Yes, I was also going to chime in with the age old workaround... checks via ssh or snmp

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On 10/12/2017 04:55 AM, Rudy Gevaert wrote:
Hi Michael,

Thanks for your reply.  I fully understand the decisions behind it.  Luckily we still have nrpe ;)


Quoting Michael Friedrich <michael.friedr...@icinga.com>, Thu, 12 Oct 2017:

Hi,

On 12. Oct 2017, at 11:31, Rudy Gevaert <rudy.geva...@ugent.be> wrote:

Hello,

Like many environments you end up with a lot of system that are EOL for years.  But you still need to try to support them.

I was wondering if anybody already went down the route of building packages for Debian Squeeze to get more recent icinga2 packages than the one in the repo provide on packages.icinga.com

That won’t work as Debian Squeeze does not satisfy dependencies anymore, i.e. libraries, exported interfaces and such. That mainly affects their old OpenSSL version, but also other code parts which need to be compiled.

The source code development process does not take care about EOL distribution versions, that is a similar thing with RHEL5 being EOL.

So fi you somehow “patch” Icinga 2 to run on such ancient distributions, it might again break with a future version.

Keep in mind that you won’t get any support from us here too. If Icinga 2 keeps crashing for whatever reason on Debian Squeeze with your custom built package, it not something you may open an issue or receive help.

That may sound hard, but that’s a general rule with software. You can only support things where others support you too. The Debian project doesn’t support Squeeze either, so necessary security and stability fixes won’t reach your system.

I’d rather invest the time and resources to plan a migration and update to a modern infrastructure.



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