Talk at Icinga Camp Amsterdam 2016 by Christian Stein

1. www.icinga.org
Icinga 2 – How to Monitor
Windows
Icinga Camp - Amsterdam – 2016-06-28

2. • Christian Stein
• Icinga 2 user
• Working for NETWAYS in the
Sales department

3. WINDOWS: HOW TO?

4. NSClient++

5. • Default in plenty Nagios / Icinga setups
• Very easy to handle

6. Problems

7. • Network communication not encrypted
• One connection for each check

8. Icinga 2 Agent

9. • Communication encrypted by SSL (Icinga 2
Protocol)
• One connection for each endpoint
• Checks continue locally on network failure

10. Problems

11. • Complex configuration
• Requires SSL cert signing for each node
• Icinga 2 config knowledge required

12. SOLUTIONS

13. • Icinga 2 Setup Wizard

14. • Make use of configuration management
tools (like Puppet, Chef, Ansible, …)

15. • Use Windows tools for deployment

16. Windows tools?

17. • Domain / Group policies
• Chocolatey
• PowerShell

18. Are you serious?

19. • choco install icinga2 -y
• Done!

20. • Even better with Puppet
package { ‚icinga2':
ensure => latest,
}

21. • Icinga 2 PowerShell module

22. Which Module?

23. • https://github.com/LordHepipud/icinga2-
powershell-module
• Installs, updates and signs certificates

24. Voodoo?

25. • Let’s get a live demo

26. DEMO

27. WHATS NEXT?

28. • Windows 2016 support
• Distinguish from web and local installer
locations

29. • Possibly automated installation without
adding monitoring data
• PowerShell remote execution support

30. THANK YOU!
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