Re: [PLUG] Small scale Icinga1 replacement?

[jeffv via plug <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>]

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On 8/15/21 4:15 PM, JP Vossen via plug wrote:
> When I had to switch my home monitoring away from Nagios circa 2018, it 
> was very painful and I ended up just going from Nagios3 to 
> more-or-less-drop-in Icinga1.  But per the Debian Buster release, that 
> (stone-age) Icinga1 is gone.  Icinga2 is there, but if I have to start 
> from scratch, what's better, or at least sucks less?
>
> Requirements:
> * In the Debian 11 repos, and ideally in the 10 repos too
> * <4-6 hour setup from scratch for ~40 objects, mostly Linux, but some 
> BSD, ESXi, networking stuff, ATA, HD Homerun tuner, printers, etc.
> * The install will be on a shared services server, not dedicated, so it 
> needs to play nice
> * Low resource use (nothing Java!)
> ** Ideally no back-end DB, like MySQL, required
> * Less NRPE agent BS would be nice, I've had a bunch of v2 to v3 
> compatibility issues and much log spam
> * In fact "agentless" would be awesome, if that's a thing
> ** Because the Icinga2 agent sounded awful last time I checked: 
> https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-monitor-hosts-and-services-with-icinga-on-ubuntu-16-04 
>
> * Easy deployment via Ansible, if there is an agent
> * The usual parent/dependency relationship definition
> * Bogus points for a nice GUI map and status board (BOY is Icinga1 ugly 
> here!)
> * I'm torn about CLI/flat text vs. GUI config: I usually prefer 
> CLI/text, but this is mostly a one-time-only and I recall Nagios/Icinga 
> and Icinga2 having a painful learning curve for the config files
>
> Monitoring:
> * Up and running/connectivity
> * Disk space
> * CPU load
> * Various servers running well, like DNS, HTTP/S, MythTV, sshd, etc.
>
> I probably won't get around to this for a few months, though if there's 
> a better tool in both Debian 10 and 11 repos maybe I'll pre-migrate 
> monitoring before I move to Buster.
>
> Thanks for any clues,
> JP
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