# \#howto

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## [Migrating Icinga databases to Postgres](https://community.icinga.com/t/migrating-icinga-databases-to-postgres/14641)

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**Author:** [@golaat](https://community.icinga.com/u/golaat)\
**Replies:** 15\
**Last updated:** [April 8, 2026, 12:36pm UTC](https://community.icinga.com/t/migrating-icinga-databases-to-postgres/14641 "2026-04-08T12:36:24Z")

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I have a functioning and configured Icinga deployment running against MariaDB. I’d like to swap out the database backend to Postgres and am looking for some guidance - a pointer to a guide for doing the migration would b…

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## [Overview or static feed of blog posts (or other best practices)?](https://community.icinga.com/t/overview-or-static-feed-of-blog-posts-or-other-best-practices/12221)

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**Author:** [@Barney](https://community.icinga.com/u/Barney)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [June 22, 2023, 5:46pm UTC](https://community.icinga.com/t/overview-or-static-feed-of-blog-posts-or-other-best-practices/12221 "2023-06-22T17:46:55Z")

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Hi community! I’m a somewhat new Icinga user :hugs: – ever struggling to find up-to-date how-tos and best practices. (What are the go-to check plugins? Starting fresh with graphing? Learned one way to setup agents but …

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## [Business Process: How to have an amber operator in node config?](https://community.icinga.com/t/business-process-how-to-have-an-amber-operator-in-node-config/2762)

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**Author:** [@dphowes](https://community.icinga.com/u/dphowes)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [November 14, 2019, 12:27pm UTC](https://community.icinga.com/t/business-process-how-to-have-an-amber-operator-in-node-config/2762 "2019-11-14T12:27:39Z")

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Is it possible to have an amber state operator in the business process node config settings ? Context is that if we have a node that represents a service function (for example web servers). That node object has 3 sub n…

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## [Director Service Sets: Add service checks based on host templates](https://community.icinga.com/t/director-service-sets-add-service-checks-based-on-host-templates/267)

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**Author:** [@dnsmichi](https://community.icinga.com/u/dnsmichi)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [January 31, 2019, 1:19pm UTC](https://community.icinga.com/t/director-service-sets-add-service-checks-based-on-host-templates/267 "2019-01-31T13:19:12Z")

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Author: @mfriedrich Version: v0.1 Tested with: Director v1.6.0, release package Icinga 2 v2.10.2, Icinga Web 2 v2.6.2 General This howto originates from helping a user, and finding out that the template inheritanc…