Configuring iCinga2 on Single server

This will guide you through installing Icinga setup on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS server;

Requirements

• Linux Server running Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
• SSL/ HTTPS Certificates issued ( May be using Letsencrypt or Otherwise)
• sudo access to the server. All following commands have to be entered as the root user. Best way to do it is, by login in as root with sudo su

Execute the commands as super user

Installing using a Script

Download the script into your server

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/LEARN-LK/Tutorials/master/installing_icinga2_ubuntu.sh

Assign execute permission for the script

chmod +x installing_icinga2_ubuntu.sh

Then execute file using terminal

./installing_icinga2_ubuntu.sh

Select yes for the options pop up when icinga2-ido-mysql starts installing and creating database for module. Enter a password for when it prompt(it is used for icinga2 database)

Starting Web Setup

Finally visit Icinga Web 2 in your browser to access the setup wizard and complete the installation:

​http://IP-ADDRESS/icingaweb2/setup

Configuration on web

You can set up Icinga Web 2 quickly and easily with the Icinga Web 2 setup wizard which is available the first time you visit Icinga Web 2 in your browser. When using the web setup you are required to authenticate using a token.

you can show it using the icingacli:

icingacli setup token show

Next page will show you the modules:

You can enable the modules you want sliding bars:

Please keep the Authentication type as database:

As the icingaweb_db resource, please add icingaweb2 database details in Mysql, You can find your database password for icingaweb2 user in /home/passwords.txt file

Enter Authentication backend as icingaweb2:

Create a loging user for the icingaweb portal:

Click next to proceed :

Change the database name to icinga2 :

Use the password you typed when the mysql ido configurations while executing the installation script:

Enter the api-user details and you can find the details in /etc/icinga2/conf.d/api-users.conf file. I(f you get error vhile validating root, please restart the icinga service and try):

Click next to proceed :

if the configurations are succeeded, following message is shown on the top, and click Login to icinga web 2 in the right side

Initial dashboard:

Let's Initialise a resource for director module. Resources can be created using Configurations > Application > Resource like following image.

After creating resource for director and select created resource:

Then assing the hostname as endpoint and host as local host, API user details are in /etc/icinga2/conf.d/api-users.conf file.

After every deplyment, Please deploy by clicking Deploy pending changes on the top of the page :

Before adding hosts, the host templates have to be added. you can assing the commands and the templates as requirements.

Add the hosts after adding host template:

Before adding services, the service templates has to be added,

After, services can be added as following as per requirements:

Manual Installation

Ubuntu Repositories

You need to add the Icinga repository to your package management configuration. The following commands must be executed with root permissions unless noted otherwise.

apt-get update

apt-get -y install apt-transport-https wget gnupg

wget -O - https://packages.icinga.com/icinga.key | apt-key add -

. /etc/os-release; if [ ! -z ${UBUNTU_CODENAME+x} ]; then DIST="${UBUNTU_CODENAME}"; else DIST="$(lsb_release -c| awk '{print $2}')"; fi;

echo "deb https://packages.icinga.com/ubuntu icinga-${DIST} main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/${DIST}-icinga.list

echo "deb-src https://packages.icinga.com/ubuntu icinga-${DIST} main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/${DIST}-icinga.list

apt-get update

Installing Icinga 2

The following commands must be executed with root permissions unless noted otherwise.

apt-get install icinga2

Setting up Check Plugins

Without plugins Icinga 2 does not know how to check external services. The Monitoring Plugins Project provides an extensive set of plugins which can be used with Icinga 2 to check whether services are working properly.

apt-get install monitoring-plugins

Running Service

Start the service using following command

systemctl restart icinga2

Enabling the service if a reboot happens

systemctl enable icinga2

Extra :

If you’re stuck with configuration errors, you can manually invoke the configuration validation.

icinga2 daemon -C

Configuration Syntax Highlighting

If you are using Vim

apt-get install vim-icinga2 vim-addon-manager

vim-addon-manager -w install icinga2

Ensure that syntax highlighting is enabled e.g. by editing the user’s vimrc configuration file:

# vim ~/.vimrc syntax on

Test it:

vim /etc/icinga2/conf.d/templates.conf

Note : If you are using Nano the syntax files are installed with the icinga2-common package already

Setting up Icinga Web 2

Configuring DB IDO MySQL

Installing MySQL database server

apt-get install mariadb-server

mysql_secure_installation

(After executing mysql_secure_installation, change the root password and remove test database.)

Installing the IDO modules for MySQL

The next step is to install the icinga2-ido-mysql

apt-get install icinga2-ido-mysql

Select yes for the options pop up and enter a password for when it prompt(it is used for icinga2 database)

Note :

(OPTIONAL)The Ubuntu packages provide a database configuration wizard by default. You can skip the automated setup and install/upgrade the database manually if you prefer.

Setting up the MySQL database

 mysql -u root -p

CREATE DATABASE icinga;

CREATE USER 'icinga'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY '###PASSSWORD### ;

GRANT SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, DROP, CREATE VIEW, INDEX, EXECUTE ON icinga.* TO 'icinga'@'localhost';

quit

After creating the database you can import the Icinga 2 IDO schema using the following command. Enter the root password into the prompt when asked.

mysql -u root -p icinga < /usr/share/icinga2-ido-mysql/schema/mysql.sql

Enabling the IDO MySQL module

The package provides a new configuration file that is installed in /etc/icinga2/features-available/ido-mysql.conf. (You can update the database credentials in this file if needed.)

You can enable the ido-mysql feature configuration file using icinga2 feature enable:

icinga2 feature enable ido-mysql

You will see Module 'ido-mysql' was enabled.

Make sure to restart Icinga 2 for these changes to take effect.

systemctl restart icinga2

Setting Up Icinga 2 REST API

Icinga Web 2 and other web interfaces require the REST API to send actions (reschedule check, etc.) and query object details.

You can run the CLI command icinga2 api setup to enable the api feature and set up certificates as well as a new API user root with an auto-generated password in the /etc/icinga2/conf.d/api-users.conf configuration file:

icinga2 api setup

Edit the api-users.conf file and add a new ApiUser object. Specify the permissions attribute with minimal permissions required by Icinga Web 2.

vim /etc/icinga2/conf.d/api-users.conf

object ApiUser "icingaweb2" {
  password = "Wijsn8Z9eRs5E25d"
  permissions = [ "status/query", "actions/*", "objects/modify/*", "objects/query/*" ]
}

(add an api user for the director as well)

Restart Icinga 2 to activate the configuration.

systemctl restart icinga2

Installing Icinga Web 2

apt-get install icingaweb2 libapache2-mod-php

Preparing Web Setup

You can set up Icinga Web 2 quickly and easily with the Icinga Web 2 setup wizard which is available the first time you visit Icinga Web 2 in your browser. When using the web setup you are required to authenticate using a token. In order to generate a token use the icingacli:

icingacli setup token create

In case you do not remember the token you can show it using the icingacli:

icingacli setup token show

On Debian and derivates, you need to manually create a database and a database user prior to starting the web wizard. This is due to local security restrictions whereas the web wizard cannot create a database/user through a local unix domain socket.

Database for backend use

log as root user

mysql -u root -p

then execute the following commands to create icingaweb db and director db

For icingaweb db ====

CREATE DATABASE icingaweb2;

CREATE USER icingaweb2@localhost IDENTIFIED BY '##PASSWORD##';

GRANT ALL ON icingaweb2.* TO icingaweb2@localhost;

Flush privileges;

quit

director db

CREATE DATABASE director CHARACTER SET 'utf8';

CREATE USER director@localhost IDENTIFIED BY '##PASSWORD##';

GRANT ALL ON director.* TO director@localhost;

Flush privileges;

quit

enabling reactbundle module

Copy following script to a bash flle and execute or execute in the terminal.

REACTBUNDLE_MODULE_NAME=reactbundle

REACTBUNDLE_MODULE_VERSION=v0.9.0

REACTBUNDLE_REPO="https://github.com/Icinga/icingaweb2-module-${REACTBUNDLE_MODULE_NAME}"

MODULES_PATH="/usr/share/icingaweb2/modules"

git config --global advice.detachedHead false

git clone ${REACTBUNDLE_REPO} "${MODULES_PATH}/${REACTBUNDLE_MODULE_NAME}" --branch "${REACTBUNDLE_MODULE_VERSION}"

icingacli module enable "${REACTBUNDLE_MODULE_NAME}"

enabling ipl module

Copy following script to a bash flle and execute or execute in the terminal.

IPL_MODULE_NAME=ipl

IPL_MODULE_VERSION=v0.5.0

IPL_REPO="https://github.com/Icinga/icingaweb2-module-${IPL_MODULE_NAME}"

MODULES_PATH="/usr/share/icingaweb2/modules"

git clone ${IPL_REPO} "${MODULES_PATH}/${IPL_MODULE_NAME}" --branch "${IPL_MODULE_VERSION}"

icingacli module enable "${IPL_MODULE_NAME}"

enabling incubator module

Copy following script to a bash flle and execute or execute in the terminal.

INCUBATOR_MODULE_NAME=incubator

INCUBATOR_MODULE_VERSION=v0.6.0

INCUBATOR_REPO="https://github.com/Icinga/icingaweb2-module-${INCUBATOR_MODULE_NAME}"

MODULES_PATH="/usr/share/icingaweb2/modules"

git clone ${INCUBATOR_REPO} "${MODULES_PATH}/${INCUBATOR_MODULE_NAME}" --branch "${INCUBATOR_MODULE_VERSION}"

icingacli module enable "${INCUBATOR_MODULE_NAME}"

Enabling Director in Icinga

Copy following script to a bash flle and execute. The script with the files to the relevant directory using the script

ICINGAWEB_MODULEPATH="/usr/share/icingaweb2/modules"

REPO_URL="https://github.com/icinga/icingaweb2-module-director"

TARGET_DIR="${ICINGAWEB_MODULEPATH}/director"

MODULE_VERSION="1.8.0"

git clone "${REPO_URL}" "${TARGET_DIR}" --branch v${MODULE_VERSION}

and then enable the icinga-director module

icingacli module enable director

enabling business process module

Copy following script to a bash flle and execute or execute in the terminal.

BS_PROCESS_ICINGAWEB_MODULEPATH="/usr/share/icingaweb2/modules"

BS_PROCESS_REPO_URL="https://github.com/Icinga/icingaweb2-module-businessprocess"

BS_PROCESS_TARGET_DIR="${ICINGAWEB_MODULEPATH}/businessprocess"

git clone "${BS_PROCESS_REPO_URL}" "${BS_PROCESS_TARGET_DIR}"

icingacli module enable businessprocess

changing the permission for relevant users

chown -R www-data:icingaweb2 /etc/icingaweb2/

Running a demon for director service

useradd -r -g icingaweb2 -d /var/lib/icingadirector -s /bin/false icingadirector

apt install -d -o icingadirector -g icingaweb2 -m 0750 /var/lib/icingadirector

MODULE_PATH=/usr/share/icingaweb2/modules/director

cp "${MODULE_PATH}/contrib/systemd/icinga-director.service" /etc/systemd/system/

systemctl daemon-reload

systemctl enable icinga-director.service

systemctl start icinga-director.service

Firewall Rules

Enable port 80 (http). Best practice is to only enable port 443 (https) and use TLS certificates.

ufw-cmd:

ufw allow 22

ufw allow 80

ufw allow 443

ufw allow 5665

ufw reload

iptables:

iptables -A INPUT -p tcp -m tcp --dport 80 -j ACCEPT service iptables save