Installing Icinga 1.6.1 on Debian Squeeze with icinga-web

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This small how-to briefly describes the installation of icinga 1.6.1 on debian squeeze 6.0 and details the install and configuration of the newest icinga-web (1.6.0).

Unfortunately, the latest icinga package version in debian are:

Because of that we have two choices getting the latest 1.6.1 version of icinga:
Install from source or use the debian packages of icinga in unstable tree (icinga itself is very stable).

  1. simply add

    deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian sid main

    as new line in file /etc/apt/sources.list

  2. do an

    apt-get -t unstable install icinga icinga-idoutils icinga-phpapi

  3. configure icinga & idoutils according to your needs (there is plenty information on the web on this)
  4. Clone recent icinga from git repository (the icinga debian maintainer won’t include icinga-web)

    cd /usr/src && git clone git://git.icinga.org/icinga-web.git

  5. Build icinga-web

    cd icinga-web/ && ./configure –with-api-cmd-file=/var/lib/icinga/rw/icinga.cmd –with-conf-dir=/etc/icinga-web –with-log-dir=/var/log/icinga-web –with-cache-dir=/var/cache/icinga-web

  6. Install Icinga-web

    make install

  7. Install Apache2 config for Icinga-web

    make install-apache-config

  8. Create icinga-web database in mysql

    mysql -u root -p icinga_web < /usr/src/icinga-web/etc/schema/mysql.sql

  9. change database settings in configuration file for icinga itself and icinga-web

    vi /usr/local/icinga-web/app/config/databases.xml

    Line 28: mysql://icinga_web:password@localhost:3306/icinga_web
    Line 79: mysql://icinga-idoutils:password@localhost:3306/icinga

  10. Clear the cache
  11. You should now be able to login to icinga-web with username “root” and password “password” on http://localhost/icinga-web (change password afterwards)

have fun!

Next: Installation and integration of the new InGraph Grapher Addon into icinga-web

Source: Icinga Wiki

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