Icinga 2 comes with a number of CLI commands which support bash autocompletion.
These CLI commands will allow you to use certain functionality provided by and around the Icinga 2 daemon.
Each CLI command provides its own help and usage information, so please
make sure to always run them with the --help
parameter.
Run icinga2
without any arguments to get a list of all available global
options.
# icinga2
icinga2 - The Icinga 2 network monitoring daemon (version: v2.6.0)
Usage:
icinga2 <command> [<arguments>]
Supported commands:
* api setup (setup for api)
* console (Icinga console)
* daemon (starts Icinga 2)
* feature disable (disables specified feature)
* feature enable (enables specified feature)
* feature list (lists all enabled features)
* node add (add node) (DEPRECATED)
* node blacklist add (adds a new blacklist filter) (DEPRECATED)
* node blacklist list (lists all blacklist filters) (DEPRECATED)
* node blacklist remove (removes a blacklist filter) (DEPRECATED)
* node list (lists all nodes) (DEPRECATED)
* node remove (removes node) (DEPRECATED)
* node set (set node attributes) (DEPRECATED)
* node setup (set up node)
* node update-config (update node config) (DEPRECATED)
* node whitelist add (adds a new whitelist filter) (DEPRECATED)
* node whitelist list (lists all whitelist filters) (DEPRECATED)
* node whitelist remove (removes a whitelist filter) (DEPRECATED)
* node wizard (wizard for node setup)
* object list (lists all objects)
* pki new-ca (sets up a new CA)
* pki new-cert (creates a new CSR)
* pki request (requests a certificate)
* pki save-cert (saves another Icinga 2 instance's certificate)
* pki sign-csr (signs a CSR)
* pki ticket (generates a ticket)
* repository clear-changes (clear uncommitted repository changes) (DEPRECATED)
* repository commit (commit repository changes) (DEPRECATED)
* repository endpoint add (adds a new Endpoint object) (DEPRECATED)
* repository endpoint list (lists all Endpoint objects) (DEPRECATED)
* repository endpoint remove (removes a Endpoint object) (DEPRECATED)
* repository host add (adds a new Host object) (DEPRECATED)
* repository host list (lists all Host objects) (DEPRECATED)
* repository host remove (removes a Host object) (DEPRECATED)
* repository service add (adds a new Service object) (DEPRECATED)
* repository service list (lists all Service objects) (DEPRECATED)
* repository service remove (removes a Service object) (DEPRECATED)
* repository zone add (adds a new Zone object) (DEPRECATED)
* repository zone list (lists all Zone objects) (DEPRECATED)
* repository zone remove (removes a Zone object) (DEPRECATED)
* troubleshoot (collect information for troubleshooting)
* variable get (gets a variable)
* variable list (lists all variables)
Global options:
-h [ --help ] show this help message
-V [ --version ] show version information
--color use VT100 color codes even when stdout is not a
terminal
-D [ --define ] arg define a constant
-a [ --app ] arg application library name (default: icinga)
-l [ --library ] arg load a library
-I [ --include ] arg add include search directory
-x [ --log-level ] arg specify the log level for the console log.
The valid value is either debug, notice,
information (default), warning, or critical
-X [ --script-debugger ] whether to enable the script debugger
Report bugs at <https://github.com/Icinga/icinga2>
Icinga home page: <https://www.icinga.com/>
Bash Auto-Completion (pressing <TAB>
) is provided only for the corresponding context.
While --config
will suggest and auto-complete files and directories on disk,
feature enable
will only suggest disabled features. Try it yourself.
RPM and Debian packages install the bash completion files into
/etc/bash_completion.d/icinga2
.
You will need to install the bash-completion
package if not already installed.
RHEL/CentOS/Fedora:
# yum install bash-completion
SUSE:
# zypper install bash-completion
Debian/Ubuntu:
# apt-get install bash-completion
Ensure that the bash-completion.d
directory is added to your shell
environment. You can manually source the icinga2 bash-completion file
into your current session and test it:
# source /etc/bash-completion.d/icinga2
By default the icinga2
binary loads the icinga
library. A different application type
can be specified with the --app
command-line option.
Instead of loading libraries using the library
config directive
you can also use the --library
command-line option.
Global constants can be set using the --define
command-line option.
When including files you can specify that the include search path should be checked. You can do this by putting your configuration file name in angle brackets like this:
include <test.conf>
This would cause Icinga 2 to search its include path for the configuration file
test.conf
. By default the installation path for the Icinga Template Library
is the only search directory.
Using the --include
command-line option additional search directories can be
added.
The CLI command console
can be used to evaluate Icinga 2 config expressions, e.g. to test
functions.
$ icinga2 console
Icinga 2 (version: v2.4.0)
<1> => function test(name) {
<1> .. log("Hello " + name)
<1> .. }
null
<2> => test("World")
information/config: Hello World
null
<3> =>
On operating systems without the libedit
library installed there is no
support for line-editing or a command history. However you can
use the rlwrap
program if you require those features:
$ rlwrap icinga2 console
The console
can be used to connect to a running Icinga 2 instance using
the REST API. API permissions
are required for executing config expressions and auto-completion.
Note The console does not currently support SSL certificate verification.
You can specify the API URL using the --connect
parameter.
Although the password can be specified there process arguments on UNIX platforms are
usually visible to other users (e.g. through ps
). In order to securely specify the
user credentials the console supports two environment variables:
Environment variable | Description |
---|---|
ICINGA2_API_USERNAME | The API username. |
ICINGA2_API_PASSWORD | The API password. |
Here's an example:
$ ICINGA2_API_PASSWORD=icinga icinga2 console --connect 'https://root@localhost:5665/'
Icinga 2 (version: v2.6.0)
<1> =>
Once connected you can inspect variables and execute other expressions by entering them at the prompt:
<1> => var h = get_host("example.localdomain")
null
<2> => h.last_check_result
{
active = true
check_source = "example.localdomain"
command = [ "/usr/local/sbin/check_ping", "-H", "127.0.0.1", "-c", "5000,100%", "-w", "3000,80%" ]
execution_end = 1446653527.174983
execution_start = 1446653523.152673
exit_status = 0.000000
output = "PING OK - Packet loss = 0%, RTA = 0.11 ms"
performance_data = [ "rta=0.114000ms;3000.000000;5000.000000;0.000000", "pl=0%;80;100;0" ]
schedule_end = 1446653527.175133
schedule_start = 1446653583.150000
state = 0.000000
type = "CheckResult"
vars_after = {
attempt = 1.000000
reachable = true
state = 0.000000
state_type = 1.000000
}
vars_before = {
attempt = 1.000000
reachable = true
state = 0.000000
state_type = 1.000000
}
}
<3> =>
You can use the --eval
parameter to evaluate a single expression in batch mode.
Using the --file
option you can specify a file which should be evaluated.
The output format for batch mode is JSON.
The --syntax-only
option can be used in combination with --eval
or --file
to check a script for syntax errors. In this mode the script is parsed to identify
syntax errors but not evaluated.
Here's an example that retrieves the command that was used by Icinga to check the example.localdomain
host:
$ ICINGA2_API_PASSWORD=icinga icinga2 console --connect 'https://root@localhost:5665/' --eval 'get_host("example.localdomain").last_check_result.command' | python -m json.tool
[
"/usr/local/sbin/check_ping",
"-H",
"127.0.0.1",
"-c",
"5000,100%",
"-w",
"3000,80%"
]
The CLI command daemon
provides the functionality to start/stop Icinga 2.
Furthermore it provides the configuration validation.
# icinga2 daemon --help
icinga2 - The Icinga 2 network monitoring daemon (version: v2.6.0)
Usage:
icinga2 daemon [<arguments>]
Starts Icinga 2.
Global options:
-h [ --help ] show this help message
-V [ --version ] show version information
--color use VT100 color codes even when stdout is not a
terminal
-D [ --define ] arg define a constant
-a [ --app ] arg application library name (default: icinga)
-l [ --library ] arg load a library
-I [ --include ] arg add include search directory
-x [ --log-level ] arg specify the log level for the console log.
The valid value is either debug, notice,
information (default), warning, or critical
-X [ --script-debugger ] whether to enable the script debugger
Command options:
-c [ --config ] arg parse a configuration file
-z [ --no-config ] start without a configuration file
-C [ --validate ] exit after validating the configuration
-e [ --errorlog ] arg log fatal errors to the specified log file (only
works in combination with --daemonize)
-d [ --daemonize ] detach from the controlling terminal
Report bugs at <https://github.com/Icinga/icinga2>
Icinga home page: <https://www.icinga.com/>
Using the --config
option you can specify one or more configuration files.
Configuration files are processed in the order they're specified on the command-line.
When no configuration file is specified and the --no-config
is not used
Icinga 2 automatically falls back to using the configuration file
SysconfDir + "/icinga2/icinga2.conf"
(where SysconfDir is usually /etc
).
The --validate
option can be used to check if your configuration files
contain errors. If any errors are found, the exit status is 1, otherwise 0
is returned. More details in the configuration validation chapter.
The feature enable
and feature disable
commands can be used to enable and disable features:
# icinga2 feature disable <tab>
--app --define --include --log-level --version checker graphite mainlog
--color --help --library --script-debugger api command ido-mysql notification
# icinga2 feature enable <tab>
--app --define --include --log-level --version debuglog ido-pgsql livestatus perfdata syslog
--color --help --library --script-debugger compatlog gelf influxdb opentsdb statusdata
The feature list
command shows which features are currently enabled:
# icinga2 feature list
Disabled features: compatlog debuglog gelf ido-pgsql influxdb livestatus opentsdb perfdata statusdata syslog
Enabled features: api checker command graphite ido-mysql mainlog notification
Warning
This CLI command and its sub commands except for
setup
andwizard
have been deprecated in v2.6 and will be removed in future releases.Make sure to follow the release announcements on the Icinga website.
Provides the functionality to install and manage master and client nodes in a distributed monitoring scenario.
# icinga2 node --help
icinga2 - The Icinga 2 network monitoring daemon (version: v2.6.0)
Usage:
icinga2 <command> [<arguments>]
Supported commands:
* node add (add node) (DEPRECATED)
* node blacklist add (adds a new blacklist filter) (DEPRECATED)
* node blacklist list (lists all blacklist filters) (DEPRECATED)
* node blacklist remove (removes a blacklist filter) (DEPRECATED)
* node list (lists all nodes) (DEPRECATED)
* node remove (removes node) (DEPRECATED)
* node set (set node attributes) (DEPRECATED)
* node setup (set up node)
* node update-config (update node config) (DEPRECATED)
* node whitelist add (adds a new whitelist filter) (DEPRECATED)
* node whitelist list (lists all whitelist filters) (DEPRECATED)
* node whitelist remove (removes a whitelist filter) (DEPRECATED)
* node wizard (wizard for node setup)
Global options:
-h [ --help ] show this help message
-V [ --version ] show version information
--color use VT100 color codes even when stdout is not a
terminal
-D [ --define ] arg define a constant
-a [ --app ] arg application library name (default: icinga)
-l [ --library ] arg load a library
-I [ --include ] arg add include search directory
-x [ --log-level ] arg specify the log level for the console log.
The valid value is either debug, notice,
information (default), warning, or critical
-X [ --script-debugger ] whether to enable the script debugger
Report bugs at <https://github.com/Icinga/icinga2>
Icinga home page: <https://www.icinga.com/>
The object
CLI command can be used to list all configuration objects and their
attributes. The command also shows where each of the attributes was modified.
That way you can also identify which objects have been created from your apply rules.
More information can be found in the troubleshooting section.
# icinga2 object --help
icinga2 - The Icinga 2 network monitoring daemon (version: v2.6.0)
Usage:
icinga2 <command> [<arguments>]
Supported commands:
* object list (lists all objects)
Global options:
-h [ --help ] show this help message
-V [ --version ] show version information
--color use VT100 color codes even when stdout is not a
terminal
-D [ --define ] arg define a constant
-a [ --app ] arg application library name (default: icinga)
-l [ --library ] arg load a library
-I [ --include ] arg add include search directory
-x [ --log-level ] arg specify the log level for the console log.
The valid value is either debug, notice,
information (default), warning, or critical
-X [ --script-debugger ] whether to enable the script debugger
Report bugs at <https://github.com/Icinga/icinga2>
Icinga home page: <https://www.icinga.com/>
Provides the CLI commands to
- generate a new certificate authority (CA)
- generate a new CSR or self-signed certificate
- sign a CSR and return a certificate
- save a master certificate manually
- request a signed certificate from the master
- generate a new ticket for the client setup
This functionality is used by the node setup/wizard CLI commands. You will need them in the distributed monitoring chapter.
# icinga2 pki --help
icinga2 - The Icinga 2 network monitoring daemon (version: v2.6.0)
Usage:
icinga2 <command> [<arguments>]
Supported commands:
* pki new-ca (sets up a new CA)
* pki new-cert (creates a new CSR)
* pki request (requests a certificate)
* pki save-cert (saves another Icinga 2 instance's certificate)
* pki sign-csr (signs a CSR)
* pki ticket (generates a ticket)
Global options:
-h [ --help ] show this help message
-V [ --version ] show version information
--color use VT100 color codes even when stdout is not a
terminal
-D [ --define ] arg define a constant
-a [ --app ] arg application library name (default: icinga)
-l [ --library ] arg load a library
-I [ --include ] arg add include search directory
-x [ --log-level ] arg specify the log level for the console log.
The valid value is either debug, notice,
information (default), warning, or critical
-X [ --script-debugger ] whether to enable the script debugger
Report bugs at <https://github.com/Icinga/icinga2>
Icinga home page: <https://www.icinga.com/>
Warning
This CLI command has been deprecated in v2.6 and will be removed in future releases.
Make sure to follow the release announcements on the Icinga website.
This command is experimental and not finished as public CLI command. Parts of its functionality are used in the node update-config cli command.
Collects basic information like version, paths, log files and crash reports for troubleshooting purposes and prints them to a file or the console. See troubleshooting.
Its output defaults to a file named troubleshooting-[TIMESTAMP].log
so it won't overwrite older troubleshooting files.
Keep in mind that this tool can not collect information from other icinga2 nodes, you will have to run it on each of one of you instances. This is only a tool to collect information to help others help you, it will not attempt to fix anything.
# icinga2 troubleshoot --help
icinga2 - The Icinga 2 network monitoring daemon (version: v2.6.0)
Usage:
icinga2 troubleshoot [<arguments>]
Collect logs and other relevant information for troubleshooting purposes.
Global options:
-h [ --help ] show this help message
-V [ --version ] show version information
--color use VT100 color codes even when stdout is not a
terminal
-D [ --define ] arg define a constant
-a [ --app ] arg application library name (default: icinga)
-l [ --library ] arg load a library
-I [ --include ] arg add include search directory
-x [ --log-level ] arg specify the log level for the console log.
The valid value is either debug, notice,
information (default), warning, or critical
-X [ --script-debugger ] whether to enable the script debugger
Command options:
-c [ --console ] print to console instead of file
-o [ --output ] arg path to output file
--include-objects Print the whole objectfile (like `object list`)
--include-vars Print all Variables (like `variable list`)
Report bugs at <https://github.com/Icinga/icinga2>
Icinga home page: <https://www.icinga.com/>
Lists all configured variables (constants) in a similar fashion like object list.
# icinga2 variable --help
icinga2 - The Icinga 2 network monitoring daemon (version: v2.6.0)
Usage:
icinga2 <command> [<arguments>]
Supported commands:
* variable get (gets a variable)
* variable list (lists all variables)
Global options:
-h [ --help ] show this help message
-V [ --version ] show version information
--color use VT100 color codes even when stdout is not a
terminal
-D [ --define ] arg define a constant
-a [ --app ] arg application library name (default: icinga)
-l [ --library ] arg load a library
-I [ --include ] arg add include search directory
-x [ --log-level ] arg specify the log level for the console log.
The valid value is either debug, notice,
information (default), warning, or critical
-X [ --script-debugger ] whether to enable the script debugger
Report bugs at <https://github.com/Icinga/icinga2>
Icinga home page: <https://www.icinga.com/>
Icinga 2 provides configuration files for some commonly used features. These
are installed in the /etc/icinga2/features-available
directory and can be
enabled and disabled using the icinga2 feature enable
and icinga2 feature disable
CLI commands, respectively.
The icinga2 feature enable
CLI command creates symlinks in the
/etc/icinga2/features-enabled
directory which is included by default
in the example configuration file.
You can view a list of enabled and disabled features:
# icinga2 feature list
Disabled features: api command compatlog debuglog graphite icingastatus ido-mysql ido-pgsql livestatus notification perfdata statusdata syslog
Enabled features: checker mainlog notification
Using the icinga2 feature enable
command you can enable features:
# icinga2 feature enable graphite
Enabling feature graphite. Make sure to restart Icinga 2 for these changes to take effect.
You can disable features using the icinga2 feature disable
command:
# icinga2 feature disable ido-mysql livestatus
Disabling feature ido-mysql. Make sure to restart Icinga 2 for these changes to take effect.
Disabling feature livestatus. Make sure to restart Icinga 2 for these changes to take effect.
The icinga2 feature enable
and icinga2 feature disable
commands do not
restart Icinga 2. You will need to restart Icinga 2 using the init script
after enabling or disabling features.
Once you've edited the configuration files make sure to tell Icinga 2 to validate the configuration changes. Icinga 2 will log any configuration error including a hint on the file, the line number and the affected configuration line itself.
The following example creates an apply rule without any assign
condition.
apply Service "5872-ping4" {
import "generic-service"
check_command = "ping4"
//assign where match("5872-*", host.name)
}
Validate the configuration with the init script option checkconfig
:
# /etc/init.d/icinga2 checkconfig
Note
Using systemd you need to manually validate the configuration using the CLI command below.
Or manually passing the -C
argument:
# /usr/sbin/icinga2 daemon -c /etc/icinga2/icinga2.conf -C
[2014-05-22 17:07:25 +0200] critical/ConfigItem: Location:
/etc/icinga2/conf.d/tests/5872.conf(5): }
/etc/icinga2/conf.d/tests/5872.conf(6):
/etc/icinga2/conf.d/tests/5872.conf(7): apply Service "5872-ping4" {
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
/etc/icinga2/conf.d/tests/5872.conf(8): import "test-generic-service"
/etc/icinga2/conf.d/tests/5872.conf(9): check_command = "ping4"
Config error: 'apply' is missing 'assign'
[2014-05-22 17:07:25 +0200] critical/ConfigItem: 1 errors, 0 warnings.
Icinga 2 detected configuration errors.
Tip
Icinga 2 will automatically detect the default path for
icinga2.conf
inSysconfDir + /icinga2/icinga2.conf
and you can safely omit this parameter.
# icinga2 daemon -C
If you encounter errors during configuration validation, please make sure to read the troubleshooting chapter.
You can also use the CLI command icinga2 object list
after validation passes to analyze object attributes, inheritance or created
objects by apply rules.
Find more on troubleshooting with object list
in this chapter.
Example filtered by Service
objects with the name ping*
:
# icinga2 object list --type Service --name *ping*
Object 'icinga.com!ping4' of type 'Service':
* __name = 'icinga.com!ping4'
* check_command = 'ping4'
% = modified in '/etc/icinga2/conf.d/services.conf', lines 17:3-17:25
* check_interval = 60
% = modified in '/etc/icinga2/conf.d/templates.conf', lines 28:3-28:21
* host_name = 'icinga.com'
% = modified in '/etc/icinga2/conf.d/services.conf', lines 14:1-14:21
* max_check_attempts = 3
% = modified in '/etc/icinga2/conf.d/templates.conf', lines 27:3-27:24
* name = 'ping4'
% = modified in '/etc/icinga2/conf.d/services.conf', lines 14:1-14:21
* retry_interval = 30
% = modified in '/etc/icinga2/conf.d/templates.conf', lines 29:3-29:22
* templates = [ 'ping4', 'generic-service' ]
% += modified in '/etc/icinga2/conf.d/services.conf', lines 14:1-14:21
% += modified in '/etc/icinga2/conf.d/templates.conf', lines 26:1-30:1
* type = 'Service'
* vars
% += modified in '/etc/icinga2/conf.d/services.conf', lines 18:3-18:19
* sla = '24x7'
% = modified in '/etc/icinga2/conf.d/services.conf', lines 18:3-18:19
Every time you have changed your configuration you should first tell Icinga 2 to validate. If there are no validation errors, you can safely reload the Icinga 2 daemon.
# systemctl reload icinga2
The reload
action will send the SIGHUP
signal to the Icinga 2 daemon
which will validate the configuration in a separate process and not stop
the other events like check execution, notifications, etc.