Icinga2

Notes for setting up icinga2 on Debian9/Stretch

• see this https://www.howtoforge.com/tutorial/install-icinga2-and-icingaweb2-on-centos-7/
• base debian9 vm (2vcpu + 1gb mem + 4gb disk)
• apt-get install mariadb-server (note that mariadb root uses socket auth like postgres has been doing for many years)
• apt-get install icinga2 monitoring-plugins icingacli
• apt-get install icinga2-ido-mysql (this will create database and mysql user)
• apt-get install vim-icinga2 (this is optional)
• icinga2 feature enable command
• apt-get install icingaweb2
  • /etc/php/7.0/apache2/php.ini: set date.timezone = Europe/Copenhagen
  • mysql: create database for icingaweb
  • open http://your-icinga-server/icingaweb2/ and follow the wizard