[chef] Nagios alternative interfaces

[Morgan Blackthorne < >]

So I'm interested in checking out some of the alternative Nagios interfaces like Icinga, Thruk, or Centreon. One of our recent acquisitions uses Centreon, but I've heard a lot about Icinga.

However, in looking around at cookbooks, the three that I found for Icinga all seem to be htauth based on databag credentials (https://wiki.icinga.org/display/howtos/Chef). I've currently got Nagios configured against LDAP auth, so that feels like a (big) step backwards for me.

Has anyone fought this battle already, or should I pick one and rewind/fork it into submission / write my own cookbook? (With three Icinga cookbooks out there, reinventing the wheel yet again seems... like wasted effort, really.)

Also, has anyone worked with PHPNagios inside of the mainline Nagios cookbook?

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