Foreman, Katello and Red Hat Satellite 6 users have multiple possibilities to monitor infrastructure health. Beside the Foreman host, also managed systems and defined software content are worth monitoring. Foreman dashboard Foreman/Katello and Red Hat Satellite offer a dashboard with some widgets that can be used for …

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The last couple of days I have been working on a new project I want to introduce: IcingaBusylightAgent. It all began with a new telephony system in our office. Instead of using physical phones, my colleagues are now using softphones. In addition to this, a gadget called Busylight representing the instant messenger …

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In my last article I focussed on Icinga 2 and the new configuration utility Icinga Director. I mentioned that Icinga Director can be used to link Icinga to pre-existing Configuration Management Database (CMDB) systems to simplify data import. In this article we will create a little "dummy CMDB" with MySQL and …

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Icinga2 is a very powerful monitoring system that can be used optionally with the new user interface Icinga Web 2. In comparison with Icinga 1.x, those tools have been developed completely from scratch - they have nothing in common with the legacy software stack. This year, a configuration utility named Icinga Director …

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