Manage Icinga Agent Features

The Icinga PowerShell Framework is shipping wish a bunch of Cmdlets to manage the Icinga Agent in a very easy way. This includes the managing for features enabled or disabled for the Icinga Agent.

Note: Before using any of the commands below you will have to initialize the Icinga PowerShell Framework inside a new PowerShell instance with icinga -Shell

List Icinga Agent Features

To view a list of currently enabled and disabled features, you can use the command Get-IcingaAgentFeatures:

Get-IcingaAgentFeatures;

Name                           Value
----                           -----
Disabled                       {api, checker, debuglog, elasticsearch...}
Enabled                        {mainlog}

For a full list you can directly access each object:

(Get-IcingaAgentFeatures).Disabled;

api
checker
debuglog
elasticsearch
gelf
graphite
influxdb
notification
opentsdb
perfdata

(Get-IcingaAgentFeatures).Enabled;

mainlog

Enable Icinga Agent Features

To simply enable an Icinga Agent feature you can use Enable-IcingaAgentFeature followed by the name of the feature. In case the feature is already enabled, you will receive a notification and no change will be made:

Enable-IcingaAgentFeature -Feature api;

[Notice]: Feature "api" was successfully enabled

In case the feature is already enabled:

[Notice]: This feature is already enabled [api]

Now restart your Icinga Agent to take the changes into effect:

Restart-IcingaService icinga2

[Notice]: Restarting service "icinga2"

Disable Icinga Agent Features

To simply disable an Icinga Agent feature you can use Disable-IcingaAgentFeature followed by the name of the feature. In case the feature is already disabled, you will receive a notification and no change will be made:

Disable-IcingaAgentFeature -Feature api;

[Notice]: Feature "api" was successfully disabled

In case the feature is already enabled:

[Notice]: This feature is already disabled [api]

Now restart your Icinga Agent to take the changes into effect:

Restart-IcingaService icinga2

[Notice]: Restarting service "icinga2"