On Fri, 11 Apr 2014, chris wrote:
- Is there a tool / plugin in Icinga, to enable user friendly wizard to add host / service to monitor
You might want to take a look at NagiosQL which is a configurator with a GUI interface. It won't know about the Icinga-specific config bits, so those'll have to be bodged in by hand -- every time the thing writes the config files (or gets taught about the Icinga changes). Generally speaking, you want to pick either manual or GUI-based configuration tactics. Working a hybrid approach is *very* tricky. Been there, done that.
- Is there any way that Icinga can read newly added host / service to monitor without restart
Aside from limited operational changes that can be made via the command file, no. Certainly adding/deleting monitored hosts requires a restart -- at least in Icinga 1.x.
- Is Icinga able to do multi tenance : each user can have their own reporting / configuration dashboard?
Yes, and that's possible by setting a different configuration file for each instance of Icinga that's running on a host -- and this includes the CGIs as well. Too, the check-spooling directory needs to be different for each so the various instances won't step on each other's plugin returns. The plugin library can be shared, however, as can the webserver function. A more important question to answer, though, is "How will this setup scale?" I.e. "Can it keep up with the demands that the users will put on it -- in a sane manner?", "How will one produce aggregate views of things and produce reports for Management?", "How will the overall administrator of the environment keep the individual instances looking vaguely alike (dealing with sysadmins is notoriously like trying to herd cats)?", as well as a host of other "gotchas". Just because something *can* be done doesn't mean that it's the *right thing* to do, and you need to take your own environment and situation into account. +------------------------------------------------+---------------------+ | Carl Richard Friend (UNIX Sysadmin) | West Boylston | | Minicomputer Collector / Enthusiast | Massachusetts, USA | | mailto:crfri...@rcn.com +---------------------+ | http://users.rcn.com/crfriend/museum | ICBM: 42:22N 71:47W | +------------------------------------------------+---------------------+ _______________________________________________ icinga-users mailing list icinga-users@lists.icinga.org https://lists.icinga.org/mailman/listinfo/icinga-users
