Icinga for Windows is our framework and plugin collection to monitor Windows hosts natively with the Icinga Agent. We published our first release candidate in November, today we are delighted to announce the availability of Release Candidate 2 of Icinga for Windows. Thanks to your feedback and tests during the past weeks, we were able to improve the entire solution and increase the stability and reliability. Further, we added additional management capabilities to make automation, configuration and troubleshooting easier.
Manage your Self-Service Key
With RC2 we introduce two new Cmdlets: Show-IcingaDirectorSelfServiceKey and Remove-IcingaDirectorSelfServiceKey. Those make it easier to access information about keys and flush those that have been removed from the Icinga Director.
Host-Address Detection for Interfaces
One of our challenges with our old Windows Module was fetching the correct IP-Address of the Windows Host during the registration process with the Icinga Director when using the Self-Service API. With RC2 this issue is now resolved and the correct address is fetched based on the routing configuration leading to your Icinga 2 endpoint. This fix increases the reliability and provides the last missing part of the registering process of new nodes.
Stability Improvements
During all your tests within the past weeks several issues were detected which caused the update process of Plugins or the Framework to fail, but also the setup wizard itself. With RC2, we improved the entire update process and ensured it will no longer crash and leave a broken state.
In addition we updated the wizard for these actions to validate input and ask the user to re-try in case downloads were not possible or failed for other reasons. Furthermore we improved the input messages to provide a better understanding which values are required and how they have to be entered.
Plenty of other Fixes
Thanks to your effort we were able to detect plenty of other issues, like memory leaks on the background daemon for service checks, missing Icinga Agent configuration steps and lots of smaller issues. You can get a detailed overview of all included fixes directly within the GitHub Issue Tracker: RC2 Issue Tracker
What’s Next?
We are looking forward to your feedback on the new version of the Framework. We’re planing to release version 1.0.0 during January in case no big issues occur. In addition we will work on new integrations and plugins during the next month, to allow a full Windows monitoring. Regarding new plugins our intention is to provide Hyper-V, Active Directory, Exchange and MSSQL in the future. If you are interested in this, we would love to hear your feedback and ideas.
Thank you all for your positive feedback and tests! If you didn’t try Icinga for Windows yet, get started by installing the Icinga for Windows Framework and our Plugin Collection!
