Hi, it's definitly possible to separate database, icinga and icinga-web each to different hosts.
At first your installing icinga and ido-utils on your monitoring server. Icinga itself doesn't need access to the database. It connects to the idoutils (socket or tcp). Idoutils are the "bridge" between database and icinga. idoutils needs therefore access to the database. If all is configured well you should find some lines like the following in your logs: --- [1340265156] idomod: IDOMOD 1.7.0 (05-15-2012) Copyright(c) 2005-2008 Ethan Galstad, Copyright(c) 2009-2012 Icinga Development Team (https://www.icinga.org) [1340265156] idomod: Successfully connected to data sink. 0 queued items to flush. [1340265156] Event broker module 'IDOMOD' version '1.7.0' from '/usr/local/icinga/lib/idomod.so' initialized successfully. --- After that you configure icinga-web to connect to: - database server with it's own table (for example icinga_web): - database server with the icinga/ido table for getting the status These config sections you find in PREFIX/icinga-web/etc/conf.d/databases.xml. At least to send commands to your icinga installation you have to configure ssh access for a user from webhost to monitoring host. There the user has to be able to write to command file (have a look at PREFIX/icinga-web/etc/conf.d/access.xml). Regards, Marc Am 02.07.2012 17:19, schrieb Russell Poyner: > I've been trying, and failing to install icinga-web on a a separate host > from my icinga-core. > > Is this even possible? > Anyone done it? > > What works: > monitor.domain.edu is a vm running icinga-core 1.6.2 with idoutils, and > the cgi interface successfully > > mysql.domain.edu is the mysql server for icinga-core, and a bunch of > other apps here. > > What is desired: > icinga-web running in an apache vhost on webhost.domain.edu > > Initially I tried installing icinga-web 1.7 on the webhost, but maybe I > need to be using 1.6.2 to match my core install? > > It's not clear to me from the icinga-web install guide what all the > communication channels between icinga-web and icinga-core are. > > The icinga-web install can talk to the ido database on the mysql server, > and to it's own database. Are there other channels that need to be > configured? > > icinga_pipe? > icinga-api? > > RP > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Live Security Virtual Conference > Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and > threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions > will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware > threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ > _______________________________________________ > icinga-users mailing list > icinga-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/icinga-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ icinga-users mailing list icinga-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/icinga-users
