[Pkg-nagios-devel] Bug#757104: Bug#757104: Bug#757104: icinga2-classicui: start page displays icinga1 information

[Markus Frosch]

Hi Jonas,

On Mo, 2014-09-01 at 17:04 +0200, Jonas Meurer wrote:
> Hi Markus,
> 
> Am 2014-08-29 14:00, schrieb Markus Frosch:
> > thanks for your feedback, let me try to answer your issues.
> > 
> >> when using icinga2-classicui together with icinga2, the start page is
> >> missleading. It displays version details about the version of 
> >> installed
> >> icinga-cgi package:
> >> 
> >> > Version 1.11.5
> >> > Juni 20, 2014
> >> > Read what's new in Icinga 1.11.5
> > 
> > Thats actually correct, because the ClassicUI you are using *is* 
> > version
> > 1.11.5.
> > 
> > It is simply a web interface, that supports Icinga 2. I wanted to avoid
> > changing to many files, simply to make it simple to use, and to update.
> 
> I understand your rationale and am agree that it's not too important to
> change the main.html for now. But once icinga2 becomes more common as
> productive monitoring system I suggest that this should be fixed 
> upstream.

The Classic UI will never be the main interface for Icinga 2, this will
be the upcoming Icinga Web 2.

Which I'm not sure if it will be ready until Jessie's freeze.

But in the long shot (jessie+1) icingaweb2 will be default, and possibly
the ClassicUI removed by then.

> >> Either the icinga2-classicui package should replace this default start
> >> page, or icinga-cgi should detect which backend icinga server it
> >> connects to and display respective information instead.
> > 
> > The CGIs do detect which backend is used, but this is not displayed in
> > the static HTML pages, only the CGIs themselves.
> 
> Either the default page should be replaced by a cgi as well or the 
> volatile
> information should be ripped out of it.

If someone updates that part of the upstream project we (Icinga Team)
might include it :)


Cheers
Markus

-- 
Markus Frosch
lazyfrosch at debian.org / markus at lazyfrosch.de
http://www.lazyfrosch.de
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