasks, our routine. Building up a routine takes a lot out of us – so as soon as we find something that works for us we stick with it. But is it effective? Are there tools that can make our life so much easier if we manage to integrate them into our routine? Of course, we’re in IT, there are always new and good tools! Only 2 more hurdles to clear – find the right tools for you and actually make the effort to integrate them into your routine. The purpose of this talk is to help you with exactly that – I will show you the most important quality-of-life modules and add-ons for Icinga.All of them officially supported by the Icinga team and super easy to integrate into your system!

1. Best of Icinga Modules
26th September – Icinga Camp Milan

2. Icinga Director
Icinga Configuration and Orchestration Solution
icinga.com/docs/director/
The Director aims to be the favorite Icinga config
deployment tool.
Director is designed for those who want to automate
their configuration deployment and those who want
to grant their “point & click” users easy access to
the configuration. Both at the very same time!
Icinga Director

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Import & Sync
Icinga Director
Icinga Configuration and Orchestration Solution
Icinga Director not only eases point-and-click configuration but also offers orchestration for
fully automated environments.
Information about network infrastructure and components are often clustered over several
sources. Import from Active Directory and LDAP, databases and cloud providers to have them
all in one place.
Automate everything from import and sync to deployment.

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Icinga Director
In a Nutshell
• Make config easy for the end user
• Offer interfaces and integrate other tools
• Avoid writing config files
• Import and sync config from everywhere
• Automate configuration deployment

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Icinga Director
Templates
• Everything starts with a template
• Defines what to monitor
• Check command plus settings
• Defines fields and variables
• Zone or agent usage for distributed envs
• Assign apply rules

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Icinga Director
Hosts and Services
• Hosts and services import templates
• Set variables and details
• Extra info about the object

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Import & Sync
Icinga Director
Hosts and Services

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Import & Sync
Icinga Director
Deployment
• Director keeps track of every single change
• Perfect for auditing changes
• Allows to travel back in time
• Pushes configuration to the Icinga 2 API
• Verifies deployment status

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Import & Sync
Icinga Director
Activity Log

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Import & Sync
Icinga Director
Deployments

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Import & Sync
Icinga Director
Configuration Diff

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Icinga Director
Import & Sync
• Retrieve data from external resources
• Rewrite data with modifiers, e.g. resolve IP addresses
• Define how to map objects
• Detect changes
• Create, update or delete objects

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Import & Sync
Icinga Director
Import From LDAP, Active Directory

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Icinga Director
Import From Databases
• MySQL
• PostgreSQL
• MSSQL
• Oracle

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Icinga Director
Import From Files
• CSV
• JSON
• XML
• YAML

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Icinga Director
Import From AWS
• EC2 Instances
• Load Balancers
• Autoscaling
Groups

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Icinga Director
Automation
• Import, sync and config deployment
• Granular control
• Automatic deployment only at office hours and not more
than one deployment every 10 minutes?
Sure, why not

18. Certificate Monitoring
Discover Your Certificate Infrastructure
icinga.com/docs/x509/
The X.509 module for Icinga Web 2 keeps track of
certificates as they're deployed in a network
environment.
The module's web frontend can be used to view
scan results.
Certificate Monitoring

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Scan TLS Services
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Own Trust Store
Certificate Monitoring
Discover Your Certificate Infrastructure
The X.509 modules periodically scans networks (IP and port ranges) for TLS services and
collects whatever certificates it finds along the way.
The certificates are verified using its own trust store.
The module’s web frontend can be used to view scan results, allowing you to drill down into
detailed information about any discovered certificate of your landscape. Further it integrates
with the Director to automatically provide checks for hosts and its discovered TLS services.

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Own Trust Store
• Define scan jobs in the frontend
• Automatically scans every configured IP and port
combination
• Collects new and changed certificates including the
complete certificate chain
• Verifies certificates
• Run jobs on a schedule
Certificate Monitoring
Automatically Scan TLS Services

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Own Trust Store
• Verify certificates against own trust store
• Import trusted CAs
Certificate Monitoring
Trust Store

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Own Trust Store
• Frontend to view scan results
• Detailed information about any certificate and its chain
• Provides hosts and services of collected TLS services
Certificate Monitoring
Integration

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Own Trust Store
Certificate Monitoring
Integration

24. Business Process
Business Process Modelling
icinga.com/docs/businessprocess/
Create a combined view of your existing data and
build your very own top level view. What matters is
the availability of your whole application or service.
The Business Process Module makes it possible to
set single hosts and services into context.
Business Process

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Business Process
Business Process Modelling
Icinga Business Process Modelling allows you to put single hosts and services into context in
order to aggregate their state into the status of your whole application.
Notify and report business processes just like any other host or service.
Tree and tile views, breadcrumb navigation, business impact analysis

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• Multi-level hierarchy of nodes
• Node: Host, service, existing process
• Combined with an operator: and, or, min of
• Example: Web server farm is OK
if at least 5 web servers are running
Business Process
Context

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Integration
• Check command
• Notifications
• Reporting
Business Process
Integration

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Business Process
Tile View

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Tree View
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Visualization

30. Icinga Reporting
Insights for Operators and Charts for Stakeholders
icinga.com/docs/reporting/
Icinga Reporting allows you to create and distribute
reports in various output formats.
Icinga Reporting

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Engine
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SLA & Availability
Icinga Reporting
Icinga Reporting ships with its own powerful reporting engine for fast and reliable ad-hoc and
scheduled generation and distribution of reports. It supports various output formats, i.e.
HTML, PDF, CSV, JSON.
The SLA and availability reports give you comprehensive views of the overall availability of
your monitored objects during a selected time period and help you to confirm that SLA targets
are being met.
Run reports on a schedule to automatically generate and distribute reports via mail.
Insights for Operators and Charts for Stakeholders

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Engine
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SLA & Availability
• Ships with its own engine
• Extensible
• Supports various output formats, i.e. HTML, PDF, JSON,
CSV
• Send reports via mail
• Ad-hoc and scheduled generation
Icinga Reporting
Engine

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Engine
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SLA & Availability
• Host and Service SLA
• Filter for groups, custom variables
• Select time frame
• Define target SLA, e.g. 99.5%
• Breakdown
Icinga Reporting
SLA & Availability

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SLA & Availability
• Create a schedule
• Select output format
• Define recipients
• Distribute via mail
Icinga Reporting
Automation

35. Icinga Cube
Groups host & service statistics in multiple dimensions
Icinga Cube displays host and service statistics
grouped by various custom variables in a matrix
format.
Icinga Cube

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Icinga Cube
The Cube provides answers to complex queries. Filter by any and everything your variables
and dice it any way you want.
Visualize your data in any way you want and make a dashboard that fits your needs
Groups host & service statistics in multiple dimensions
Icinga Cube works with custom variables that are used to group your hosts and services for a
highly customizable overview.

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• Group by Custom Variables
• Ensure consistency in your environment
• Make connectins by rotating the Cube
• Slice and dice your data
• Integration with Icinga Director
Icinga Cube
Basics

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• Number of servers / project / location?
• Operating system / project / environment?
• Physical servers / environment / side?
Icinga Cube
Answers

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Icinga Cube
Visualization

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Icinga Cube
Visualization

41. Thank You
bernd.erk@icinga.com
@gethash
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