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Installation

Requirements

  • Icinga Web 2 (>= 2.8)
  • PHP (>= 7.1 or 8.x - 64bit only)
  • php-soap
  • php-pcntl (might already be built into your PHP binary)
  • php-posix (on RHEL/CentOS this is php-process, or rh-php7x-php-process)
  • MySQL (>= 5.7) or MariaDB (>= 10.3)
  • The following Icinga modules must be installed and enabled:
  • incubator (>=0.20)
  • If you are using Icinga Web < 2.9.0, the following modules are also required

Once you got Icinga Web 2 up and running, all required dependencies should already be there. All, but php-soap and php-posix. They are available on all major Linux distributions and can be installed with your package manager (yum, apt…). Same also goes true for non-Linux systems.

Preparation - Database

Create an empty database on MariaDB (or MySQL)

The vSphereDB module requires a MariaDB or MySQL database:

mysql -e "CREATE DATABASE vspheredb CHARACTER SET 'utf8mb4' COLLATE utf8mb4_bin;
   CREATE USER vspheredb@localhost IDENTIFIED BY 'some-password';
   GRANT ALL ON vspheredb.* TO vspheredb@localhost;"

HINT: You should replace some-password with a secure custom password.

In your web frontend please go to Configuration / Application / Resources and create a new database resource pointing to your newly created database. Please make sure that you choose utf8mb4 as an encoding.

Database configuration

Installation

Module installation (or upgrade)

This script downloads the latest version and extract installs it to the default Icinga Web 2 module directory. An eventually existing module installation will be replaced, so this can be used for upgrades too:

# You can customize these settings, but we suggest to stick with our defaults:
MODULE_VERSION="1.7.1"
DAEMON_USER="icingavspheredb"
DAEMON_GROUP="icingaweb2"
ICINGAWEB_MODULEPATH="/usr/share/icingaweb2/modules"
REPO_URL="https://github.com/icinga/icingaweb2-module-vspheredb"
TARGET_DIR="${ICINGAWEB_MODULEPATH}/vspheredb"
URL="${REPO_URL}/archive/refs/tags/v${MODULE_VERSION}.tar.gz"

# systemd defaults:
SOCKET_PATH=/run/icinga-vspheredb
TMPFILES_CONFIG=/etc/tmpfiles.d/icinga-vspheredb.conf

getent passwd "${DAEMON_USER}" > /dev/null || useradd -r -g "${DAEMON_GROUP}" \
  -d /var/lib/${DAEMON_USER} -s /bin/false ${DAEMON_USER}
install -d -o "${DAEMON_USER}" -g "${DAEMON_GROUP}" -m 0750 /var/lib/${DAEMON_USER}
install -d -m 0755 "${TARGET_DIR}"

test -d "${TARGET_DIR}_TMP" && rm -rf "${TARGET_DIR}_TMP"
test -d "${TARGET_DIR}_BACKUP" && rm -rf "${TARGET_DIR}_BACKUP"
install -d -o root -g root -m 0755 "${TARGET_DIR}_TMP"
wget -q -O - "$URL" | tar xfz - -C "${TARGET_DIR}_TMP" --strip-components 1 \
  && mv "${TARGET_DIR}" "${TARGET_DIR}_BACKUP" \
  && mv "${TARGET_DIR}_TMP" "${TARGET_DIR}" \
  && rm -rf "${TARGET_DIR}_BACKUP"

echo "d ${SOCKET_PATH} 0755 ${DAEMON_USER} ${DAEMON_GROUP} -" > "${TMPFILES_CONFIG}"
cp -f "${TARGET_DIR}/contrib/systemd/icinga-vspheredb.service" /etc/systemd/system/
systemd-tmpfiles --create "${TMPFILES_CONFIG}"

icingacli module enable vspheredb
systemctl daemon-reload
systemctl enable icinga-vspheredb.service
systemctl restart icinga-vspheredb.service

You’re ready to go

Choose your Icinga Web 2 Database resource

Now you can head on to Virtualization (vmWare) in your menu. vSphereDB will ask you to choose a specific DB resource:

Choose database resource

Finally, you only need to wait for the Background Daemon to prepare the database for you:

Waiting for the schema

That’s it!

FAQ

Running without SystemD

systemd is not a hard requirement, you can use any supervisor you want. The command you’re looking for is:

/usr/bin/icingacli vspheredb daemon run

High availability

Using an active-active replication is the preferred way when running vSphereDB. Please do not run multiple daemons writing into the same database, make sure to have only one vSphereDB daemon instance running at the same time. Configure a floating IP for your database connection.