First steps with icinga, need help too

Hi Michael,

Thank you for your assistance. I have Nagios Core experience but as far as Icinga is concerned I’m a newby.

run a manual config validation.

Is that a command or do you mean opening config files in vim and reviewing the content.

The current status is that I’m back where I started.
I don’t know which steps I missed to install dashlets

  • web interface is accessible

  • I can log on using database authentication

  • after log on I get

    Welcome to Icinga Web!

    Currently there is no dashlet available. Please contact the administrator.

  • about page shows

    Icinga Web 2 Version 2.6.2
    Copyright © 2013-2019 The Icinga Project

    Loaded modules
    Name Version
    monitoring 2.6.2

icinga2 feature list

Disabled features: compatlog debuglog elasticsearch gelf graphite influxdb livestatus opentsdb perfdata    statusdata
Enabled features: api checker command ido-mysql mainlog notification syslog

apt-cache showpkg icinga2

Package: icinga2
Versions:
2.10.4-1.stretch (/var/lib/apt/lists/packages.icinga.com_raspbian_dists_icinga-stretch_main_binary-armhf_Pack                                                         ages) (/var/lib/dpkg/status)
Description Language:
                File: /var/lib/apt/lists/raspbian.raspberrypi.org_raspbian_dists_stretch_main_binary-armhf_P                                                         ackages
                MD5: 2437d4eec840a772b3ba09c39cbe2bb3
Description Language:
                File: /var/lib/apt/lists/packages.icinga.com_raspbian_dists_icinga-stretch_main_binary-armhf                                                         _Packages
                MD5: 2437d4eec840a772b3ba09c39cbe2bb3
Description Language:
                File: /var/lib/apt/lists/packages.icinga.com_raspbian_dists_icinga-stretch_main_binary-armhf                                                         _Packages
                MD5: 2437d4eec840a772b3ba09c39cbe2bb3

2.10.2-1.stretch (/var/lib/apt/lists/packages.icinga.com_raspbian_dists_icinga-stretch_main_binary-armhf_Pack                                                         ages)
Description Language:
                File: /var/lib/apt/lists/raspbian.raspberrypi.org_raspbian_dists_stretch_main_binary-armhf_P                                                         ackages
                MD5: 2437d4eec840a772b3ba09c39cbe2bb3
Description Language:
                File: /var/lib/apt/lists/packages.icinga.com_raspbian_dists_icinga-stretch_main_binary-armhf                                                         _Packages
                MD5: 2437d4eec840a772b3ba09c39cbe2bb3
Description Language:
                File: /var/lib/apt/lists/packages.icinga.com_raspbian_dists_icinga-stretch_main_binary-armhf                                                         _Packages
                MD5: 2437d4eec840a772b3ba09c39cbe2bb3

2.6.0-2+deb9u1 (/var/lib/apt/lists/raspbian.raspberrypi.org_raspbian_dists_stretch_main_binary-armhf_Packages                                                         )
Description Language:
                File: /var/lib/apt/lists/raspbian.raspberrypi.org_raspbian_dists_stretch_main_binary-armhf_P                                                         ackages
                MD5: 2437d4eec840a772b3ba09c39cbe2bb3
Description Language:
                File: /var/lib/apt/lists/packages.icinga.com_raspbian_dists_icinga-stretch_main_binary-armhf                                                         _Packages
                MD5: 2437d4eec840a772b3ba09c39cbe2bb3
Description Language:
                File: /var/lib/apt/lists/packages.icinga.com_raspbian_dists_icinga-stretch_main_binary-armhf                                                         _Packages
                MD5: 2437d4eec840a772b3ba09c39cbe2bb3


Reverse Depends:
ganglia-nagios-bridge,icinga2
syslog-nagios-bridge,icinga2
nsca,icinga2
nagios-check-xmppng,icinga2
monitoring-plugins-standard,icinga2
monitoring-plugins-common,icinga2
monitoring-plugins-basic,icinga2
monitoring-plugins,icinga2
Dependencies:
2.10.4-1.stretch - icinga2-bin (5 2.10.4-1.stretch) icinga2-common (5 2.10.4-1.stretch) icinga2-doc (5 2.10.4                                                         -1.stretch) monitoring-plugins-basic (16 (null)) nagios-plugins-basic (0 (null)) libreadline6 (0 (null)) vim-                                                         icinga2 (0 (null))
2.10.2-1.stretch - icinga2-bin (5 2.10.2-1.stretch) icinga2-common (5 2.10.2-1.stretch) icinga2-doc (5 2.10.2                                                         -1.stretch) monitoring-plugins-basic (16 (null)) nagios-plugins-basic (0 (null)) libreadline6 (0 (null)) vim-                                                         icinga2 (0 (null))
2.6.0-2+deb9u1 - icinga2-bin (5 2.6.0-2+deb9u1) icinga2-common (5 2.6.0-2+deb9u1) icinga2-doc (5 2.6.0-2+deb9                                                         u1) monitoring-plugins-basic (16 (null)) nagios-plugins-basic (0 (null)) libreadline6 (0 (null)) icinga2-stud                                                         io (0 (null)) vim-icinga2 (0 (null))
Provides:
2.10.4-1.stretch -
2.10.2-1.stretch -
2.6.0-2+deb9u1 -
Reverse Provides: