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  • Version used (icinga2 --version)
    The Icinga 2 network monitoring daemon (version: r2.14.2-1)

  • Operating System and version
    Rocky Linux 8.8 Kernel: 4.18

  • Enabled features (icinga2 feature list)
    Enabled features: api checker mainlog

  • Icinga Web 2 version and modules (System - About)
    2.12.1

  • Config validation (icinga2 daemon -C)
    Yes. It checks out.

  • If you run multiple Icinga 2 instances, the zones.conf file (or icinga2 object list --type Endpoint and icinga2 object list --type Zone) from all affected nodes
    object Endpoint “mon1-ext” {
    host = “mon1-ext”
    port = “5665”
    }

    object Zone “master” {
    endpoints = [ “mon1-ext” ]
    }

    object Endpoint “mon1-int” {
    }

    object Zone “int” {
    endpoints = [ “mon1-int” ]
    parent = “master”
    }

    #object Zone “global-templates” {
    object Zone “global” {
    global = true
    }

    object Zone “director-global” {
    global = true
    }

Hello all,

First of all I’m very sorry to post this here and I hope I don’t get flamed for asking my question. Essentially what I am looking for is official training for Icinga2. I am in Alaska and while I can go to the training hosted in Germany (virtually), I was hoping to find something in the U.S. that would be a little closer to my timezone (-9 UTC). I basically inherited a running Icinga2 and I am trying to make ‘heads or tails’ of it. One of my sister units has a couple of “expert” Icinga users and they were baffled by our setup here, but were able to point me in the right direction enough that now I can add and delete items to Icinga. However, what I’m reading and learning on the web about Icinga, even their setup is far from ideal and they are considered the “experts” of our group.

What I’m looking for is suggestions for an officially licensed classroom environment for Icinga2. If I’m going to run our Icinga, I want to do it the right way.

Our company does have funds to pay for this class and I have permission to attend, I’m just struggling to find something relevant and I am asking for help.

Thank you in advance.
Respectfully,
AB

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Hi Ben,

Icinga lists their partners on this page: https://icinga.com/company/partners/

Perhaps the North America partner will be able to organise an official training, or an ad-hoc training based on days paid for professional services. As Icinga is sort of a Swiss-army knife, a one-on-one training focused on your setup and your needs may prove more useful than a general-purpose training class.

My two cents,

Jean

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Hi,

If its not just about you, but a couple people from your company, i can just recommend to ask icinga or the training partners. I have already held Icinga trainings for Companies in different timezones, we have been able to adjust a bit for them.

But also, asking Shadow-Soft for a training could be a good idea as well!

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@ben don’t worry, no flaming in this forum.
I can second the posters above me all good sugestions.
I would also add that setting up your own labs with Ansible for quick experiments can be very rewarding. There will be a webinar soon about setting up Icinga with Ansible Register Now!
I can also recommend LFOPS to manage an production installation and or labs.