A little love for two old fellas – Icinga Business Process Modeling and Icinga Web Graphite Integration

Today is the day, we grant two products their long overdue maintenance. Maintenance always sounds boring, I hear you. But let me remind you that this also means we do and take care!

And what this actually is all about:

• Icinga Business Process Modeling v2.5.2
• Icinga Web Graphite Integration v1.2.5

Now let’s see what each release offers!

Icinga Business Process Modeling

• Acknowledged nodes and those that are in downtime, are now visible as such again while using the latest release of Icinga (2.15) and Icinga DB (1.4)
  • This also makes the CLI flags --downtime-is-ok and --ack-is-ok work again
• Process badges shown in the menu, now correctly determine states of root nodes not using the AND operator
  • The badges now also represent the total of the worst state found in a process (Previously all states were considered critical)
• The action link to clean up missing nodes is now only visible while modifying the process
• The sort control is now gone, in case a process is shown on the dashboard
• The menu does not break anymore, in case neither monitoring nor Icinga DB Web are enabled
• Exports to CSV/JSON now include the is_acknowledged flag

Icinga Web Graphite Integration

• Existing templates for plugins provided by Icinga for Windows now support their check multi perdata format
• The default timeout for connections to graphite has been lowered from 30 seconds to 10 seconds and is now configurable
• Graphs made by using a multi template now also work in case of mixed perfdata definitions
• Support for parameter graph_debug in host and service graph overviews (while using Icinga DB)

While working on this release, our colleagues at NETWAYS also put some effort into supporting go-graphite/carbonapi. As it turns out, v0.16.1 (August 2023) added support for a critical API endpoint. However, it isn’t fully compatible and a working release is still due.

Installation

Our repositories have been updated and provide updated packages for icinga-businessprocess and icinga-graphite.

Please remember that we have recently updated our support matrix. (Ubuntu 20.04 Focal Fossa and SLES 15.5 were removed)