Icinga Director v1.2.0

What's new in version 1.2.0

Fixed a lot of issues and related features

• You can find issues and feature requests related to this release on our
  roadmap

Permissions and restrictions

• Permissions are now enforced. Please check your role definitions, permission
  names have changed and are now enforced everywhere
• Configuration preview, Inspect action, Deployment and others can be granted
  independently

Auditing

• Director provides a nice activity log. Now it is also possible to additionally
  log to Syslog or File in case you want to archive all actions elsewhere. Access
  to the audit log in the Director can be controlled with a new permission

Configuration kickstart

• Now imports also existing notification commands
• Kickstart can be re-triggered on demand at any time

Performance

• Config rendering got a huge performance boost. In large environments we
  managed it to deploy a real-world configuration 5 times as fast as before

Import / Sync

• Various improvements have been applied, mostly hidden small features that should
  make work easier. Better form field descriptions, more possibilities when it
  goes to syncing special fields like "imports"
• Property modifiers can now generate new modified columns at import time
• New property modifiers are available. There is a pretty flexible DNS lookup, you
  can cast to Integer or Boolean, JSON decoding and more is offered
• Datalist entries can now be imported and synchronized, this was broken in 1.1

Configuration possibilities

• You can now define assign rules nested as deep as you want, based on all host
  and/or service properties
• It is now possible to define "assign for" constructs, looping over hashes or
  dictionaries
• Improved Icinga 2 DSL support in commands, implicit support for skip_key
• More and more developers are contributing code. We therefore simplified the
  way to launch our unit tests and provided related documentation
• Other objects can be referred as a dropdown or similar in custom variables

GUI and usability

• Form error handling got a lot of tweaking, eventual exceptions are caught in
  various places and presented in a readable way
• The deployment button is now easier to find
• Configuration preview has been improved and allows a full config diff even
  before deploying the configuration
• Inheritance loops are now shown in a nice way and can be resolved in the GUI
• A new hidden gem is the multiedit functionality. Press SHIFT/CTRL while
  selecting multiple hosts and modify imports, custom vars and other properties
  for all of them at once
• Errors or warnings in all historic startup logs now link directly to the
  related config file at the time being, pointing to the referred line

Agent setup

• The Windows kickstart script got some small improvements and now enables all
  related ITL commands per default

CLI

• You can find a few new commands, with the ability to list or fetch all hosts
  at once in various ways being the most prominent one

Related modules

• There are now more additional modules implementing Director Hooks. AWS import
  for EC2 instances, ELBs and Autoscaling Groups. File import for CSV, JSON,
  YAML and XML. We heard from various successful Import source implementations
  in custom projects and would love to see more of those being publicly available!

Icinga Director v1.1.0

What's new in version 1.1.0

Fixed a lot of issues and related features

• You can find issues and feature requests related to this release on our
  roadmap

Icinga Agent handling

• A lot of effort has been put into making config deployment easier for
  environments with lots of Icinga Agents
• Related bugs have been fixed, the generated configuration should now work fine
  in distributed environments
• A customized Powershell Script for automatic Windows Agent setup is provided

Apply Rules

• It's now possible to work with apply rules in various places

Notifications

• All components required to deploy notifications are now available. ENV for
  commands is still missing, however it's pretty easy to work around this

Automation

• Job Scheduler and Job Runner have been introduced. Import, Sync, Deploy and
  run Housekeeping in the background with full control and feedback in the GUI
• There is a new intelligent purge option allowing one to purge only those
  objects that vanished at involved Import Sources between multiple Import and
  Sync Runs.

Data Types

• Booleans, Integers and Arrays are now first-class citizens when dealing with
  custom variables