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+# Icinga Cube
+
+The Icinga Cube is a tiny but useful [Icinga Web](https://github.com/Icinga/icingaweb2)
+module. It currently shows host and service statistics (total count, health) grouped by
+various custom variables in multiple dimensions.
+
+![Cube - Overview](img/cube_simple.png)
+
+It will be your new best friend in case you are running a large environment and
+want to get a quick answers to questions like:
+
+* Which project uses how many servers per environment at which location/site?
+ * Who occupies most servers?
+ * How many of those are used in production?
+ * Which project has only development and test boxes?
+* Which operating system is used for which project and in which environment?
+ * Do we still have Debian Lenny?
+ * Which projects are to blame for this?
+ * Do we have applications where the operating systems used differ in staging
+ and production?
+* Which project uses which operating system version for which application?
+ * Which projects have homogeneous environments?
+ * Which projects are at a consistent patch level?
+ * How many RHEL 6 variants (6.1, 6.2, 6.3...) do we use?
+ * Who is running the oldest ones? In production?
+* Which projects are still using physical servers in which environment?
+
+For Businessmen - Drill and Slice
+---------------------------------
+
+Get answers to your questions. Quick and fully autonomous, using the cube
+requires no technical skills. Choose amongst all available dimensions and rotate
+the Cube to fit your needs.
+
+![Cube - Configure Dimensions](img/cube_move-up.png)
+
+Want to drill down? Choose a slice and get your answers:
+
+![Cube - Configure Dimensions](img/cube_slice.png)
+
+All facts configured for systems monitored by [Icinga](https://www.icinga.com/)
+can be used for your research.
+
+For Icinga Director users
+-------------------------
+
+In case you are using the [Icinga Director](https://github.com/Icinga/icingaweb2-module-director),
+in addition to the multi-selection/edit feature the cube provides a nice way to
+modify multiple hosts at once.
+
+![Cube - Director multi-edit](img/cube_director.png)
+
+Installation
+------------
+
+To install Icinga Cube see [Installation](02-Installation.md).