Hi, On 12.07.2013 11:53, Silver, Jonathan wrote: > We are looking at rolling out a network of servers (Cloud/SaaS) and > using ganglia to collect perf measurements from them all. > > We sort of like the dynamic nature of pushing data and not having to > configure everything beforehand – especially since we think that we will > be starting/stopping instances all of the time. > > We were looking at using Nagios to monitor thresholds and issue alarms, > but can we use Icinga instead?
Yep. It's backwards compatible if you are used to the old Nagios format. All existing plugins and addons can be used with Icinga too. > > 1.Nagios has a plug-ion to get the measurement from the RRDS, can I use > this plug-in for Icinga? Is there an equivalent? The plugin api is kept intact for compatibility reasons. The only adaptions required may be path changes (e.g. /usr/local/icinga instead of /usr/local/nagios) > > 2.I see that Icinga 2.x has yet to be released for production use, is > there a schedule plan for it being available for deployment? The first final release is planned for Q4 2013 which should be end of october (osmc 2013). While Milestone Compat 1.x allows you to run it on your test instances, there's still more to come. We are currently working on the IDO and Livestatus components beind made available as additional backends. You may follow the activity on the development tracker itsself: https://dev.icinga.org/projects/i2/roadmap (or follow @icinga / @icinga_dev on twitter, subscribe to icinga-checkins mailinglist, or just lurk on the various community support channels - https://www.icinga.org/support ) > > 3.Anything else that I should consider? In terms of automating your configuration you might find puppet, chef, etc interesting as well. Either way, 2 more things: 1) use packages 2) consider https://docs.icinga.org and https://wiki.icinga.org your friends, starting with https://wiki.icinga.org/display/howtos/Advice+for+Beginners kind regards, Michael -- DI (FH) Michael Friedrich mail: michael.friedr...@gmail.com twitter: https://twitter.com/dnsmichi jabber: dnsmi...@jabber.ccc.de irc: irc.freenode.net/icinga dnsmichi icinga open source monitoring position: lead core developer url: https://www.icinga.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ See everything from the browser to the database with AppDynamics Get end-to-end visibility with application monitoring from AppDynamics Isolate bottlenecks and diagnose root cause in seconds. Start your free trial of AppDynamics Pro today! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=48808831&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ icinga-users mailing list icinga-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/icinga-users
