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+<a id="Introduction"></a>Introduction
+=====================================
+
+Welcome to the Icinga Director, the bleeding edge configuration tool for
+Icinga 2! Developed as an Icinga Web 2 module it aims to be your new
+favorite Icinga config deployment tool. Even if you prefer plain text
+files and manual configuration, chances are good that the Director will
+change your mind.
+
+Director is here to make your life easier. As an Icinga 2 pro you know
+all the knobs and tricks Icinga2 provides. However, you are not willing
+to do the same work again and again. Someone wants to add a new server,
+tweak some thresholds, adjust notifications? They shouldn't need to
+bother you.
+
+No way, you might think. You do not trust your users, they might break
+things. Well... no. Not with the Director. It provides an audit log that
+shows any single change. You can re-deploy old configurations at any time.
+And you will be allowed to restrict what your users are allowed to do in
+a very granular way.
+
+Doing automation? Want to feed your monitoring from your configuration
+management tool, or from your CMDB? You'll love the endless possibilities
+Director provides.
+
+
+Basic architecture
+------------------
+
+Icinga Director uses the Icinga 2 API to talk to your monitoring system.
+It will help you to deploy your configuration, regardless of whether you
+are using a single node Icinga installation or a distributed setup with
+multiple masters and satellites.
+
+ +------------+ +--------------+ +------------+
+ | Sat 1 / EU | | Sat 2 / Asia | | Sat 3 / US |
+ +------------+ +--------------+ +------------+
+ \ / /
+ \ / /
+ +-------------+ +-------------+
+ | Master 1 | <===> | Master 2 | (Master-Zone)
+ +-------------+ +-------------+
+ ^ ^
+ | Icinga 2 REST API :
+ | :
+ +----------------------------+
+ | Icinga Director |
+ +----------------------------+
+
+Using the Icinga 2 Agent? Perfect, the Director will make your life much
+easier!
diff --git a/doc/02-Installation.md b/doc/02-Installation.md
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+<!-- {% if index %} -->
+# Installing Icinga Director
+
+The recommended way to install Icinga Director and its dependencies is to use prebuilt packages for
+all supported platforms from our official release repository.
+Please note that [Icinga Web](https://icinga.com/docs/icinga-web) is required to run Icinga Director
+and if it is not already set up, it is best to do this first.
+
+The following steps will guide you through installing and setting up Icinga Director.
+
+To upgrade an existing Icinga Director installation to a newer version,
+see the [upgrading](05-Upgrading.md) documentation for the necessary steps.
+
+If you want to automate the installation, configuration and upgrade,
+you can learn more about it in the [automation](03-Automation.md) section of this documentation.
+
+## Optional Requirements
+
+The following requirements are not necessary for installation,
+but may be needed later if you want to import from one of the listed sources:
+
+* For **IBM Db2** imports: `php-pdo-ibm`
+* For **Microsoft SQL Server** imports: `php-mssql`, `php-pdo-dblib` or `php-sybase` depending on your platform
+* For **Oracle Database** imports: `php-oci8` or `php-pdo-oci` depending on your platform
+* For **SQLite** imports: `php-pdo-sqlite`
+<!-- {% else %} -->
+<!-- {% if not icingaDocs %} -->
+
+## Installing Icinga Director Package
+
+If the [repository](https://packages.icinga.com) is not configured yet, please add it first.
+Then use your distribution's package manager to install the `icinga-director` package
+or install [from source](02-Installation.md.d/From-Source.md).
+<!-- {% endif %} -->
+
+## Setting up the Database
+
+A MySQL (≥5.7), MariaDB (≥10.1), or PostgreSQL (≥9.6) database is required to run Icinga Director.
+Please follow the steps listed for your target database, to set up the database and the user.
+The schema will be imported later via the web interface.
+
+### Setting up a MySQL or MariaDB Database
+
+> **Warning**
+> Make sure to replace `CHANGEME` with a secure password.
+
+```
+mysql -e "CREATE DATABASE director CHARACTER SET 'utf8';
+ CREATE USER director@localhost IDENTIFIED BY 'CHANGEME';
+ GRANT ALL ON director.* TO director@localhost;"
+```
+
+### Setting up a PostgreSQL Database
+
+> **Warning**
+> Make sure to replace `CHANGEME` with a secure password.
+
+```
+psql -q -c "CREATE DATABASE director WITH ENCODING 'UTF8';"
+psql director -q -c "CREATE USER director WITH PASSWORD 'CHANGEME';
+GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON DATABASE director TO director;
+CREATE EXTENSION pgcrypto;"
+```
+
+## Configuring Icinga Director
+
+Log in to your running Icinga Web setup with a privileged user
+and follow the steps below to configure Icinga Director:
+
+1. Create a new resource for the Icinga Director [database](#setting-up-the-database) via the
+ `Configuration → Application → Resources` menu.
+ Please make sure that you configure `utf8` as encoding.
+2. Select `Icinga Director` directly from the main menu
+ and you will be taken to the kickstart wizard. Follow the instructions and you are done!
+<!-- {% endif %} --><!-- {# end else if index #} -->
diff --git a/doc/02-Installation.md.d/From-Source.md b/doc/02-Installation.md.d/From-Source.md
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+# Installing Icinga Director from Source
+
+These are the instructions for manual Director installations.
+
+Please see the Icinga Web documentation on
+[how to install modules](https://icinga.com/docs/icinga-web-2/latest/doc/08-Modules/#installation) from source.
+Make sure you use `director` as the module name. The following requirements must also be met.
+
+## Requirements
+
+* PHP (≥7.3)
+ * Director v1.10 is the last version with support for PHP v5.6
+* [Icinga 2](https://github.com/Icinga/icinga2) (≥2.8.0)
+ * It is recommended to use the latest feature release of Icinga 2
+ * All versions since 2.4.3 should also work fine, but
+ we do no longer test and support them.
+ * Some features require newer Icinga 2 releases
+ * Flapping requires 2.8 for the thresholds to work - and at least 2.7 on all
+ nodes
+* [Icinga Web](https://github.com/Icinga/icingaweb2) (≥2.8.0). All versions since 2.2 should also work fine, but
+ might show smaller UI bugs and are not actively tested
+* The following Icinga modules must be installed and enabled:
+ * [incubator](https://github.com/Icinga/icingaweb2-module-incubator) (≥0.18.0)
+ * If you are using Icinga Web <2.9.0, the following modules are also required
+ * [ipl](https://github.com/Icinga/icingaweb2-module-ipl) (≥0.5.0)
+ * [reactbundle](https://github.com/Icinga/icingaweb2-module-reactbundle) (≥0.9.0)
+* A database: MariaDB (≥10.1), MySQL (≥5.7), PostgreSQL (≥9.6). Other
+ forks and older versions might work, but are neither tested nor supported
+* `php-pdo-mysql` and/or `php-pdo-pgsql`
+* `php-curl`
+* `php-iconv`
+* `php-pcntl` (might already be built into your PHP binary)
+* `php-posix` or `php-process` depending on your platform
+* `php-sockets` (might already be built into your PHP binary)
+
+## Installing from Release Tarball
+
+Download the [latest version](https://github.com/Icinga/icingaweb2-module-director/releases)
+and extract it to a folder named `director` in one of your Icinga Web module path directories.
+
+You might want to use a script as follows for this task:
+
+```shell
+MODULE_VERSION="1.10.2"
+ICINGAWEB_MODULEPATH="/usr/share/icingaweb2/modules"
+REPO_URL="https://github.com/icinga/icingaweb2-module-director"
+TARGET_DIR="${ICINGAWEB_MODULEPATH}/director"
+URL="${REPO_URL}/archive/v${MODULE_VERSION}.tar.gz"
+
+install -d -m 0755 "${TARGET_DIR}"
+wget -q -O - "$URL" | tar xfz - -C "${TARGET_DIR}" --strip-components 1
+icingacli module enable director
+```
+
+## Installing from Git Repository
+
+Another convenient method is to install directly from our Git repository.
+Simply clone the repository in one of your Icinga web module path directories.
+
+You might want to use a script as follows for this task:
+
+```shell
+MODULE_VERSION="1.10.2"
+ICINGAWEB_MODULEPATH="/usr/share/icingaweb2/modules"
+REPO_URL="https://github.com/icinga/icingaweb2-module-director"
+TARGET_DIR="${ICINGAWEB_MODULEPATH}/director"
+
+git clone "${REPO_URL}" "${TARGET_DIR}" --branch v${MODULE_VERSION}
+icingacli module enable director
+```
+
+## Setting up the Director Daemon
+
+For manual installations, the daemon user, its directory, and the systemd service need to be set up:
+
+```shell
+useradd -r -g icingaweb2 -d /var/lib/icingadirector -s /sbin/nologin icingadirector
+install -d -o icingadirector -g icingaweb2 -m 0750 /var/lib/icingadirector
+install -pm 0644 contrib/systemd/icinga-director.service /etc/systemd/system
+systemctl daemon-reload
+systemctl enable --now icinga-director
+```
+<!-- {% include "02-Installation.md" %} -->
diff --git a/doc/03-Automation.md b/doc/03-Automation.md
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+<a id="Automation"></a>Automation - Configuration management
+============================================================
+
+Director has been designed to work in distributed environments. In case
+you're using tools like Puppet, Ansible, Salt (R)?ex or similar, this
+chapter is what you're looking for!
+
+Generic hints
+-------------
+
+Director keeps all of its configuration in a relational database. So,
+all you need to tell him is how it can reach and access that db. In case
+you already rolled out Icinga Web 2 you should already be used to handle
+resource definitions.
+
+The Director needs a `database resource`, and your RDBMS must either by
+MySQL, MariaDB or PostgreSQL. This is how such a resource could look like
+in your `/etc/icingaweb2/resources.ini`:
+
+```ini
+[Director DB]
+type = "db"
+db = "mysql"
+host = "localhost"
+dbname = "director"
+username = "director"
+password = "***"
+charset = "utf8"
+```
+
+Please note that the charset is required and MUST be `utf8`.
+
+Next you need to tell the Director to use this database resource. Create
+its `config.ini` with the only required setting:
+
+```ini
+[db]
+resource = "Director DB"
+```
+
+Hint: `/etc/icingaweb2/modules/director/config.ini` is usually the full
+path to this config file.
+
+#### Schema creation and migrations
+
+You do not need to manually care about creating the schema and to migrate
+it for newer versions. Just `grant` the configured user all permissions on
+his database.
+
+On CLI then please run:
+
+ icingacli director migration run --verbose
+
+You should run this command after each upgrade, or you could also run it
+at a regular interval. Please have a look at...
+
+ icingacli director migration pending --verbose
+
+...in case you are looking for an idempotent way of managing the schema.
+Use `--help` to learn more about those commands.
+
+If you have any good reason for doing so and feel experienced enough you
+can of course also manage the schema on your own. All required files are
+to be found in our `schema` directories.
+
+
+Deploy Icinga Director with Puppet
+----------------------------------
+
+Drop the director source repository to a directory named `director` in
+one of your `module_path`'s and enable the module as you did with all the
+others.
+
+Deploy the mentioned database resource and `config.ini`. Director could
+now be configured and kick-started via the web frontend. But you are here
+for automation, so please read on.
+
+### Handle schema migrations
+
+It doesn't matter whether you already have a schema, did a fresh install
+or just an upgrade. Migrations are as easy as defining:
+
+ exec { 'Icinga Director DB migration':
+ path => '/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin',
+ command => 'icingacli director migration run',
+ onlyif => 'icingacli director migration pending',
+ }
+
+Hint: please do not travel back in time, schema downgrades are not
+supported.
+
+### Kickstart an empty Director database
+
+The Director kickstart wizard helps you with setting up a connection to
+Icinga2 master node, import its endpoint and zone definition and it also
+syncs already configured command definitions. But this wizard is not only
+available through the web frontend, you can perfectly trigger it in an
+idempotent way with Puppet:
+
+ exec { 'Icinga Director Kickstart':
+ path => '/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin',
+ command => 'icingacli director kickstart run',
+ onlyif => 'icingacli director kickstart required',
+ require => Exec['Icinga Director DB migration'],
+ }
+
+Nothing will happen so far. Kickstart will not do anything unless you
+drop a `kickstart.ini` allowing the CLI kickstart helper to do so:
+
+```ini
+[config]
+endpoint = icinga-master
+; host = 127.0.0.1
+; port = 5665
+username = director
+password = ***
+```
+
+Usually `/etc/icingaweb2/modules/director/kickstart.ini` should be the
+full path to this file. `endpoint` (master certificate name), `username`
+and `password` (fitting an already configured `ApiUser`) are required.
+`host` can be a resolvable hostname or an IP address. `port` is 5665 per
+default in case none is given. And of course your Icinga2 installation
+needs to have a corresponding `ApiListener` (look at your enabled
+features) listening at the given port.
+
+You can run the `kickstart` from the CLI if you don't use a tool for
+automation.
+
+ icingacli director kickstart run
+
+You can rerun the kickstart if you have to reimport changed local
+config, even when the beforementioned check tells you you don't need to.
+Or you could use the import/synchronisation features of Director.
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+<a id="Getting-started"></a>Getting started
+===========================================
+
+When new to the Director please make your first steps with a naked Icinga
+environment. Director is not allowed to modify existing configuration in
+`/etc/icinga2`. And while importing existing config is possible (happens for
+example automagically at kickstart time), it is a pretty advanced task you
+should not tackle at the early beginning.
+
+Define a new global zone
+------------------------
+
+This zone must exist on every node directly or indirectly managed by the
+Icinga Director:
+
+```icinga2
+object Zone "director-global" {
+ global = true
+}
+```
+
+Create an API user
+------------------
+
+```icinga2
+object ApiUser "director" {
+ password = "***"
+ permissions = [ "*" ]
+ //client_cn = ""
+}
+```
+
+To allow the configuration of an API user your Icinga 2 instance needs a
+`zone` and an `endpoint` object for itself. If you have a clustered
+setup or you are using agents you already have this. If you are using a
+fresh Icinga 2 installation or a standalone setup with other ways of
+checking your clients, you will have to create them.
+
+The easiest way to set up Icinga 2 with a `zone` and `endpoint` is by
+running the [Icinga 2 Setup Wizard](https://docs.icinga.com/icinga2/latest/doc/module/icinga2/chapter/distributed-monitoring#distributed-monitoring-setup-master).
+
+Take some time to really understand how to work with Icinga Director first.
+
+
+Other topics that might interest you
+------------------------------------
+
+* [Working with agents](24-Working-with-agents.md)
+* [Understanding how Icinga Director works](10-How-it-works.md)
+
+What you should not try to start with
+-------------------------------------
+
+Director has not been built to help you with managing existing hand-crafted
+configuration in /etc/icinga2. There are cases where it absolutely would
+make sense to combine the Director with manual configuration. You can also
+use multiple tools owning separate config packages. But these are pretty
+advanced topics.
+
+
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+<a id="Upgrading"></a>Upgrading
+===============================
+
+Icinga Director is very upgrade-friendly. We never had any complaint referring
+data loss on upgrade. But to be on the safe side, please always [backup](#backup-first)
+your database before running an upgrade.
+
+Then drop the new version to your Icinga Web 2 module folder, and you're all done.
+Eventually refresh the page in your browser<sup>[[1]](#footnote1)</sup>, and you
+are ready to go.
+
+Should there any other actions be required (like [schema migrations](#schema-migrations)),
+you will be told so in your frontend.
+
+Please read more about:
+
+* [Database Backup](#backup-first)
+* [Upgrading to 1.10.x](#upgrade-to-1.10.x)
+* [Upgrading to 1.9.x](#upgrade-to-1.9.x)
+* [Upgrading to 1.8.x](#upgrade-to-1.8.x)
+* [Upgrading to 1.7.x](#upgrade-to-1.7.x)
+* [Upgrading to 1.6.x](#upgrade-to-1.6.x)
+* [Upgrading to 1.5.x](#upgrade-to-1.5.x)
+* [Upgrading to 1.4.x](#upgrade-to-1.4.x)
+* [Upgrading to 1.3.0](#upgrade-to-1.3.0)
+* [Upgrading to 1.2.0](#upgrade-to-1.2.0)
+* [Upgrading to 1.1.0](#upgrade-to-1.1.0)
+* [How to work with the latest GIT master](#git-master)
+* [Database schema upgrades](#schema-migrations)
+* [Job Runner restart](#restart-jobrunner)
+* [Downgrading](#downgrade)
+
+And last but not least, having a look at our [Changelog](82-Changelog.md) is
+usually a good idea before applying an upgrade.
+
+<a name="backup-first"></a>Always take a backup first
+-----------------------------------------------------
+
+All you need for backing up your Director is a snapshot of your database. Please
+use the tools provided by your database backend, like `mysqldump` or `pg_dump`.
+Restoring from a backup is trivial, and Director will always be able to apply
+pending database migrations to an imported old database snapshot.
+
+<a name="upgrade-to-1.9.x"></a>Upgrading to 1.10.x
+--------------------------------------------------
+
+Please check module dependencies, we raised some of them. In case you're missing
+one of them, the Web UI will tell you after the upgrade. You'll then be prompted
+to apply pending Database Migrations.
+
+PHP 7.3 is now claimed to be required, but we still support 5.6+ on Director
+v1.10.x. Same goes for database dependencies: you should upgrade them to recent
+versions, but v1.10 still works on the ones supported with v1.9.x.
+
+<a name="upgrade-to-1.9.x"></a>Upgrading to 1.9.x
+-------------------------------------------------
+
+Please check module dependencies, we raised some of them. In case you're missing
+one of them, the Web UI will tell you after the upgrade. You'll then be prompted
+to apply pending Database Migrations.
+
+<a name="upgrade-to-1.8.x"></a>Upgrading to 1.8.x
+-------------------------------------------------
+
+Before upgrading, please upgrade the [incubator module](https://github.com/Icinga/icingaweb2-module-incubator)
+to (at least) v0.6.0. As always, you'll be prompted to apply pending Database
+Migrations.
+
+<a name="upgrade-to-1.7.x"></a>Upgrading to 1.7.x
+-------------------------------------------------
+
+Since v1.7.0 Icinga Director requires at least PHP 5.6. Also, this version
+introduces new dependencies. Please make sure that the following Icinga Web 2
+modules have been installed and enabled:
+
+* [ipl](https://github.com/Icinga/icingaweb2-module-ipl) (>=0.3.0)
+* [incubator](https://github.com/Icinga/icingaweb2-module-incubator) (>=0.5.0)
+* [reactbundle](https://github.com/Icinga/icingaweb2-module-reactbundle) (>=0.7.0)
+
+Also, the following PHP libraries should be available:
+
+* php-pcntl (might already be built into your PHP binary)
+* php-posix (on RHEL/CentOS this is php-process, or rh-php7x-php-process)
+* php-sockets (might already be built into your PHP binary)
+
+Apart from this, in case you are running 1.6.x or any GIT master since then,
+all you need is to replace the Director module folder with the new one. Or to
+run `git checkout v1.7.x` in case you installed Director from GIT.
+
+As always, you'll then be prompted to apply pending Database Migrations. There
+is now a new, modern (and mandatory) Background Daemon, the old (optional) Jobs
+Daemon must be removed. Please check our [documentation](75-Background-Daemon.md)
+for related instructions.
+
+<a name="upgrade-to-1.6.x"></a>Upgrading to 1.6.x
+-------------------------------------------------
+
+There is nothing special to take care of. In case you are running 1.5.x or any
+GIT master since then, all you need is to replace the Director module folder
+with the new one. Or to run git checkout v1.6.0 in case you installed Director
+from GIT.
+
+As always, you'll then be prompted to apply pending Database Migrations.
+
+<a name="upgrade-to-1.5.x"></a>Upgrading to 1.5.x
+-------------------------------------------------
+
+There is nothing special to take care of. In case you are running 1.4.x or any
+GIT master since then, all you need is to replace the Director module folder
+with the new one. Or to run git checkout v1.5.0 in case you installed Director
+from GIT.
+
+As always, you'll then be prompted to apply pending Database Migrations.
+
+<a name="upgrade-to-1.4.x"></a>Upgrading to 1.4.x
+-------------------------------------------------
+
+Since v1.4.0 Icinga Director requires at least PHP 5.4. Apart from this, there
+is nothing special to take care of. In case you are running 1.3.x or any GIT
+master since then, all you need is to replace the Director module folder with
+the new one. Or to run `git checkout v1.4.x` in case you installed Director
+from GIT.
+
+<a name="upgrade-to-1.3.x"></a>Upgrading to 1.3.x
+-------------------------------------------------
+
+In case you are running 1.2.0 or any GIT master since then, all you need is to
+replace the Director module folder with the new one. Or to run `git checkout v1.3.x`
+in case you installed Director from GIT.
+
+When running Director since 1.1.0 or earlier on PostgreSQL, you might not yet
+have the PostgreSQL crypto extension installed (Package: `postgresql-contrib`) and
+enabled:
+
+ psql -q -c "CREATE EXTENSION pgcrypto;"
+
+
+<a name="upgrade-to-1.2.0"></a>Upgrading to 1.2.0
+-------------------------------------------------
+
+There is nothing special to take care of. In case you are running 1.1.0 or any
+GIT master since then, all you need is to replace the Director module folder with
+the new one. Or to run `git checkout v1.2.0` in case you installed Director from
+GIT.
+
+<a name="upgrade-to-1.1.0"></a>Upgrading to 1.1.0
+-------------------------------------------------
+
+There is nothing special to take care of. In case you are running 1.0.0 or any
+GIT master since then, all you need is to replace the Director module folder with
+the new one. Or to run `git checkout v1.1.0` in case you installed Director from
+GIT.
+
+<a name="git-master"></a>Work with the latest GIT master
+--------------------------------------------------------
+
+Icinga Director is still a very young project. Lots of changes are going on,
+a lot of improvements, bug fixes and new features are still being added every
+month. People living on the bleeding edge might prefer to use all of them as
+soon as possible.
+
+So here is the good news: this is no problem at all. It's absolutely legal and
+encouraged to run Director as a pure GIT clone, installed as such:
+
+```sh
+ICINGAWEB_MODULES=/usr/share/icingaweb2/modules
+DIRECTOR_GIT=https://github.com/Icinga/icingaweb2-module-director.git
+git clone $DIRECTOR_GIT $ICINGAWEB_MODULES/director
+```
+
+Don't worry about schema upgrades. Once they made it into our GIT master there
+will always be a clean upgrade path for you, no manual interaction should ever
+be required. Like every human being, we are not infallible. So, while our strict
+policy says that the master should never break, this might of course happen.
+
+In that case, please [let us know](https://github.com/Icinga/icingaweb2-module-director/issues).
+We'll try to fix your issue as soon as possible.
+
+<a name="schema-migrations"></a>Database schema migrations
+----------------------------------------------------------
+
+In case there are any DB schema upgrades (and that's still often the case) this
+is no problem at all. They will pop up on your Director Dashboard and can be
+applied with a single click. And if your Director is deployed automatically by
+and automation tool like Puppet, also schema upgrades can easily be handled
+that way. Just follow the [related examples](03-Automation.md) in our documentation.
+
+<a name="schema-migrations"></a>Manual schema migrations
+----------------------------------------------------------
+
+Please *do not* manually apply our schema migration files. We are very strict
+about our connection settings, encodings and SQL modes. Client encoding MUST be
+UTF-8, for MySQL and MariaDB we are using the following SQL Mode:
+
+```sql
+SET SESSION SQL_MODE='STRICT_ALL_TABLES,NO_ZERO_IN_DATE,NO_ZERO_DATE,
+ERROR_FOR_DIVISION_BY_ZERO,NO_AUTO_CREATE_USER,ANSI_QUOTES,PIPES_AS_CONCAT,
+NO_ENGINE_SUBSTITUTION';
+```
+
+Our migration files are written based on the assumption that those rules are
+strictly followed, and there may be other ones in future. So please use one
+of the supported migration methods either on the web or on command line and
+stay away from directly interfering with the schema.
+
+<a name="restart-jobrunner"></a>Restart the Job Runner service
+--------------------------------------------------------------
+
+The Job Runner forks it's jobs, so usually a changed code base will take effect
+immediately. However, there might be (schema or code) changes involving the Runner
+process itself. To be on the safe side please always restart it after an upgrade,
+even when it's just a quick `git pull`:
+
+```sh
+systemctl restart director-jobs.service
+```
+
+<a name="downgrade"></a>Downgrading
+-----------------------------------
+
+Downgrading is **not supported**. Most parts of the code will even refuse to
+work in case there are new fields in their database tables. Migrations are
+intentionally provided for upgrades only. In case you want to travel back in
+time please restore a matching former [Database Backup](#backup-first).
+
+<a name="footnote1">[1]</a>:
+Future Icinga Web 2 version will also take care of this step. We want to be
+able to have the latest JavaScript and CSS for any active module to be shipped
+silently without manual interaction to any connected browser within less then
+15 seconds after the latest module has been installed, enabled or upgraded.
diff --git a/doc/10-How-it-works.md b/doc/10-How-it-works.md
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+<a id="How-it-works"></a>How it works
+=====================================
+
+This chapter wants to give you some basic understanding of how the
+Director works with your Icinga installation. At least once you start
+to work with satellite zones it might be worth to give this a read.
+
+
+How your configuration is going to be rendered
+----------------------------------------------
+
+First of all, the Director doesn't write to `/etc/icinga2`. That's where
+you keep to store your manual configuration and that's where you are
+required to do the basic config tasks required to get Icinga 2 ready for
+the Director.
+
+The Director uses the Icinga 2 API to ship the configuration. It does
+so by shipping full config packages, it does not deal with single
+objects. This makes deployments much faster. It also makes it easier to
+eventually use Director in parallel with manual configuration or
+configuration shipped by other tools.
+
+Internally, Icinga 2 manages part of its configuration in its `var/lib`
+directory. This is usually to be found in `/var/lib/icinga2`. Config
+packages are stored to `/var/lib/icinga2/api/packages` once shipped
+through the API. So as soon as you deployed your first configuration
+with the Director, there will be a new timestamped subdirectory
+containing the new configuration.
+
+Those subdirectories are called stages. You'll often see more than one
+of them. When a new config is deployed, Icinga 2 tries to restart with
+that new stage. In case it fails, Icinga 2 will keep running with the
+former configuration. When it succeeds, it will terminate the old process
+and keep running with the new configuration.
+
+In either scenario, it writes an exit code and its startup log to the
+corresponding stage directory. This allows the Director to check back
+later on to fetch this information. That's why you see all those nice
+startup log outputs along with your deployment history in your frontend.
+
+The configuration in such a stage directory is structured like your
+Icinga 2 config directory in `/etc`: there is a `conf.d` and a `zones.d`
+subdirectory. In `zones.d` Director will create a subdirectory for each
+Zone it wants to deploy config to.
+
+Please note that those `zones.d` subdirectories are subject to config
+sync. To get them syncronized to other nodes, the following must be
+true for them:
+
+* they must have a zone definition for that zone in their local config
+* they must make part of your deployment endpoints zone or be a direct
+ or indirect subzone of that one
+* the `accept_config` setting must be `true` in their `ApiListener`
+ object definition
+
+The director does not try to create additional zones your nodes do not
+know about. In a distributed environment it is essential that the
+Director can ship parts of the configuration to specific zones and
+other parts to a global zone. The name of its preferred global zone
+is currently hardcoded to `director-global`. Please make sure that such
+a zone exists on all involved nodes that should get config from the
+Director in a direct or indirect way:
+
+```icinga2
+object Zone "director-global" {
+ global = true
+}
+```
+
+Please do not use this zone for your own configuration files.
+There is a zone called `global-templates` available in default Icinga
+setups that's meant for configuration files. `director-global` is reserved
+for use by Icinga Director.
+
+Zone membership handling
+------------------------
+
+Mostly you do not need to care much about Zones when working with the
+Director. In case you have no Satellite node, you wouldn't even notice
+their existence.
+
+You are not required to deal with Agent Zones, as the Director does
+this for you. Please refer to [Working with agents](24-Working-with-agents.md)
+for related examples.
+
+Currently the GUI does not allow you to set the zone property on single
+objects. You can circumvent this through the Director's [REST API](70-REST-API.md),
+with Sync rules and through the CLI. However, that shouldn't be part
+of your normal workflow. So if this restriction causes trouble with what
+you want to build please let us know. Explain your scenario, make us
+understand what you want to achieve.
+
+We think of this restriction being a good idea, as it makes things
+easier for most people. That doesn't mean that we would refuse to change
+our mind on this. At least not if you come up with a very good
+reasonable use case.
+
+
+Object rendering
+----------------
+
+This chapter explains where the Director renders which config object to.
+
+* Most objects are rendered to the master zone per default
+* Templates, commands and apply rules are rendered to the global zone
+* Objects with a zone property are rendered to that zone, even if they
+ inherited that property
+* Host objects configured as an Agent are rendered to the master zone,
+ as Director configures them as a Command Execution Bridge
+* Agents with a zone property respect that setting
+* Every command is rendered to the global zone per default
+
diff --git a/doc/12-Handling-custom-variables.md b/doc/12-Handling-custom-variables.md
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+<a id="Handling-custom-variables"></a>Working with custom variables
+===================================================================
+
+Icinga Director allows you to work with custom variables in a very
+powerful way. It implements the concept of `Data fields`. If you want
+your users to be able to fill specific custom variables, you need to
+add corresponding `fields` to
+
+Examples
+--------
+* Add fields for existing commands
+* Allow to fill an [array of interfaces](14-Fields-example-interfaces-array.md)
+
diff --git a/doc/14-Fields-example-interfaces-array.md b/doc/14-Fields-example-interfaces-array.md
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+<a id="Fields-example-interfaces-array"></a>Working with fields - interfaces array example
+==============================================
+
+This example wants to show you how to make use of the `Array` data type
+when creating fields for custom variables. First, please got to the `Dashboard`
+and choose the `Define data fields` dashlet:
+
+![Dashboard - Define data fields](screenshot/director/14_fields-for-interfaces/141_define_datafields.png)
+
+Then create a new data field and select `Array` as its data type:
+
+![Define data field - Array](screenshot/director/14_fields-for-interfaces/142_add_datafield.png)
+
+Then create a new `Host template` (or use an existing one):
+
+![Define host template](screenshot/director/14_fields-for-interfaces/143_add_host_template.png)
+
+Now add your formerly created data field to your template:
+
+![Add field to template](screenshot/director/14_fields-for-interfaces/144_add_template_field.png)
+
+That's it, now you are ready to create your first corresponding host. Once
+you add your formerly created template, a new form field for your custom
+variable will show up:
+
+![Create host with given field](screenshot/director/14_fields-for-interfaces/145_create_host.png)
+
+Have a look at the config preview, it will show you how your `Array`-based
+custom variable will look like once deployed:
+
+![Host config preview with Array](screenshot/director/14_fields-for-interfaces/146_config_preview.png)
diff --git a/doc/15-Service-apply-for-example.md b/doc/15-Service-apply-for-example.md
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+<a id="Service-apply-for-example"></a>Working with Apply for rules - tcp ports example
+==============================================
+
+This example wants to show you how to make use of `Apply For` rule for services.
+
+First you need to define a `tcp_ports` data field of type `Array` assigned to a `Host Template`.
+Refer to [Working with fields](14-Fields-example-interfaces-array.md) section to setup a data field.
+You also need to define a `tcp_port` data field of type `String`, we will associate it to a
+`Service Template` later.
+
+Then, please go to the `Dashboard` and choose the `Monitored services` dashlet:
+
+![Dashboard - Monitored services](screenshot/director/15_apply-for-services/151_monitored_services.png)
+
+Then create a new `Service template` with check command `tcp`:
+
+![Define service template - tcp](screenshot/director/15_apply-for-services/152_add_service_template.png)
+
+Then associate the data field `tcp_port` to this `Service template`:
+
+![Associate field to service template - tcp_port](screenshot/director/15_apply-for-services/153_add_service_template_field.png)
+
+Then create a new `apply-rule` for the `Service template`:
+
+![Define apply rule](screenshot/director/15_apply-for-services/154_create_apply_rule.png)
+
+Now define the `Apply For` property, select the previously defined field `tcp_ports` associated to
+the host template. `Apply For` rule define a variable `config` that can be used as `$config$`, it
+corresponds to the item of the array it will iterate on.
+
+Set the `Tcp port` property to `$config$`:
+
+![Add field to template](screenshot/director/15_apply-for-services/155_configure_apply_for.png)
+
+(Side note: if you can't see your `tcp_ports` property in `Apply For` dropdown, try to create one
+host with a non-empty `tcp_ports` value.)
+
+That's it, now all your hosts defining a `tcp_ports` variable will be assigned the `Tcp Check`
+service.
+
+Have a look at the config preview, it will show you how `Apply For` services will look like once
+deployed:
+
+![Host config preview with Array](screenshot/director/15_apply-for-services/156_config_preview.png)
diff --git a/doc/16-Fields-example-SNMP.md b/doc/16-Fields-example-SNMP.md
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+<a id="Fields-example-SNMP"></a>Data Fields example: SNMP
+=========================
+
+Ever wondered how to provide an easy to use SNMP configuration to your users?
+That's what we're going to show in this example. Once completed, all your Hosts
+inheriting a specific (or your "default") Host Template will provide an optional
+`SNMP version` field.
+
+In case you choose no version, nothing special will happen. Otherwise, the host
+offers additional fields depending on the chosen version. `Community String` for
+`SNMPv1` and `SNMPv2c`, and five other fields ranging from `Authentication User`
+to `Auth` and `Priv` types and keys for `SNMPv3`.
+
+Your services should now be applied not only based on various Host properties
+like `Device Type`, `Application`, `Customer` or similar - but also based on
+the fact whether credentials have been given or not.
+
+
+Prepare required Data Fields
+----------------------------
+
+As we already have learned, `Fields` are what allows us to define which custom
+variables can or should be defined following which rules. We want SNMP version
+to be a drop-down, and that's why we first define a `Data List`, followed by
+a `Data Field` using that list:
+
+### Create a new Data List
+
+![Create a new Data List](screenshot/director/16_fields_snmp/161_snmp_versions_create_list.png)
+
+### Fill the new list with SNMP versions
+
+![Fill the new list with SNMP versions](screenshot/director/16_fields_snmp/162_snmp_versions_fill_list.png)
+
+### Create a corresponding Data Field
+
+![Create a Data Field for SNMP Versions](screenshot/director/16_fields_snmp/163_snmp_version_create_field.png)
+
+Next, please also create the following elements:
+
+* a list *SNMPv3 Auth Types* providing `MD5` and `SHA`
+* a list *SNMPv3 Priv Types* providing at least `AES` and `DES`
+* a `String` type field `snmp_community` labelled *SNMP Community*
+* a `String` type field `snmpv3_user` labelled *SNMPv3 User*
+* a `String` type field `snmpv3_auth` labelled *SNMPv3 Auth* (authentication key)
+* a `String` type field `snmpv3_priv` labelled *SNMPv3 Priv* (encryption key)
+* a `Data List` type field `snmpv3_authprot` labelled *SNMPv3 Auth Type*
+* a `Data List` type field `snmpv3_privprot` labelled *SNMPv3 Priv Type*
+
+Please do not forget to add meaningful descriptions, telling your users about
+in-house best practices.
+
+
+Assign your shiny new Fields to a Template
+------------------------------------------
+
+I'm using my default Host Template for this, but one might also choose to provide
+`SNMP version` on Network Devices. Should Network Device be a template? Or just
+an option in a `Device Type` field? You see, the possibilities are endless here.
+
+This screenshot shows part of my assigned Fields:
+
+![SNMP Fields on Default Host](screenshot/director/16_fields_snmp/164_snmp_fields_on_template.png)
+
+While I kept `SNMP Version` optional, all other fields are mandatory.
+
+
+Use your Template
+-----------------
+
+As soon as you choose your template, a new field is shown:
+
+![Choose SNMP version](screenshot/director/16_fields_snmp/165_host_snmp_choose.png)
+
+In case you change it to `SNMPv2c`, a `Community String` will be required:
+
+![Community String for SNMPv2c](screenshot/director/16_fields_snmp/166_host_snmp_v2c.png)
+
+Switch it to SNMPv3 to see completely different fields:
+
+![Auth and Priv properties for SNMPv3](screenshot/director/16_fields_snmp/167_host_snmp_v3.png)
+
+Once stored please check the rendered configuration. Switch the SNMP versions
+forth and back, and you should see that filtered fields will also remove the
+corresponding values from the object.
+
+
+Assign Services based on those properties
+-----------------------------------------
+
+You should design your Commands to use that set of properties. Change the example
+slightly to fit ITL Commands in case you're using those (snmpv3_*_type VS _alg).
+
+Your Cisco Health checks assigned to all:
+
+* routers or switches
+* manifactured by Cisco
+* with SNMP credentials, regardless of which version
+
+...might then look as follows:
+
+![Assign SNMP-based checks](screenshot/director/16_fields_snmp/168_assign_snmp_check.png)
+
+Have fun!
diff --git a/doc/24-Working-with-agents.md b/doc/24-Working-with-agents.md
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+<a id="Working-with-agents"></a>Working with Agents and Config Zones
+====================================================================
+
+Working with Icinga 2 Agents can be quite tricky, as each Agent needs
+its own Endpoint and Zone definition, correct parent, peering host and
+log settings. There may always be reasons for a completely custom-made
+configuration. However, I'd **strongly suggest** using the **Director-
+assisted** variant. It will save you a lot of headaches.
+
+
+Preparation
+-----------
+
+Agent settings are not available for modification directly on a host
+object. This requires you to create an "Icinga Agent" template. You
+could name it exactly like that; it's important to use meaningful names
+for your templates.
+
+![Create an Agent template](screenshot/director/24-agents/2401_agent_template.png)
+
+As long as you're not using Satellite nodes, a single Agent zone is all
+you need. Otherwise, you should create one Agent template per satellite
+zone. If you want to move an Agent to a specific zone, just assign it
+the correct template and you're all done.
+
+
+Usage
+-----
+
+Well, create a host, choose an Agent template, that's it:
+
+![Create an Agent-based host](screenshot/director/24-agents/2402_create_agent_based_host.png)
+
+Once you import the "Icinga Agent" template, you'll see a new "Agent" tab.
+It tries to assist you with the initial Agent setup by showing a sample
+config:
+
+![Agent instructions 1](screenshot/director/24-agents/2403_show_agent_instructions_1.png)
+
+![Agent instructions 2](screenshot/director/24-agents/2404_show_agent_instructions_2.png)
+
+The preview shows that the Icinga Director would deploy multiple objects
+for your newly created host:
+
+![Agent preview](screenshot/director/24-agents/2405_agent_preview.png)
+
+
+Create Agent-based services
+---------------------------
+
+Similar game for services that should run on your Agents. First, create a
+template with a meaningful name. Then, define that Services inheriting from
+this template should run on your Agents.
+
+![Agent-based service](screenshot/director/24-agents/2406_agent_based_service.png)
+
+Please do not set a cluster zone, as this would rarely be necessary.
+Agent-based services will always be deployed to their Agent's zone by
+default. All you need to do now for services that should be executed
+on your Agents is importing that template:
+
+![Agent-based load check](screenshot/director/24-agents/2407_create_agent_based_load_check.png)
+
+Config preview shows that everything works as expected:
+
+![Agent-based service preview](screenshot/director/24-agents/2409_agent_based_service_rendered_for_host.png)
+
+It's perfectly valid to assign services to host templates. Look how the
+generated config differs now:
+
+![Agent-based service assigned to host template](screenshot/director/24-agents/2410_agent_based_service_rendered_for_host_template.png)
+
+While services added to a host template are implicitly rendered as
+assign rules, you could of course also use your `Agent-based service`
+template in custom apply rules:
+
+![Agent-based service applied](screenshot/director/24-agents/2411_assign_agent_based_service.png)
+
+
+
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+<a id="baskets"></a> Importing Director Configurations with Baskets
+===================================================================
+
+Director already takes care of importing configurations for monitored objects. This same concept
+is also useful for Director's internal configuration. *Configuration Baskets* allow you to
+export, import, share and restore all or parts of your Icinga Director configuration, as many
+times as you like.
+
+Configuration baskets can save or restore the configurations for almost all internal Director
+objects, such as host groups, host templates, service sets, commands, notifications, sync
+rules, and much more. Because configuration baskets are supported directly in Director, all
+customizations included in your Director configuration are imported and exported properly.
+Each snapshot is a persistent, serialized (JSON) representation of all involved objects at that
+moment in time.
+
+Configuration baskets allow you to:
+- Back up (take a snapshot) and restore a Director configuration...
+ - To be able to restore in case of a misconfiguration you have deployed
+ - Copy specific objects as a static JSON file to migrate them from testing to production
+- Understand problems stemming from your changes with a diff between two configurations
+- Share configurations with others, either your entire environment or just specific parts such as commands
+- Choose only some elements to snapshot (using a *custom selection*) in a given category such as
+ a subset of Host Templates
+
+In addition, you can script some changes with the following command:
+```
+# icingacli director basket [options]
+```
+
+
+
+Using Configuration Baskets
+---------------------------
+
+To create or use a configuration basket, select **Icinga Director > Configuration Baskets**. At
+the top of the new panel are options to:
+- Make a completely new configuration basket with the *Create* action
+- Make a new basket by importing a previously saved JSON file with the *Upload* action
+
+At the bottom you will find the list of existing baskets and the number of snapshots in each.
+Selecting a basket will take you to the tabs for editing baskets and for taking snapshots.
+
+
+
+### Create a New Configuration Basket
+
+To create or edit a configuration basket, give it a name, and then select whether each of the
+configuration elements should appear in snapshots for that basket. The following choices
+are available for each element type:
+- **Ignore:** Do not put this element in snapshots (for instance, do not include sync rules).
+- **All of them:** Put all items of this element type in snapshots (for example, all host templates).
+- **Custom Selection:** Put only specified items of this element type in a snapshot. You will
+ have to manually mark each element on the element itself. For instance, if you have marked host
+ templates for custom selection, then you will have to go to each of the desired host templates
+ and select the action *Add to Basket*. This will cause those particular host templates to be
+ included in the next snapshot.
+
+
+
+### Uploading and Editing Saved Baskets
+
+If you or someone else has created a serialized JSON snapshot (see below), you can upload that
+basket from disk. Select the *Upload* action, give it a new name, use the file chooser to select
+the JSON file, and click on the *Upload* button. The new basket will appear in the list of
+configuration baskets.
+
+Editing a basket is simple: Click on its name in the list of configuration baskets to edit either
+the basket name or else whether and how each configuration type will appear in snapshots.
+
+
+
+### Managing Snapshots
+
+From the *Snapshots* panel you can create a new snapshot by clicking on the *Create Snapshot*
+button. The new snapshot should immediately appear in the table below, along with a short
+summary of the included types (e.g., *2x HostTemplate*) and the time. If no configuration types
+were selected for inclusion, the summary for that row will only show a dash instead of types.
+
+Clicking on a row summary will take you to the *Snapshot* panel for that snapshot, with the
+actions
+- **Show Basket:** Edit the basket that the snapshot was created from
+- **Restore:** Requests the target Director database; clicking on the *Restore* button will begin
+ the process of restoring from the snapshot. Configuration types that are not in the snapshot
+ will not be replaced.
+- **Download:** Saves the snapshot as a local JSON file.
+
+followed by its creation date, checksum, and a list of all configured types (or custom
+selections).
+
+For each item in that list, the keywords *unchanged* or *new* will appear to the right.
+Clicking on *new* will show the differences between the version in the snapshot and the
+current configuration.
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+<a id="CLI"></a>Director CLI
+============================
+
+Large parts of the Director's functionality are also available on your CLI.
+
+
+Manage Objects
+--------------
+
+Use `icingacli director <type> <action>` show, create modify or delete
+Icinga objects of a specific type:
+
+| Action | Description |
+|--------------|---------------------------------------|
+| `create` | Create a new object |
+| `delete` | Delete a specific object |
+| `exists` | Whether a specific object exists |
+| `set` | Modify an existing objects properties |
+| `show` | Show a specific object |
+
+
+Currently the following object types are available on CLI:
+
+* command
+* endpoint
+* host
+* hostgroup
+* notification
+* service
+* timeperiod
+* user
+* usergroup
+* zone
+
+
+### Create a new object
+
+Use this command to create a new Icinga object
+
+
+#### Usage
+
+`icingacli director <type> create [<name>] [options]`
+
+
+#### Options
+
+| Option | Description |
+|-------------------|-------------------------------------------------------|
+| `--<key> <value>` | Provide all properties as single command line options |
+| `--json` | Otherwise provide all options as a JSON string |
+
+
+#### Examples
+
+To create a new host you can provide all of its properties as command line
+parameters:
+
+```shell
+icingacli director host create localhost \
+ --imports generic-host \
+ --address 127.0.0.1 \
+ --vars.location 'My datacenter'
+```
+
+It would say:
+
+ Host 'localhost' has been created
+
+Providing structured data could become tricky that way. Therefore you are also
+allowed to provide JSON formatted properties:
+
+```shell
+icingacli director host create localhost \
+ --json '{ "address": "127.0.0.1", "vars": { "test": [ "one", "two" ] } }'
+```
+
+Passing JSON via STDIN is also possible:
+
+```shell
+icingacli director host create localhost --json < my-host.json
+```
+
+
+### Delete a specific object
+
+Use this command to delete a single Icinga object. Just run
+
+ icingacli director <type> delete <name>
+
+That's it. To delete the host created before, this would read
+
+ icingacli director host delete localhost
+
+It will tell you whether your command succeeded:
+
+ Host 'localhost' has been deleted
+
+
+### Whether a specific object exists
+
+Use this command to find out whether a single Icinga object exists. Just
+run:
+
+ icingacli director <type> exists <name>
+
+So if you run...
+
+ icingacli director host exists localhost
+
+...it will either tell you ...
+
+ Host 'localhost' exists
+
+...or:
+
+ Host 'localhost' does not exist
+
+When executed from custom scripts you could also just check the exit code,
+`0` means that the object exists, `1` that it doesn't.
+
+
+### Modify an existing objects properties
+
+Use this command to modify specific properties of an existing Icinga object.
+
+
+#### Usage
+
+ icingacli director <type> set <name> [options]
+
+
+#### Options
+
+| Option | Description |
+|----------------------------|-------------------------------------------------------|
+| `--<key> <value>` | Provide all properties as single command line options |
+| `--append-<key> <value>` | Appends to array values, like `imports`, |
+| | `groups` or `vars.system_owners` |
+| `--remove-<key> [<value>]` | Remove a specific property, eventually only |
+| | when matching `value`. In case the property is an |
+| | array it will remove just `value` when given |
+| `--json` | Otherwise provide all options as a JSON string |
+| `--replace` | Replace all object properties with the given ones |
+| `--auto-create` | Create the object in case it does not exist |
+| `--allow-overrides` | Set variable overrides for virtual Services |
+
+
+#### Examples
+
+```shell
+icingacli director host set localhost \
+ --address 127.0.0.2 \
+ --vars.location 'Somewhere else'
+```
+
+It will either tell you
+
+ Host 'localhost' has been modified
+
+or, when for example issued immediately a second time:
+
+ Host 'localhost' has not been modified
+
+Like create, this also allows you to provide JSON-formatted properties:
+
+```shell
+icingacli director host set localhost --json '{ "address": "127.0.0.2" }'
+```
+
+This command will fail in case the specified object does not exist. This is
+when the `--auto-create` parameter comes in handy. Command output will tell
+you whether an object has either been created or (not) modified.
+
+With `set` you only set the specified properties and do not touch the other
+ones. You could also want to completely override an object, purging all other
+eventually existing and unspecified parameters. Please use `--replace` if this
+is the desired behaviour.
+
+
+### Show a specific object
+
+Use this command to show single objects rendered as Icinga 2 config or
+in JSON format.
+
+
+#### Usage
+
+`icingacli director <type> show <name> [options]`
+
+
+#### Options
+
+| Option | Description |
+|-------------------|------------------------------------------------------|
+| `--resolved` | Resolve all inherited properties and show a flat |
+| | object |
+| `--json` | Use JSON format |
+| `--no-pretty` | JSON is pretty-printed per default (for PHP >= 5.4) |
+| | Use this flag to enforce unformatted JSON |
+| `--no-defaults` | Per default JSON output skips null or default values |
+| | With this flag you will get all properties |
+| `--with-services` | For hosts only, also shows attached services |
+
+### Clone an existing object
+
+Use this command to clone a specific object.
+
+#### Usage
+
+`icingacli director <type> clone <name> --from <original> [options]`
+
+#### Options
+
+| Option | Description |
+|---------------------|-----------------------------------------------------|
+| `--from <original>` | The name of the object you want to clone |
+| `--<key> <value>` | Override specific properties while cloning |
+| `--replace` | In case an object <name> already exists replace it |
+| | with the clone |
+| `--flat` | Do no keep inherited properties but create a flat |
+| | object with all resolved/inherited properties |
+
+#### Examples
+
+```shell
+icingacli director host clone localhost2 --from localhost
+```
+
+```shell
+icingacli director host clone localhost3 --from localhost --address 127.0.0.3
+```
+
+
+### Other interesting tasks
+
+
+#### Rename objects
+
+There is no rename command, but a simple `set` can easily accomplish this task:
+
+ icingacli director host set localhost --object_name localhost2
+
+Please note that it is usually absolutely no problem to rename objects with
+the Director. Even renaming something essential as a template like the famous
+`generic-host` will not cause any trouble. At least not unless you have other
+components outside your Director depending on that template.
+
+
+#### Disable an object
+
+Objects can be disabled. That way they will still exist in your Director DB,
+but they will not be part of your next deployment. Toggling the `disabled`
+property is all you need:
+
+ icingacli director host set localhost --disabled
+
+Valid values for booleans are `y`, `n`, `1` and `0`. So to re-enable an object
+you could use:
+
+ icingacli director host set localhost --disabled n
+
+
+#### Working with booleans
+
+As we learned before, `y`, `n`, `1` and `0` are valid values for booleans. But
+custom variables have no data type. And even if there is such, you could always
+want to change or override this from CLI. So you usually need to provide booleans
+in JSON format in case you need them in a custom variable.
+
+There is however one exception from this rule. CLI parameters without a given
+value are handled as boolean flags by the Icinga Web 2 CLI. That explains why
+the example disabling an object worked without passing `y` or `1`. You could
+use this also to set a custom variable to boolean `true`:
+
+ icingacli director host set localhost --vars.some_boolean
+
+Want to change it to false? No chance this way, you need to pass JSON:
+
+ icingacli director host set localhost --json '{ "vars.some_boolean": false }'
+
+This example shows the dot-notation to set a specific custom variable. If we
+have had used `{ "vars": { "some_boolean": false } }`, all other custom vars
+on this object would have been removed.
+
+
+#### Change object types
+
+The Icinga Director distincts between the following object types:
+
+| Type | Description |
+|-------------------|-------------------------------------------------------------|
+| `object` | The default object type. A host, a command and similar |
+| `template` | An Icinga template |
+| `apply` | An apply rule. This allows for assign rules |
+| `external_object` | An external object. Can be referenced and used, will not be |
+| | deployed |
+
+Example for creating a host template:
+
+```sh
+icingacli director host create 'Some template' \
+ --object_type template \
+ --check_command hostalive
+```
+
+Please take a lot of care when modifying object types, you should not do so for
+a good reason. The CLI allows you to issue operations that are not allowed in the
+web frontend. Do not use this unless you really understand its implications. And
+remember, with great power comes great responsibility.
+
+
+Import/Export Director Objects
+------------------------------
+
+Some objects are not directly related to Icinga Objects but used by the Director
+to manage them. To make it easier for administrators to for example pre-fill an
+empty Director Instance with Import Sources and Sync Rules, related import/export
+commands come in handy.
+
+Use `icingacli director export <type> [options]` to export objects of a specific
+type:
+
+| Type | Description |
+|-----------------------|-------------------------------------------------|
+| `datafields` | Export all DataField definitions |
+| `datalists` | Export all DataList definitions |
+| `hosttemplatechoices` | Export all IcingaTemplateChoiceHost definitions |
+| `importsources` | Export all ImportSource definitions |
+| `jobs` | Export all Job definitions |
+| `syncrules` | Export all SyncRule definitions |
+
+#### Options
+
+| Option | Description |
+|---------------|------------------------------------------------------|
+| `--no-pretty` | JSON is pretty-printed per default. Use this flag to |
+| | enforce unformatted JSON |
+
+Use `icingacli director import <type> < exported.json` to import objects of a
+specific type:
+
+| Type | Description |
+|-----------------------|-------------------------------------------------|
+| `importsources` | Import ImportSource definitions from STDIN |
+| `syncrules` | Import SyncRule definitions from STDIN |
+
+
+This feature is available since v1.5.0.
+
+
+Director Configuration Basket
+-----------------------------
+
+A basket contains a set of Director Configuration objects (like Templates,
+Commands, Import/Sync definitions - but not single Hosts or Services). This
+CLI command allows you to integrate them into your very own workflows
+
+## Available Actions
+
+| Action | Description |
+|------------|---------------------------------------------------|
+| `dump` | JSON-dump for objects related to the given Basket |
+| `list` | List configured Baskets |
+| `restore` | Restore a Basket from JSON dump provided on STDIN |
+| `snapshot` | Take a snapshot for the given Basket |
+
+### Options
+
+| Option | Description |
+|----------|------------------------------------------------------|
+| `--name` | `dump` and `snapshot` require a specific object name |
+
+Use `icingacli director basket restore < exported-basket.json` to restore objects
+from a specific basket. Take a snapshot or a backup first to be on the safe side.
+
+This feature is available since v1.6.0.
+
+
+Health Check Plugin
+-------------------
+
+You can use the Director CLI as an Icinga CheckPlugin and monitor your Director
+Health. This will run all or just one of the following test suites:
+
+| Name | Description |
+|--------------|-------------------------------------------------------------------|
+| `config` | Configuration, Schema, Migrations |
+| `sync` | All configured Sync Rules (pending changes are not a problem) |
+| `import` | All configured Import Sources (pending changes are not a problem) |
+| `jobs` | All configured Jobs (ignores disabled ones) |
+| `deployment` | Deployment Endpoint, last deployment outcome |
+
+#### Usage
+
+`icingacli director health check [options]`
+
+#### Options
+
+| Option | Description |
+|------------------|---------------------------------------|
+| `--check <name>` | Run only a specific test suite |
+| `--<db> <name>` | Use a specific Icinga Web DB resource |
+
+#### Examples
+
+```shell
+icingacli director health check
+```
+
+Example for running a check only for the configuration:
+
+```shell
+icingacli director health check --check config
+```
+
+Sample output:
+
+```
+Director configuration: 5 tests OK
+[OK] Database resource 'Director DB' has been specified'
+[OK] Make sure the DB schema exists
+[OK] There are no pending schema migrations
+[OK] Deployment endpoint is 'icinga.example.com'
+[OK] There is a single un-deployed change
+```
+
+
+Kickstart and schema handling
+-----------------------------
+
+The `kickstart` and the `migration` command are handled in the [automation section](03-Automation.md),
+so they are skipped here.
+
+
+Configuration handling
+----------------------
+
+### Render your configuration
+
+The Director distincts between rendering and deploying your configuration.
+Rendering means that Icinga 2 config will be pre-rendered and stored to the
+Director DB. Nothing bad happens if you decide to render the current config
+thousands of times in a loop. In case a config with the same checksum already
+exists, it will store - nothing.
+
+You can trigger config rendering by running
+
+```shell
+icingacli director config render
+```
+
+In case a new config has been created, it will tell you so:
+```
+New config with checksum b330febd0820493fb12921ad8f5ea42102a5c871 has been generated
+```
+
+Run it once again, and you'll see that the output changes:
+```
+Config with checksum b330febd0820493fb12921ad8f5ea42102a5c871 already exists
+```
+
+
+### Config deployment
+
+#### Usage
+
+`icingacli director config deploy [options]`
+
+#### Options
+
+| Option | Description |
+|----------------------------|------------------------------------------------------------------|
+| `--checksum <checksum>` | Optionally deploy a specific configuration |
+| `--force` | Force a deployment, even when the configuration hasn't changed |
+| `--wait <seconds>` | Optionally wait until Icinga completed it's restart |
+| `--grace-period <seconds>` | Do not deploy if a deployment took place less than <seconds> ago |
+
+#### Examples
+
+You do not need to explicitly render your config before deploying it to your
+Icinga 2 master node. Just trigger a deployment, it will re-render the current
+config:
+
+```shell
+icingacli director config deploy
+```
+
+The output tells you which config has been shipped:
+
+```
+Config 'b330febd0820493fb12921ad8f5ea42102a5c871' has been deployed
+```
+
+Director tries to avoid needless deployments, so in case you immediately deploy
+again, the output changes:
+```
+Config matches active stage, nothing to do
+```
+
+You can override this by adding the `--force` parameter. It will then tell you:
+
+```
+Config matches active stage, deploying anyway
+```
+
+In case you want to do not want `deploy` to waste time to re-render your
+config or in case you decide to re-deploy a specific, eventually older config
+version the `deploy` command allows you to provide a specific checksum:
+
+```shell
+icingacli director config deploy --checksum b330febd0820493fb12921ad8f5ea42102a5c871
+```
+
+When using `icingacli` deployments in an automated way, and want to avoid fast
+consecutive deployments, you can provide a grace period:
+
+```shell
+icingacli director config deploy --grace-period 300
+```
+
+### Deployments status
+In case you want to fetch the information about the deployments status,
+you can call the following CLI command:
+```shell
+icingacli director config deploymentstatus
+```
+```json
+{
+ "active_configuration": {
+ "stage_name": "5c65cae0-4f1b-47b4-a890-766c82681622",
+ "config": "617b9cbad9e141cfc3f4cb636ec684bd60073be1",
+ "activity": "4f7bc6600dd50a989f22f82d3513e561ef333363"
+ }
+}
+```
+In case there is no active stage name related to the Director, active_configuration
+is set to null.
+
+Another possibility is to pass a list of checksums to fetch the status of
+specific deployments and (activity log) activities.
+Following, you can see an example of how to do it:
+```shell
+icingacli director config deploymentstatus \
+ --configs 617b9cbad9e141cfc3f4cb636ec684bd60073be1 \
+ --activities 4f7bc6600dd50a989f22f82d3513e561ef333363
+```
+```json
+{
+ "active_configuration": {
+ "stage_name": "5c65cae0-4f1b-47b4-a890-766c82681622",
+ "config": "617b9cbad9e141cfc3f4cb636ec684bd60073be1",
+ "activity": "4f7bc6600dd50a989f22f82d3513e561ef333363"
+ },
+ "configs": {
+ "617b9cbad9e141cfc3f4cb636ec684bd60073be1": "active"
+ },
+ "activities": {
+ "4f7bc6600dd50a989f22f82d3513e561ef333363": "active"
+ }
+}
+```
+
+You can also decide to access directly to a value inside the result JSON by
+using the `--key` param:
+```shell
+icingacli director config deploymentstatus \
+ --configs 617b9cbad9e141cfc3f4cb636ec684bd60073be1 \
+ --activities 4f7bc6600dd50a989f22f82d3513e561ef333363 \
+ --key active_configuration.config
+```
+```
+617b9cbad9e141cfc3f4cb636ec684bd60073be1
+```
+
+
+
+### Cronjob usage
+
+You could decide to pre-render your config in the background quite often. As of
+this writing this has one nice advantage. It allows the GUI to find out whether
+a bunch of changes still results into the very same config.
+only one
+
+
+Run sync and import jobs
+------------------------
+
+### Import Sources
+
+#### List available Import Sources
+
+This shows a table with your defined Import Sources, their IDs and
+current state. As triggering Imports requires an ID, this is where you
+can look up the desired ID.
+
+`icingacli director importsource list`
+
+#### Check a given Import Source for changes
+
+This command fetches data from the given Import Source and compares it
+to the most recently imported data.
+
+`icingacli director importsource check --id <id>`
+
+##### Options
+
+| Option | Description |
+|---------------|---------------------------------------------------------|
+| `--id <id>` | An Import Source ID. Use the list command to figure out |
+| `--benchmark` | Show timing and memory usage details |
+
+#### Fetch data from a given Import Source
+
+This command fetches data from the given Import Source and outputs them
+as plain JSON
+
+`icingacli director importsource fetch --id <id>`
+
+##### Options
+
+| Option | Description |
+|---------------|---------------------------------------------------------|
+| `--id <id>` | An Import Source ID. Use the list command to figure out |
+| `--benchmark` | Show timing and memory usage details |
+
+#### Trigger an Import Run for a given Import Source
+
+This command fetches data from the given Import Source and stores it to
+the Director DB, so that the next related Sync Rule run can work with
+fresh data. In case data didn't change, nothing is going to be stored.
+
+`icingacli director importsource run --id <id>`
+
+##### Options
+
+| Option | Description |
+|---------------|---------------------------------------------------------|
+| `--id <id>` | An Import Source ID. Use the list command to figure out |
+| `--benchmark` | Show timing and memory usage details |
+
+### Sync Rules
+
+#### List defined Sync Rules
+
+This shows a table with your defined Sync Rules, their IDs and current
+state. As triggering a Sync requires an ID, this is where you can look
+up the desired ID.
+
+`icingacli director syncrule list`
+
+#### Check a given Sync Rule for changes
+
+This command runs a complete Sync in memory but doesn't persist eventual
+changes.
+
+`icingacli director syncrule check --id <id>`
+
+##### Options
+
+| Option | Description |
+|---------------|----------------------------------------------------|
+| `--id <id>` | A Sync Rule ID. Use the list command to figure out |
+| `--benchmark` | Show timing and memory usage details |
+
+#### Trigger a Sync Run for a given Sync Rule
+
+This command builds new objects according your Sync Rule, compares them
+with existing ones and persists eventual changes.
+
+`icingacli director syncrule run --id <id>`
+
+##### Options
+
+| Option | Description |
+|---------------|----------------------------------------------------|
+| `--id <id>` | A Sync Rule ID. Use the list command to figure out |
+| `--benchmark` | Show timing and memory usage details |
+
+
+Database housekeeping
+---------------------
+
+Your database may grow over time and ask for various housekeeping tasks. You
+can usually store a lot of data in your Director DB before you would even
+notice a performance impact.
+
+Still, we started to prepare some tasks that assist with removing useless
+garbage from your DB. You can show available tasks with:
+
+ icingacli director housekeeping tasks
+
+The output might look as follows:
+
+```
+ Housekeeping task (name) | Count
+-----------------------------------------------------------|-------
+ Undeployed configurations (oldUndeployedConfigs) | 3
+ Unused rendered files (unusedFiles) | 0
+ Unlinked imported row sets (unlinkedImportedRowSets) | 0
+ Unlinked imported rows (unlinkedImportedRows) | 0
+ Unlinked imported properties (unlinkedImportedProperties) | 0
+```
+
+You could run a specific task with
+
+ icingacli director housekeeping run <taskName>
+
+...like in:
+
+ icingacli director housekeeping run unlinkedImportedRows
+
+Or you could also run all of them, that's the preferred way of doing this:
+
+ icingacli director housekeeping run ALL
+
+Please note that some tasks once issued create work for other tasks, as
+lost imported rows might appear once you remove lost row sets. So `ALL`
+is usually the best choice as it runs all of them in the best order.
diff --git a/doc/70-Import-and-Sync.md b/doc/70-Import-and-Sync.md
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+<a id="Import-and-Sync"></a>Import and Synchronization
+======================================================
+
+Icinga Director offers very powerful mechanisms when it comes to fetching data
+from external data sources.
+
+The following examples should give you a quick idea of what you might want to
+use this feature for. Please note that Import Data Sources are implemented as
+hooks in Director. This means that it is absolutely possible and probably very
+easy to create custom data sources for whatever kind of data you have. And you
+do not need to modify the Director source code for this, you can ship your very
+own importer in your very own Icinga Web 2 module.
+
+Examples
+--------
+
+### Import Servers from MS Active Directory
+
+#### Create a new import source
+
+Importing data from LDAP sources is pretty easy. We use MS Active Directory
+as an example source:
+
+![Import source](screenshot/director/08_import-and-sync/081_director_import_source.png)
+
+You must formerly have configured a corresponding LDAP resource in your Icinga Web.
+Then you choose your preferred object class, you might add custom filters, a search
+base should always be set.
+
+The only tricky part here are the chosen Properties. You must know them and you
+are required to fill them in, no way around this right now. Also please choose one
+column as your key column.
+
+In case you want to avoid trouble please make this the column that corresponds to
+your desired object name for the objects you are going to import. Rows duplicating
+this property will be considered erroneous, the Import would fail.
+
+#### Property modifiers
+
+Data sources like SQL databases provide very powerful modifiers themselves. With a
+handcrafted query you can solve lots of data conversion problems. Sometimes this is
+not possible, and some sources (like LDAP) do not even have such features.
+
+This is where property modifiers jump in to the rescue. Your computer names are
+uppercase and you hate this? Use the lowercase modifier:
+
+![Lowercase modifier](screenshot/director/08_import-and-sync/082_director_import_modifier_lowercase.png)
+
+You want to have the object SID as a custom variable, but the data is stored
+binary in your AD? There is a dedicated modifier:
+
+![SID modifier](screenshot/director/08_import-and-sync/083_director_import_modifier_sid.png)
+
+You do not agree with the way Microsoft represents its version numbers? Regular
+expressions are able to fix everything:
+
+![Regular expression modifier](screenshot/director/08_import-and-sync/084_director_import_modifier_regex.png)
+
+#### Preview
+
+A quick look at the preview confirms that we reached a good point, that's the data
+we want:
+
+![Import preview](screenshot/director/08_import-and-sync/085_director_import_preview.png)
+
+#### Synchronization
+
+The Import itself just fetches raw data, it does not yet try to modify any of your
+Icinga objects. That's what the Sync rules have been designed for. This distinction
+has a lot of advantages when it goes to automatic scheduling for various import and
+sync jobs.
+
+When creating a Synchronization rule, you must decide which Icinga objects you want
+to work with. You could decide to use the same import source in various rules with
+different filters and properties.
+
+![Synchronization rule](screenshot/director/08_import-and-sync/086_director_sync_rule_ad_hosts.png)
+
+For every property you must decide whether and how it should be synchronized. You
+can also define custom expressions, combine multiple source fields, set custom
+properties based on custom conditions and so on.
+
+![Synchronization properties](screenshot/director/08_import-and-sync/087_director_sync_properties_ad_host.png)
+
+Now you are all done and ready to a) launch the Import and b) trigger your synchronization
+run.
+
+
diff --git a/doc/70-REST-API.md b/doc/70-REST-API.md
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+<a id="REST-API"></a>The Icinga Director REST API
+=================================================
+
+Introduction
+------------
+
+Icinga Director has been designed with a REST API in mind. Most URLs you
+can access with your browser will also act as valid REST url endpoints.
+
+Base Headers
+------------
+All your requests MUST have a valid accept header. The only acceptable
+variant right now is `application/json`, so please always append a header
+as follows to your requests:
+
+ Accept: application/json
+
+
+Authentication
+--------------
+Please use HTTP authentication and any valid Icinga Web 2 user, granted
+enough permissions to accomplish the desired actions. The restrictions
+and permissions that have been assigned to web users will also be enforced
+for API users. In addition, the permission `director/api` is required for
+any API access.
+
+Versioning
+----------
+
+There are no version strings so far in the Director URLs. We will try hard
+to not break compatibility with future versions. Sure, sooner or later we
+also might be forced to introduce some kind of versioning. But who knows?
+
+As a developer you can trust us to not remove any existing REST url or any
+provided property. However, you must always be ready to accept new properties.
+
+URL scheme and supported methods
+--------------------------------
+
+We support GET, POST, PUT and DELETE.
+
+| Method | Meaning |
+|--------|---------------------------------------------------------------------|
+| GET | Read / fetch data. Not allowed to run operations with the potential |
+| | to cause any harm |
+| POST | Trigger actions, create or modify objects. Can also be used to |
+| | partially modify objects |
+| PUT | Creates or replaces objects, cannot be used to modify single object |
+| | properties |
+| DELETE | Remove a specific object |
+
+TODO: more examples showing the difference between POST and PUT
+
+POST director/host
+ gives 201 on success
+GET director/host?name=hostname.example.com
+PUT director/host?name=hostname.example.com
+ gives 200 ok on success and 304 not modified on no change
+DELETE director/host?name=hostname.example.com
+ gives 200 on success
+
+
+First example request with CURL
+-------------------------------
+
+```sh
+curl -H 'Accept: application/json' \
+ -u 'username:password' \
+ 'https://icinga.example.com/icingaweb2/director/host?name=hostname.example.com'
+```
+
+### CURL helper script
+
+A script like the following makes it easy to play around with curl:
+
+```sh
+METHOD=$1
+URL=$2
+BODY="$3"
+USERNAME="demo"
+PASSWORD="***"
+test -z "$PASSWORD" || USERNAME="$USERNAME:$PASSWORD"
+
+test -z "$BODY" && curl -u "$USERNAME" \
+ -i https://icingaweb/icingaweb/$URL \
+ -H 'Accept: application/json' \
+ -X $METHOD
+
+test -z "$BODY" || curl -u "$USERNAME" \
+ -i https://icingaweb/icingaweb/$URL \
+ -H 'Accept: application/json' \
+ -X $METHOD \
+ -d "$BODY"
+
+echo
+```
+
+It can be used as follows:
+
+```sh
+director-curl GET director/host?name=localhost
+
+director-curl POST director/host '{"object_name": "host2", "... }'
+```
+
+
+Should I use HTTPS?
+-------------------
+
+Sure, absolutely, no doubt. There is no, absolutely no reason to NOT use
+HTTPS these days. Especially not for a configuration tool allowing you to
+configure check commands that are going to be executed on all your servers.
+
+Icinga Objects
+--------------
+
+### Special parameters
+
+| Parameter | Description |
+|----------------|-------------------------------------------------------------|
+| resolved | Resolve all inherited properties and show a flat object |
+| withNull | Retrieve default (null) properties also |
+| withServices | Show services attached to a host. `resolved` and `withNull` |
+| | are applied for services too |
+| allowOverrides | Set variable overrides for virtual Services |
+| showStacktrace | Returns the related stack trace, in case an error occurs |
+
+#### Resolve object properties
+
+In case you add the `resolved` parameter to your URL, all inherited object
+properties will be resolved. Such a URL could look as follows:
+
+ director/host?name=hostname.example.com&resolved
+
+
+#### Retrieve default (null) properties also
+
+Per default properties with `null` value are skipped when shipping a result.
+You can influence this behavior with the `properties` parameter. Just append
+`&withNull` to your URL:
+
+ director/host?name=hostname.example.com&withNull
+
+
+#### Fetch host with it's services
+
+This is what the `withServices` parameter exists:
+
+ director/host?name=hostname.example.com&withServices
+
+
+#### Retrieve only specific properties
+
+The `properties` parameter also allows you to specify a list of specific
+properties. In that case, only the given properties will be returned, even
+when they have no (`null`) value:
+
+ director/host?name=hostname.example.com&properties=object_name,address,vars
+
+
+#### Override vars for inherited/applied Services
+
+Enabling `allowOverrides` allows you to let Director figure out, whether your
+modified Custom Variables need to be applied to a specific individual Service,
+or whether setting Overrides at Host level is the way to go.
+
+ POST director/service?name=Uptime&host=hostname.example.com&allowOverrices
+
+```json
+{ "vars.uptime_warning": 300 }
+```
+
+In case `Uptime` is an Apply Rule, calling this without `allowOverrides` will
+trigger a 404 response. Please note that when modifying the Host object, the
+body for response 200 will show the Host object, as that's the one that has
+been modified.
+
+### Example
+
+GET director/host?name=pe2015.example.com
+```json
+{
+ "address": "127.0.0.3",
+ "check_command": null,
+ "check_interval": null,
+ "display_name": "pe2015 (example.com)",
+ "enable_active_checks": null,
+ "flapping_threshold": null,
+ "groups": [ ],
+ "imports": [
+ "generic-host"
+ ],
+ "retry_interval": null,
+ "vars": {
+ "facts": {
+ "aio_agent_build": "1.2.5",
+ "aio_agent_version": "1.2.5",
+ "architecture": "amd64",
+ "augeas": {
+ "version": "1.4.0"
+ },
+ ...
+}
+```
+
+director/host?name=pe2015.example.com&resolved
+```json
+{
+ "address": "127.0.0.3",
+ "check_command": "tom_ping",
+ "check_interval": "60",
+ "display_name": "pe2015 (example.com)",
+ "enable_active_checks": true,
+ "groups": [ ],
+ "imports": [
+ "generic-host"
+ ],
+ "retry_interval": "10",
+ "vars": {
+ "facts": {
+ "aio_agent_build": "1.2.5",
+ "aio_agent_version": "1.2.5",
+ "architecture": "amd64",
+ "augeas": {
+ "version": "1.4.0"
+ },
+ ...
+}
+```
+
+JSON is pretty-printed per default, at least for PHP >= 5.4
+
+Error handling
+--------------
+
+Director tries hard to return meaningful output and error codes:
+```
+HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request
+Server: Apache
+Content-Length: 46
+Connection: close
+Content-Type: application/json
+```
+
+```json
+{
+ "error": "Invalid JSON: Syntax error"
+}
+```
+
+Trigger actions
+---------------
+You can of course also use the API to trigger specific actions. Deploying the configuration is as simple as issueing:
+
+ POST director/config/deploy
+
+More
+----
+
+Currently we do not handle Last-Modified und ETag headers. This would involve some work, but could be a cool feature. Let us know your ideas!
+
+
+Sample scenario
+---------------
+
+Let's show you how the REST API works with a couple of practical examples:
+
+### Create a new host
+
+```
+POST director/host
+```
+
+```json
+{
+ "object_name": "apitest",
+ "object_type": "object",
+ "address": "127.0.0.1",
+ "vars": {
+ "location": "Berlin"
+ }
+}
+```
+#### Response
+```
+HTTP/1.1 201 Created
+Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2016 04:43:55 GMT
+Server: Apache
+Content-Length: 140
+Content-Type: application/json
+```
+
+```json
+{
+ "address": "127.0.0.1",
+ "object_name": "apitest",
+ "object_type": "object",
+ "vars": {
+ "location": "Berlin"
+ }
+}
+```
+
+The most important part of the response is the response code: `201`, a resource has been created. Just for fun, let's fire the same request again. The answer obviously changes:
+
+```
+HTTP/1.1 500 Internal Server Error
+Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2016 04:45:04 GMT
+Server: Apache
+Content-Length: 60
+Connection: close
+Content-Type: application/json
+```
+
+```json
+{
+ "error": "Trying to recreate icinga_host (apitest)"
+}
+```
+
+So, let's update this host. To work with existing objects, you must ship their `name` in the URL:
+
+ POST director/host?name=apitest
+
+```json
+{
+ "object_name": "apitest",
+ "object_type": "object",
+ "address": "127.0.0.1",
+ "vars": {
+ "location": "Berlin"
+ }
+}
+```
+
+Same body, so no change:
+```
+HTTP/1.1 304 Not Modified
+Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2016 04:45:33 GMT
+Server: Apache
+```
+
+So let's now try to really change something:
+
+ POST director/host?name=apitest
+
+```json
+{"address": "127.0.0.2", "vars.event": "Icinga CAMP" }
+```
+
+We get status `200`, changes have been applied:
+
+```
+HTTP/1.1 200 OK
+Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2016 04:46:25 GMT
+Server: Apache
+Content-Length: 172
+Content-Type: application/json
+```
+
+```json
+{
+ "address": "127.0.0.2",
+ "object_name": "apitest",
+ "object_type": "object",
+ "vars": {
+ "location": "Berlin",
+ "event": "Icinga CAMP"
+ }
+}
+```
+
+The response always returns the full object on modification. This way you can immediately investigate the merged result. As you can see, `POST` requests only touch the parameters you passed - the rest remains untouched.
+
+One more example to prove this:
+
+```
+POST director/host?name=apitest
+```
+
+```json
+{"address": "127.0.0.2", "vars.event": "Icinga CAMP" }
+```
+
+No modification, you get a `304`. HTTP standards strongly discourage shipping a body in this case:
+```
+HTTP/1.1 304 Not Modified
+Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2016 04:52:05 GMT
+Server: Apache
+```
+
+As you might have noted, we only changed single properties in the vars dictionary. Now lets override the whole dictionary:
+
+```
+POST director/host?name=apitest
+```
+
+```json
+{"address": "127.0.0.2", "vars": { "event": [ "Icinga", "Camp" ] } }
+```
+
+The response shows that this works as expected:
+
+```
+HTTP/1.1 200 OK
+Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2016 04:52:33 GMT
+Server: Apache
+Content-Length: 181
+Content-Type: application/json
+```
+
+```json
+{
+ "address": "127.0.0.2",
+ "object_name": "apitest",
+ "object_type": "object",
+ "vars": {
+ "event": [
+ "Icinga",
+ "Camp"
+ ]
+ }
+}
+```
+
+If merging properties is not what you want, `PUT` comes to the rescue:
+
+ PUT director/host?name=apitest
+
+```
+{ "vars": { "event": [ "Icinga", "Camp" ] }
+```
+
+All other properties vanished, all but name and type:
+```
+HTTP/1.1 200 OK
+Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2016 04:54:33 GMT
+Server: Apache
+Content-Length: 153
+Content-Type: application/json
+```
+
+```json
+{
+ "object_name": "apitest",
+ "object_type": "object",
+ "vars": {
+ "event": [
+ "Icinga",
+ "Camp"
+ ]
+ }
+}
+```
+
+Let's put "nothing":
+
+ PUT director/host?name=apitest
+
+```json
+{}
+```
+
+Works as expected:
+
+```
+HTTP/1.1 200 OK
+Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2016 04:57:35 GMT
+Server: Apache
+Content-Length: 62
+Content-Type: application/json
+```
+
+```json
+{
+ "object_name": "apitest",
+ "object_type": "object"
+}
+```
+
+Of course, `PUT` also supports `304`, you can check this by sending the same request again.
+
+Now let's try to cheat:
+
+ KILL director/host?name=apitest
+
+```
+HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request
+Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2016 04:54:07 GMT
+Server: Apache
+Content-Length: 43
+Connection: close
+Content-Type: application/json
+```
+
+```json
+{
+ "error": "Unsupported method KILL"
+}
+```
+
+Ok, no way. So let's use the correct method:
+
+ DELETE director/host?name=apitest
+
+```
+HTTP/1.1 200 OK
+Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2016 05:59:22 GMT
+Server: Apache
+Content-Length: 109
+Content-Type: application/json
+```
+
+```json
+{
+ "imports": [
+ "generic-host"
+ ],
+ "object_name": "apitest",
+ "object_type": "object"
+}
+```
+
+### Service Apply Rules
+
+Please note that Service Apply Rule names are not unique in Icinga 2. They are
+not real objects, they are creating other objects in a loop. This makes it
+impossible to distinct them by name. Therefore, a dedicated REST API endpoint
+`director/serviceapplyrules` ships all Service Apply Rules combined with their
+internal ID. This ID can then be used to modify or delete a Rule via
+`director/service`.
+
+### Deployment Status
+In case you want to fetch the information about the deployments status,
+you can call the following API:
+
+ GET director/config/deployment-status
+
+```
+HTTP/1.1 200 OK
+Date: Wed, 07 Oct 2020 13:14:33 GMT
+Server: Apache
+Content-Type: application/json
+```
+
+```json
+{
+ "active_configuration": {
+ "stage_name": "b191211d-05cb-4679-842b-c45170b96421",
+ "config": "617b9cbad9e141cfc3f4cb636ec684bd60073be1",
+ "activity": "028b3a19ca7457f5fc9dbb5e4ea527eaf61616a2"
+ }
+}
+```
+This throws a 500 in case Icinga isn't reachable.
+In case there is no active stage name related to the Director, active_configuration
+is set to null.
+
+Another possibility is to pass a list of checksums to fetch the status of
+specific deployments and (activity log) activities.
+Following, you can see an example of how to do it:
+
+ GET director/config/deployment-status?config_checksums=617b9cbad9e141cfc3f4cb636ec684bd60073be2,
+ 617b9cbad9e141cfc3f4cb636ec684bd60073be1&activity_log_checksums=617b9cbad9e141cfc3f4cb636ec684bd60073be1,
+ 028b3a19ca7457f5fc9dbb5e4ea527eaf61616a2
+
+```json
+{
+ "active_configuration": {
+ "stage_name": "b191211d-05cb-4679-842b-c45170b96421",
+ "config": "617b9cbad9e141cfc3f4cb636ec684bd60073be1",
+ "activity": "028b3a19ca7457f5fc9dbb5e4ea527eaf61616a2"
+ },
+ "configs": {
+ "617b9cbad9e141cfc3f4cb636ec684bd60073be2": "deployed",
+ "617b9cbad9e141cfc3f4cb636ec684bd60073be1": "active"
+ },
+ "activities": {
+ "617b9cbad9e141cfc3f4cb636ec684bd60073be1": "undeployed",
+ "028b3a19ca7457f5fc9dbb5e4ea527eaf61616a2": "active"
+ }
+}
+```
+The list of possible status is:
+* `active`: whether this configuration is currently active
+* `deployed`: whether this configuration has ever been deployed
+* `failed`: whether the deployment of this configuration has failed
+* `undeployed`: whether this configuration has been rendered, but not yet deployed
+* `unknown`: whether no configurations have been found for this checksum
+
+### Agent Tickets
+
+The Director is very helpful when it goes to manage your Icinga Agents. In
+case you want to fetch tickets through the API, please do as follows:
+
+ GET director/host/ticket?name=apitest
+
+```
+HTTP/1.1 200 OK
+Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2016 22:19:24 GMT
+Server: Apache
+Content-Length: 43
+Content-Type: application/json
+```
+
+```json
+"5de9883080e03278039bce57e4fbdbe8fd262c40"
+```
+
+Please expect an error in case the host does not exist or has not been
+configured to be an Icinga Agent.
+
+### Self Service API
+
+#### Theory of operation
+
+Icinga Director offers a Self Service API, allowing new Icinga nodes to register
+themselves. No credentials are required, authentication is based on API keys.
+There are two types of such keys:
+
+* Host Template API keys
+* Host Object API keys
+
+Template keys basically grant the permission to:
+
+* Create a new host based on that template
+* Specify name and address properties for that host
+
+This is a one-time operation and allows one to claim ownership of a specific host.
+Now, there are two possible scenarios:
+
+* The host already exists
+* The host is not known to Icinga Director
+
+In case the host already exists, Director will check whether it's API key matches
+the given one. [..]
+
+#### Request processing for Host registration
+
+A new node will `POST` to `self-service/register-host`, with two parameters in
+the URL:
+
+* `name`: it's desired object name, usually the FQDN
+* `key`: a valid Host Template API key
+
+In it's body it is allowed to specify a specific set of properties. At the time
+of this writing, these are:
+
+* `display_name`
+* `address`
+* `address6`
+
+Director will validate the `key` and load the corresponding *Host Template*. In
+case no such is found, the request is rejected. Then it checks whether a *Host*
+with the given `name` exists. In case it does, the request is rejected unless:
+
+* It inherits the loaded *Host Template*
+* It already has an API key
+
+If these conditions match, the request is processed. The following sketch roughly shows the decision tree (AFTER the key has been
+validated):
+
+```
+ +-----------------------------+
+ +--------------+ | * Validate given properties |
+ | Host exists? | -- NO --> | * Create new host object |-----------+
+ +--------------+ | * Return new Host API key | |
+ | +-----------------------------+ |
+ YES |
+ | |
+ v +-----------------------------+ |
+ +----------------------+ | * Validate given properties | |
+ | Host has an API key? | -- NO --> | * Apply eventual changes |----+
+ +----------------------+ | * Return new Host API key | |
+ | +-----------------------------+ |
+ YES |
+ | +-------------------+
+ v |
+ +--------------------+ v
+ | Reject the request | +---------------------+
+ +--------------------+ | Client persists the |
+ | new Host API key |
+ +---------------------+
+```
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+<a id="Self-Service-API"></a>Self Service API
+=============================================
+
+Introduction
+------------
+
+Icinga Director offers a Self Service API, allowing new Hosts running the Icinga
+Agent to register themselves in a secure way.
+
+### Windows Agents
+
+Windows Agents are the main target audience for this feature. It allows you to
+generate a single Powershell Script based on the [Icinga 2 Powershell Module](
+https://github.com/Icinga/icinga2-powershell-module
+). You can either use the same script for all of your Windows Hosts or generate
+different ones for different kind of systems.
+
+This installation script could then be shipped with your base images, invoked
+remotely via **PowerShell Remoting**, distributed as a module via **Group
+Policies** and/or triggered via **Run-Once** (AD Policies).
+
+### Linux Agents
+
+At the time of this writing, we do not ship a script with all the functionality
+you can find in the Windows Powershell script. Linux and Unix environments are
+mostly highly automated these days, and such a magic shell script is often not
+what people want.
+
+Still, you can also benefit from this feature by directly using our [Self Service
+REST API](70-REST-API.md). It should be easy to integrate it into
+the automation tool of your choice.
+
+Base Configuration
+------------------
+
+You have full control over the automation Script generated by the Icinga Director.
+Please got to the **Infrastructure Dashboard** and choose the **Self Service API**:
+
+![Infrastructure Dashboard - Self Service API](screenshot/director/74_self-service-api/7401-director_self-service-dashboard.png)
+
+This leads to the Self Service API Settings form. Most settings are self-explaining
+and come with detailled inline hints. The most important choice is whether the
+script should automatically install the Icinga Agent:
+
+![Settings - Choose installation source](screenshot/director/74_self-service-api/7402-director_self-service-choose-source.png)
+
+In case you opted for automated installation, more options will pop up:
+
+![Settings - Installer Details](screenshot/director/74_self-service-api/7403-director_self-service-settings.png)
diff --git a/doc/75-Background-Daemon.md b/doc/75-Background-Daemon.md
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+<a id="Background-Daemon"></a>Background-Daemon
+===============================================
+
+The Icinga Director Background Daemon is available (and mandatory) since v1.7.0.
+It is responsible for various background tasks, including fully automated Import,
+Sync & Config Deployment Tasks.
+
+Daemon Installation
+-------------------
+
+To run the Background Daemon, you need to tell `systemd` about your new service.
+First make sure that the system user `icingadirector` exists. In case it doesn't,
+please create one:
+
+```sh
+useradd -r -g icingaweb2 -d /var/lib/icingadirector -s /bin/false icingadirector
+install -d -o icingadirector -g icingaweb2 -m 0750 /var/lib/icingadirector
+```
+
+Then copy the provided Unit-File from our [contrib](../contrib/systemd/icinga-director.service)
+to `/etc/systemd/system`, enable and start the service:
+
+```sh
+MODULE_PATH=/usr/share/icingaweb2/modules/director
+cp "${MODULE_PATH}/contrib/systemd/icinga-director.service" /etc/systemd/system/
+systemctl daemon-reload
+```
+
+Now your system knows about the Icinga Director Daemon. You should make sure that
+it starts automatically each time your system boots:
+
+```sh
+systemctl enable icinga-director.service
+```
+
+Starting the Daemon
+-------------------
+
+You now can start the Background daemon like any other service on your Linux system:
+
+```sh
+systemctl start icinga-director.service
+```
+
+Stopping the Daemon
+-------------------
+
+You now can stop the Background daemon like any other service on your Linux system:
+
+```sh
+systemctl stop icinga-director.service
+```
+
+Getting rid of the old Job Daemon
+---------------------------------
+
+Before v1.7.0, Icinga Director shipped an optional Job Daemon. This one is no longer
+needed and should be removed from your system as follows:
+
+```sh
+systemctl stop director-jobs
+systemctl disable director-jobs
+rm /etc/systemd/system/director-jobs.service
+systemctl daemon-reload
+```
diff --git a/doc/79-Jobs.md b/doc/79-Jobs.md
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+<a id="Jobs"></a>Jobs
+=====================
+
+The [background daemon](75-Background-Daemon.md) is responsible for running
+Jobs accoring our schedule. Director allows you to schedule eventually long-
+running tasks so that they can run in the background.
+
+Currently this includes:
+
+* Import runs
+* Sync runs
+* Housekeeping tasks
+* Config rendering and deployment
+
+This component is internally provided as a Hook. This allows other Icinga
+Web 2 modules to benefit from the Job Runner by providing their very own Job
+implementations.
+
+Theory of operation
+-------------------
+
+Jobs are configured via the Web frontend. You can create multiple definitions
+for the very same Job. Every single job will run with a configurable interval.
+Please do not expect this to behave like a scheduler or a cron daemon. Jobs
+are currently not executed in parallel. Therefore if one job takes longer, it
+might have an influence on the scheduling of other jobs.
+
+Some of you might want actions like automated config deployment not to be
+executed all around the clock. That's why you have the possibility to assign
+time periods to your jobs. Choose an Icinga timeperiod, the job will only be
+executed within that period.
+
+Time periods
+------------
+
+Icinga time periods can get pretty complex. You configure them with Director,
+but until now it didn't have the necessity to "understand" them. This of course
+changed with Time Period support in our Job Runner. Director will try to fully
+"understand" periods in future, but right now it is only capable to interpret
+a limited subset of timeperiod range definitions.
diff --git a/doc/80-FAQ.md b/doc/80-FAQ.md
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+<a id="FAQ"></a>Frequently Asked Questions
+==========================================
+
+I got an exception...
+---------------------
+
+This section tries to summarize well known pitfalls and their solution.
+
+### Binary data corruption with ZF 1.12.6 and 1.12.17
+
+When deploying your first configuration, you might get this error:
+
+ Refusing to render the configuration, your DB layer corrupts
+ binary data. You might be affected by Zend Framework bug #655
+
+Zend Framework 1.12.16 and 1.12.17 silently [corrupt binary data](https://github.com/zendframework/zf1/issues/655).
+This has been [fixed](https://github.com/zendframework/zf1/pull/670) with
+[1.12.18](https://github.com/zendframework/zf1/releases/tag/release-1.12.18),
+please either upgrade or downgrade to an earlier version. Debian Stable currently
+ships 1.12.9, but as they backported the involved erraneous security bug their
+version has been affected too. In the meantime they also backported the fix for
+the fix, so Debian should no longer show this error.
+
+When you work on a RedHat-based distribution please follow
+[Bug 1328032](https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1328032). The new
+release reached Fedora EPEL 6 and EPEL 7, so this should no longer be an issue
+on related platforms.
+
+You could also manually fix this issue in `/usr/share/php/Zend/Db/Adapter/Pdo/Abstract.php`.
+Search for the `_quote` function and delete the line saying:
+
+```php
+$value = addcslashes($value, "\000\032");
+```
+
+Please note that doing so would fix all problems, but re-introduce a potential
+security issue affecting the MSSQL and Sqlite adapters.
+
+### Connection error when setting up the database
+
+When setting up and validating a database connection for Director in Icinga Web 2,
+the following error might occur:
+
+ SQLSTATE[HY000]: General error: 2014 Cannot execute queries while
+ other unbuffered queries are active.
+
+This happens with some PHP versions, we have not been able to figure out which ones
+and why. However, we found a workaround and and fixed this in Icinga Web 2. Please
+upgrade to the latest version, the issue should then be gone.
+
+You probably didn't notice this error before as in most environments the IDO for
+historical reasons isn't configured for UTF-8.
+
+Connection lost to DB while....
+-------------------------------
+
+In case you are creating large configs or handling huge imports with the Director
+it could happen that the default conservative max package size of your MySQL
+server bites you. Raise `max packet size` to a reasonable value, this willi
+usually fix this issue.
+
+Import succeeded but nothing happened
+-------------------------------------
+
+Import and Sync are different tasks, you need to `Run` both of them. This allows
+us to combine multiple import sources, even it if some of them are slow or failing
+from time to time. It's easy to oversee those links right now, we'll fix this soon.
+
+My Director doesn't look as good as on your screenshots
+-------------------------------------------------------
+
+There used to be a bug in older Icinga Web 2 versions that broke automagic cache
+invalidation. So when updating a module you might be forced to do SHIFT-Reload or
+similar in your browser. Please note that proxies in the way between you and
+Icinga Web 2 might currently lead to similar issues.
diff --git a/doc/82-Changelog.md b/doc/82-Changelog.md
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+<a id="Changelog"></a>Changelog
+===============================
+
+Please make sure to always read our [Upgrading](05-Upgrading.md) documentation
+before switching to a new version.
+
+v1.10.2
+-------
+
+This is a minor bugfix release, addressing some Sync-related issues: purge for
+objects with uppercase characters now works as expected, automated Sync jobs run
+again, and manually triggered Sync has been fixed on PostgreSQL.
+
+Some UI glitches have been addressed, and a few problems appearing only in
+certain conditions - related to Configuration Baskets, our Self Service REST API
+and the Activity Log.
+
+### Fixed issues
+* You can find issues and feature requests related to this release on our
+ [roadmap](https://github.com/Icinga/icingaweb2-module-director/milestone/31?closed=1)
+
+### UI
+* FEATURE: improve Service Set table layout (#2648)
+* FIX: modifying single time-period ranges had no effect (#2525)
+* FIX: activity log pagination is now on a single line (#2649)
+
+### Import and Sync
+* FIX: triggering Sync manually produced an error on PostgreSQL (#2636)
+* FIX: purge stopped working for objects with uppercase characters (#2627)
+* FIX: Notification Apply rule is now possible (wasn't since v1.8) (#2142, #2634)
+* FIX: nested property access with intermediate NULL values now gives NULL (#2474, #2584)
+* FIX: automated Sync jobs stopped working (#2633)
+
+### Configuration Baskets
+* FEATURE: more details shown in error messages related to invalid characters (#2646)
+* FIX: snapshots for Baskets containing Baskets failed since v1.10 (#2644)
+
+### REST API
+* FIX: Self Service API returned invalid JSON on PHP 8.1 (#2614)
+
+### Internals
+* FIX: issue with empty activity log, deprecate outdated method (#2630)
+
+v1.10.1
+-------
+
+This is a minor bugfix release, addressing issues with modifying services via
+the monitoring module, Sync problems and a copy and paste error in the DB schema,
+which caused problems for fresh installations since v1.10.
+
+Please note that a long-standing issue for our Sync Rules has been fixed: with
+"merge" policy, NULL properties have been ignored for quite some time. This has
+now been fixed. If in doubt, please **preview** your Sync Rules to make sure,
+that they behave as expected.
+
+This release brings a small schema migration, cleaning up invalid Sync history
+entries. If in doubt, please create a [database backup](05-Upgrading.md#backup-first) first.
+
+### Fixed issues
+* You can find issues and feature requests related to this release on our
+ [roadmap](https://github.com/Icinga/icingaweb2-module-director/milestone/30?closed=1)
+
+### Import and Sync
+* FIX: sync lower-cased all object names since v1.10 (#2608)
+* FIX: sync for Datalist entries has been fixed (#2618)
+* FIX: Sync now applied NULL values with merge policy (#2623)
+* FIX: Sync created Sync History entries for every preview (#2632)
+* FIX: "Purge" stopped working for Sync (#2627)
+
+### UI
+* FIX: "Modify" Services via the monitoring module (#2615, #2619)
+
+### Configuration Baskets
+* FIX: restore Import/Sync/Job when exported with v1.10 (#2620)
+* FIX: restoring Job with ImportSource or SyncRule (#2528)
+
+### Database Schema
+* FIX: new DB schema failed due to duplicate line in SQL statement (#2609)
+
+v1.10.0
+-------
+
+An advanced **Sync Preview** is one of the features I'd love to highlight in
+v1.10.0. We have been able to leverage our Configuration Branch support as
+an underlying technology for this:
+
+![Sync Preview - List](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/553008/191472888-33849b3e-9d96-4113-b960-92708769e90d.png)
+
+In case you have lots of changes, you can browse all of them - formerly this
+hasn't been possible. Also, this now allows you to inspect every single upcoming
+change before applying the Sync:
+
+![Sync Preview - Details](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/553008/191472900-1968691e-a758-4c99-99ce-059bc3689356.png)
+
+This has been possible based on the code we implemented to support the
+[Director Branches](https://icinga.com/docs/icinga-director-branches/latest/)
+module. In case you never heard about it,
+[here](https://icinga.com/blog/2022/07/21/releasing-icinga-director-branches/)
+you can find the related announcement.
+
+This release also contains a lot of related fixes and new Features. It is now
+possible to deal with **Service Sets** in Configuration Branches, the **commit
+remark** can be proposed with a merge request, and the Activity Log shows not
+only who has merged the change, but also the **original author**.
+
+Powerful new features have been implemented for those who love to orchestrate
+the Director from the outside. Please check our
+[CLI](https://github.com/Icinga/icingaweb2-module-director/blob/v1.10.0/doc/60-CLI.md)
+and [REST API](https://github.com/Icinga/icingaweb2-module-director/blob/v1.10.0/doc/70-REST-API.md)
+documentation for related details, especially look for --with-services (withServices)
+and --allow-overrides (allowOverrides).
+
+CLI now supports **JSON on STDIN**, REST API can request detailed stack traces
+in case an error occurs.
+
+### Breaking Changes
+* Module and system dependencies have been raised, [Upgrading](05-Upgrading.md)
+ and [Installation](02-Installation.md) documentations contain related details
+
+### Fixed issues
+* You can find issues and feature requests related to this release on our
+ [roadmap](https://github.com/Icinga/icingaweb2-module-director/milestone/27?closed=1)
+
+### User Interface
+* FIX: links from Service Previews (Icinga DSL) to templates (#2554)
+* FIX: daemon health visualization on systems w/o /proc filesystem (#2544)
+
+### Import and Sync
+* FIX: Sync now compares keys in a case-insensitive way (#2598, #2419, #1140)
+* FIX: Sync now preserves Self Service API keys in override mode (#2590)
+* FEATURE: clone a row for nested Dictionary/Hash entries (#2555)
+* FEATURE: Sync in "override" mode now preserves Self Service API keys (#2590)
+* FEATURE: split a row in multiple ones, based on a Dictionary (#2555)
+* FEATURE: it's now possible to sync to a configuration branch (#2552)
+* FEATURE: Sync preview now allows to navigate single changes (#2607)
+
+### Configuration Baskets
+* BREAKING: configuration baskets no longer contain originalId (#2549)
+* FEATURE: exporting/snapshot-logic has been centralized (#2549)
+
+### Configuration Branches
+* FIX: PostgreSQL now allows for the same object in multiple branches (#2605)
+* FEATURE: merge comments can now be proposed (#2604)
+* FEATURE: activity log now shows author and committer (#2606)
+
+### Integrations
+* FIX: Monitoring Hooks are no longer provided with disable Director UI (#2597)
+* FIX: cleanup for IcingaDbCube (#2484)
+
+### Kickstart
+* FIX: breaking change in ipl/html, affected setups with ro INI files (#2595)
+* FEATURE: better explanation for missing DSL bodies fetched from core (#2557)
+
+### REST API
+* FIX: addressing service templates by name has been fixed (#2487)
+* FIX: allow for object_name in body only (#2576)
+* FIX: notice on PHP 8.1 (#2575)
+* FEATURE: Stack traces can now be requested (#2570)
+* FEATURE: Hosts can now be exported with their services (#2568)
+* FEATURE: "magic" variable overrides are now supported (#2569)
+
+### CLI
+* FIX: config deploy doesn't try to wait in case of no deployment (#2522)
+* FIX: renderer now shows full service sets (#2550)
+* FEATURE: improved wording for deployment error messages (#2523)
+* FEATURE: JSON can now be shipped via STDIN (#1570)
+* FEATURE: improved readability for some error messages (#2567)
+* FEATURE: allows showing hosts with their services (#2565)
+* FEATURE: allow showing resolved Host services (#2571)
+* FEATURE: "magic" variable overrides are now supported (#2560)
+* FEATURE: error messages are now friendlier (#2567)
+* FEATURE: STDIN support for --json is now available (#1570)
+
+### Activity Log
+
+* FIX: deleted objects might have been missing related properties (#2559)
+
+### Deployment Log
+* FEATURE: visualization performance has been improved (#2551)
+
+### Internals
+
+* FEATURE: there is now a centralized Exporter implementation (#2549)
+
+1.9.1
+-----
+
+### Fixed issues
+* You can find issues and feature requests related to this release on our
+ [roadmap](https://github.com/Icinga/icingaweb2-module-director/milestone/28?closed=1)
+
+### User Interface
+* FIX: DataList-backed fields failed to validate (#2475)
+* FIX: No Host list limit when adding a single service globally (#2481)
+* FIX: Cleared activity log caused exception (#2505, #2506)
+* FEATURE: Icinga Web 2.10 dark mode support (#2433)
+
+### Configuration Baskets
+* FIX: failed to export Baskets with Service Sets (#2488)
+* FIX: Sync Rule restore from snapshot on name change (#2467)
+* FIX: Do not export UUIDs with Service Sets (#2488)
+
+### CLI
+* FEATURE: Allow to define deployment grace period on CLI (#2499)
+
+### Integrations
+* FIX: Cleanup IcingaDbCubeLinks (#2484)
+
+### DB Schema
+* FIX: applying DB Schema migrations failed on PostgreSQL (#2482)
+
+1.9.0
+-----
+
+### Breaking Changes
+* Module dependencies have been raised, [Upgrading](05-Upgrading.md) and
+ [Installation](02-Installation.md) documentations contain related details
+
+### Fixed issues
+* You can find issues and feature requests related to this release on our
+ [roadmap](https://github.com/Icinga/icingaweb2-module-director/milestone/25?closed=1)
+
+### Import and Sync
+* FIX: string property modifiers now preserve NULL values (#2371)
+* FIX: "to int" property modifiers now fails for non-string values (#2372)
+* FEATURE: introduce 'disable' as your purge action on Sync (#2285)
+* FEATURE: there is now a simple "group by" Property Modifier (#2317)
+
+### Configuration Baskets
+* FIX: Notification Apply Rules have not been exported (#2335)
+* FIX: Restore now supports the set_if_format switch (#2291)
+* FEATURE: it's now possible to purge objects of specific types (#2201)
+* FEATURE: exporting Users, User-Templates and -Groups is now possible (#2328)
+* FEATURE: Data Field Categories are now supported (#2256)
+
+### Permissions and Restrictions
+* FEATURE: allow using monitoring module permissions (#2304)
+* FEATURE: it's now possible to grant (global) access to scheduled downtimes (#2086)
+
+### Configuration / Templating
+* FEATURE: offering choices based on a specific imports is now possible (#1178)
+
+### User Interface
+* FIX: allow switching DB config while connection is failing (#2300)
+* FIX: Links to duplicate services in Sets didn't check for deactivation (#2323)
+* FIX: SQL error for Data Fields table on PostgreSQL (#2310)
+* FIX: SQL error when searching for Data Field Categories (#2367)
+* FIX: Icon used for Notifications has been changed (#2455)
+* FEATURE: show "deprecated" flag on object attribute inspection (#2312)
+* FEATURE: Service Template for single Host services provides auto-completion (#1974)
+
+### CLI
+* FEATURE: config deployment now allows to --wait for an Icinga restart (#2314)
+
+### Activity log
+* FEATURE: Activity log now allows for remarks (addon module required, #2471)
+
+### Documentation
+* FIX: configure the daemon with main setup instructions (#2296, #2320)
+
+### Internals
+* FEATURE: PHP 8.1 is now supported, works once available in Icinga Web (#2435)
+* FEATURE: Config Branches have been implemented, leveraged via Hook/Addon (#2376)
+* FEATURE: UUIDs have been implemented for most Icinga objects, more to come
+* FEATURE: new Deployment Hook, triggers onCollect(ing) Icinga startup info (#2315)
+
+1.8.1
+-----
+
+### Fixed issues
+* You can find issues and feature requests related to this release on our
+ [roadmap](https://github.com/Icinga/icingaweb2-module-director/milestone/24?closed=1)
+
+### User Interface
+* FIX: show Override button when all Fields belong to Field Categories (#2303)
+* FIX: don't fail when showing a Host overriding multiple inherited groups (#2253)
+* FIX: deal with inherited values which are invalid for a select box (#2288)
+* FIX: Service Set preview inline Service Template links (#2334)
+* FIX: show Services applied with Rules involving applied Hostgroups (#2313)
+* FIX: show "deactivated" services as such also for read-only users (#2344)
+* FIX: Overrides for Services belonging to Sets on root Host Templates (#2333)
+* FIX: show no header tabs for search result in web 2.8+ (#2141)
+* FIX: show and link dependencies for web 2.9+ (#2354)
+
+### Icinga Configuration
+* FIX: rare race condition, where generated config might miss some files (#2351)
+
+### Icinga API
+* FIX: use Icinga 2's generate-ticket API, required for v2.13.0 (#2348)
+
+### Import and Sync
+* FIX: Purge didn't remove more than 1000 services at once (#2339)
+
+### Automation, User Interface
+* FIX: error message wording on failing related (or parent) object ref (#2224)
+
+### REST API
+* FIX: creating scheduled downtime via api failed (#1879)
+
+1.8.0
+-----
+
+### Fixed issues
+* You can find issues and feature requests related to this release on our
+ [roadmap](https://github.com/Icinga/icingaweb2-module-director/milestone/21?closed=1)
+
+### User Interface
+* FIX: It's now possible to set Endpoint ports > 32767 on PostgreSQL (#928)
+* FIX: Group list is no longer prefixed with a comma (#2133)
+* FIX: Change wording, avoid black/whitelist (#2134, #2135)
+* FIX: Inherited values in sets (arrays) are now shown (#1310)
+* FIX: Column layout broke with Web 2.8, has been fixed (#2065)
+* FIX: filter suggestion gave wrong values for DataList fields (#1918)
+* FIX: clone-related scheduled downtime links have been fixes (#1894)
+* FEATURE: Data Fields can now be grouped into categories (#1969)
+* FEATURE: Inspect is now available for Packages, Stages and Files (#1995)
+* FEATURE: Allow to disable the Director frontend / UI (#2007)
+* FEATURE: Endpoints table now shows the object type (e.g. external) (#2050)
+* FEATURE: make sure that form label and fields stay close together (#2136)
+* FEATURE: show more content, reduce padding (expect on mobile) (#2140)
+* FEATURE: location details for non-Director services on "Modify" (#1531)
+* FEATURE: Service Set table can now also be searched for Services (#1873)
+* FEATURE: Apply-Rule-based Service Sets now show related Hosts (#2081)
+* FEATURE: Notification Apply Rules as a DirectorObject DataField (#2199)
+* FEATURE: Hint and Error styling has been unified and improved
+* FEATURE: Form field rendering for sets now deals with invalid values
+* FEATURE: Better descriptions for time-based and other fields (#1897, #1264)
+* FEATURE: Daemon tab now gets red instead of yellow when not running (#2238)
+
+### Translations
+* FEATURE: Italian translation is now available (#2080)
+* FEATURE: German translation has been refreshed (#2240)
+
+### CLI
+* FEATURE: Deployment Status and related utilities (#2189)
+
+### Import and Sync
+* FEATURE: allow defining update-only Sync Rules (#2059)
+* FEATURE: New Property Modifier: ListToObject (#2062)
+* FEATURE: Property Modifier: convert binary UUID to HEX presentation (#2138)
+* FEATURE: Property Modifier: get Host by Address (#2210)
+* FEATURE: Property Modifier: skip duplicates (#2215)
+* FEATURE: Property Modifier: trim strings (#1660)
+* FEATURE: Property Modifier: negate boolean (#2227)
+* FEATURE: Property Modifier Reject/Select: improve usability (#2228)
+* FEATURE: Property Modifier: clone rows for every entry of an Array (#2192)
+* FEATURE: Property Modifier: unique array values (#2229)
+* FEATURE: Property Modifier: allow to rename columns (#2242)
+* FEATURE: Import Sources now allows downloading previewed data as JSON (#2096)
+* FEATURE: REST API Import now allows custom headers (#2132)
+* FEATURE: REST API Import can now extract nested properties (#2132)
+* FEATURE: REST API Form remembers passwords without exposing them (#2070)
+* FEATURE: UTF8 validation for failed imports gives better error message (#2143)
+* FEATURE: ArrayByElementPosition now allows filtering by key name (#1721)
+* FEATURE: Use your Director Objects as an Import Source (#2198)
+* FEATURE: Property modifiers are now granted access the current Property Name (#2241)
+* FIX: Import Source preview now catches all errors
+* FIX: Import Source download sends eventual errors as a valid JSON result
+* FIX: LDAP Import is now able to paginate limited results (#2019)
+
+### Configuration Baskets
+* FIX: Restoring Import Sources creating Modifiers now works (#2053)
+* FEATURE: Support Baskets from Icinca for Windows (#2223)
+* FEATURE: It's now possible to use Notification Templates in Baskets
+* FEATURE: Snapshot status/diff layout has been improved (#2225)
+
+### Authentication and Permissions
+* FIX: Users restricted to Hostgroups can now use related Templates (#2020, #2101)
+* FEATURE: Optionally, restricted users can be allowed to set Groups (#2252)
+
+### Kickstart
+* FEATURE: Friendlier message if object to be removed is still in use (#2206)
+* FEATURE: Kickstart now removes obsolete External Commands (#985)
+
+### Icinga Configuration
+* FIX: Correctly render Service Dependencies with Array-style parent hosts (#2088)
+* FIX: times.begin and times.end are now rendered separately (#2193)
+* REMOVED: magic-apply-for (a hidden deprecated feature) has been removed (#1851)
+
+### Icinga Agent handling
+* FIX: Linux Agent installer now fails when unable to retrieve a certificate
+* FEATURE: Linux Agent installer now supports Alpine Linux (#2216)
+* FEATURE: Icinga for Windows support (#2147)
+
+### REST API
+* FEATURE: Self Service API ignores empty/missing properties (e.g. no address)
+* FEATURE: Search is now also available for the REST API (#1889)
+* FEATURE: Deployment Status is now available (#2187)
+* FEATURE: UTF-8 characters and slashes are no longer escaped (#2243)
+
+### Self Service API
+* FIX: error handling has been fixed (#1728)
+
+### Database Support
+* FIX: Added UTF8 to valid PostgreSQL encodings (used to be UTF-8)
+
+### Background Daemon
+* FIX: Daemon Logger used to not override the given log level (#2139)
+* FEATURE: Daemon: prepare for future reactphp promise versions (#2137)
+* FEATURE: Daemon now logs that it is going to reload itself
+* FEATURE: Now collects the Deployment status from Icinga (#2045, #1988)
+
+### Documentation
+* FEATURE: We now also mention optional/indirect requirements (#2054, #2220)
+
+### Internals
+* FEATURE: Property Modifiers are now able to clone rows (#2060)
+* FEATURE: URL encoding for the Core API has been unified
+* FEATURE: PHP 8.0 has been released and is officially supported (#2233)
+* REMOVED: dipl has been dropped, we're using ipl/incubator since v1.7 (#2209)
+* FIX: typo in DeploymentHook::onSuccessfulDump() has been fixed (#2069)
+* FIX: forms now support dbResourceName (#2064)
+
+1.7.2
+-----
+
+### Fixed issues
+* You can find issues and feature requests related to this release on our
+ [roadmap](https://github.com/Icinga/icingaweb2-module-director/milestone/23?closed=1)
+
+### DB Schema
+* FIX: Rolling out new installations on MySQL v5.6 fails (#1993)
+
+### Icinga Configuration
+* FIX: Render service\_name for Notifications (#2006)
+
+### User Interface
+* FIX: Cloning Import Sources failed since v1.7.0 (#1997)
+* FIX: Switching Director DBs was broken since Web 2.6.3 (#2063)
+
+### CLI
+* FIX: Importing Import Sources failed since v1.7.0 (#2005)
+
+### Automation
+* FIX: Fixing linux install script version check (#2008)
+* FIX: Windows Kickstart Script - $GlobalZones was empty (#2002)
+
+### Documentation
+* FIX: Missing single quote in mysql example bug (#2003)
+
+1.7.1
+-----
+
+### Fixed issues
+* You can find issues and feature requests related to this release on our
+ [roadmap](https://github.com/Icinga/icingaweb2-module-director/milestone/22?closed=1)
+
+### User Interface
+* FIX: Cloning Sync rules failed since v1.7.0 (#1982)
+* FIX: It wasn't possible to multi-select Hosts belonging to a Group (#1973)
+* FIX: Removed an un-formatted error in case Icinga is unreachable (#1966)
+* FIX: Check for broken configs has been extended to Icinga v2.11.* (#1985)
+* FEATURE: Show a warning when detecting a downgraded installation (#1992)
+
+### Import and Sync
+* FIX: Upper- and Lowercase property modifiers are now multibyte/UTF8-safe (#710)
+
+### Health Check
+* FIX: do not complain about no-due newly created jobs (#1994)
+
+### Background Daemon
+* FIX: Daemon didn't report DB state to systemd (#1983)
+
+1.7.0
+-----
+### Breaking Changes
+* At least PHP 5.6.3 is now required, Director 1.7.x will refuse to work with
+ older versions
+* New dependencies have been introduced, [Upgrading](05-Upgrading.md) and
+ [Installation](02-Installation.md) documentations contain related details
+
+### Fixed issues
+* You can find issues and feature requests related to this release on our
+ [roadmap](https://github.com/Icinga/icingaweb2-module-director/milestone/18?closed=1)
+
+### User Interface
+* FIX: Service-related links in Activity Log have been corrected (#1377, #1816)
+* FIX: Activity Log now works for Service Sets (#1287, #1786, #1816)
+* FIX: Assign Filters are no longer mandatory when modifying Service Groups (#930)
+* FIX: Object type for CheckCommands has been corrected in config preview (#1799)
+* FIX: Import preview in combination with Black/Whitelisting (#1825)
+* FIX: Routing/redirection when working with Data Fields (#1847)
+* FIX: Auto-suggestion field was positioned wrongly once scrolled down
+* FIX: Timezone inconsistencie have been fixed (#1700)
+* FIX: Link-like buttons where shortened on Icinga Web 2.7 (#1928)
+* FIX: Search in range-filtered Activity Log no longer fails (#1381)
+* FEATURE: It's now possible to clone a Service to a different Host (#1796)
+* FEATURE: Scheduled Downtimes for "Hosts AND their services" (#1831)
+* FEATURE: Auto-suggestion and more for Fields based on Data Lists (#1846)
+* FEATURE: Show missing dependencies (#1938)
+
+### Translations
+* FEATURE: German translation has been refreshed (#1951)
+* FEATURE: Japanese is now available (#1869)
+
+### Import and Sync
+* FIX: Avoid caching between multiple runs of sync (#1836)
+* FIX: Imported Rows Table (history) eventually failed on Icinga Web 2 (#1925)
+* FIX: Improved error handling on preview (#1941)
+* FEATURE: When fetching invalid data, Import refers erroneous rows (#1741)
+* FEATURE: Sync now offers a preview, showing what would happen (#1754)
+* FEATURE: ParseURL property modifier has been added (#1746)
+* FEATURE: There is a new generic REST API Import Source (#1818)
+* FEATURE: Sync now supports Notifications and Dependencies (#1212, #925, #1209)
+* FEATURE: Limits (memory, execution time) raised for Import runs via UI (#1954)
+
+### Configuration Baskets
+* FIX: snapshots do no longer fail for deleted elements on snapshot (#1940)
+* FEATURE: baskets now support External Commands (#1854)
+
+### REST API
+* FIX: Command Arguments can now be managed via API (#1416)
+
+### CLI
+* FIX: importsource fetch did not apply configured property modifiers (#1819)
+* FEATURE: Service Groups are now available on CLI (#1745)
+* FEATURE: A new background daemon has been introduced (#1905)
+
+### Icinga Configuration
+* FIX: Allow to render single configuration files larger than 16MB (#1787)
+* FIX: Icinga v2.11 version detection for Agent Installation script (#1957)
+* DEPRECATED: magic-apply-for (a hidden feature) is now deprecated (#1850)
+* FEATURE: It's now possible to define Scheduled Downtimes (#347, #1828)
+* FEATURE: Allow to render command definitions as (v1.x-like) strings (#1809)
+* FEATURE: host address now allows 255 characters (#1890)
+* FEATURE: Director now assists with Services applied to parent Zones (#1634)
+* FEATURE: Warn affected setups when affected by a specific core issue (#1958)
+
+### Documentation
+* FIX: Installation instructions have been adjusted to fit MySQL 8
+
+### Internals
+* FIX: support different timezones with MySQL (#1332, #1840)
+* FIX: support importing DSL-based Command Arguments (#1812)
+* FEATURE: a new Hook allows to run custom code at deployment time (#1342, #1843)
+* FEATURE: there is a new low-level IcingaObjectFormHook (#1841)
+
+1.6.2
+-----
+### Fixed issues
+* You can find issues and feature requests related to this release on our
+ [roadmap](https://github.com/Icinga/icingaweb2-module-director/milestone/20?closed=1)
+
+### Icinga Configuration
+* FIX: rendering for Service Sets on single Hosts has been fixed (#1788, #1789)
+
+1.6.1
+-----
+### Fixed issues
+* You can find issues and feature requests related to this release on our
+ [roadmap](https://github.com/Icinga/icingaweb2-module-director/milestone/19?closed=1)
+
+### User Interface
+* FIX: restoring a basket fails when there is only one configured DB (#1716)
+* FIX: creating a new Basket with a "Custom Selection" failed with an error (#1733)
+* FIX: some new reserved keywords are now escaped correctly (#1765)
+* FIX: correctly render NOT used in apply rules (fixes #1777)
+* FIX: Activity Log used to ignore Host filters (#1613)
+* FIX: Basket failed to restore depending on PHP version (#1782)
+* FIX: Loop detection works again (#1631)
+* FIX: Snapshots for Baskets with Dependencies are now possible (#1739)
+* FIX: Commands snapshots now carry fields in your Basket (#1747)
+* FIX: Cloning services from one Set to another one no longer fails (#1758)
+* FIX: Blacklisting a Service from a Set on a Host Template is now possible (#1707)
+* FIX: Services from a Set assigned to a single Host can be blacklisted (#1616)
+* FEATURE: Add TimePeriod support to Configuration Baskets (#1735)
+* FEATURE: RO users could want to see where a configured service originated (#1785)
+* FEATURE: introduce director/serviceapplyrules REST API endpoint (#1755)
+
+### REST API
+* FIX: Self Service API now ships optional Service User parameter (#1297)
+
+### DB Schema
+* FIX: it wasn't possible to use the same custom var in multiple notification
+ definitions on PostgreSQL (#1762)
+
+### Icinga Configuration
+* FIX: escape newly introduced Icinga 2 keywords (#1765)
+
+1.6.0
+-----
+### Fixed issues
+* You can find issues and feature requests related to this release on our
+ [roadmap](https://github.com/Icinga/icingaweb2-module-director/milestone/15?closed=1)
+
+### User Interface
+* FIX: link startup log warning even for non-standard package names (#1633)
+* FIX: searching for fields assigned to a template was broken (#1670)
+* FIX: changing an argument type from String to DSL didn't work (#1640)
+* FIX: incorrect links from template-tree to non-template commands (#1544)
+* FIX: drop useless object-type field for Time Periods (#788)
+* FIX: clean up naming for some tabs (#1312)
+* FIX: "remove" now removes the correct Service Set on a Host (#1619)
+* FIX: do not fail when "inspecting" a pending service (#1641)
+* FIX: a problem when selecting multiple host has been fixed (#1647)
+* FIX: allow to remove renamed Service Sets (#1664)
+* FIX: resolved a side-effect triggered by hooked Custom Fields (#1667)
+* FIX: config diff URL behavior has been corrected (#1704)
+* FEATURE: allow to filter templates by usage (#1339)
+* FEATURE: allow to show SQL used for template tables
+* FEATURE: allow to defined Service Groups for Set members and for Services
+ assigned to Host Templates (#619)
+* FEATURE: it's now possible to choose another target Service Set when cloning
+ a member service (#886)
+* FEATURE: Configuration Baskets with snapshot/import/export capabilities (#1630)
+* FEATURE: Allow to clone a Service from one Set to another one (#886)
+* FEATURE: form descriptions are now shown directly below the field, reverting
+ a change from v1.4.0 (#1510)
+* FEATURE: show sub-sets in Config Preview (#1623)
+* FEATURE: show live Health-Check in the frontend (#1669)
+
+### Import and Sync
+* FIX: Core Api imports flapping only for 2.8+ (#1652)
+* FEATURE: new Property Modifier allows to extract specific Array values (#473)
+
+### CLI
+* FIX: Director Health Check no longer warns about no Imports/Syncs/Jobs (#1607)
+* FEATURE: It's now possible to dump data as fetched by an Import Source (#1626)
+* FEATURE: CLI implementation for Configuration Basket features (#1630)
+* FEATURE: allow to append to or remove from array properties (#1666)
+
+### Icinga Configuration
+* FIX: rendering of disabled objects containing `*/` has been fixed (#1263)
+* FEATURE: support for Timeperiod include/exclude (#1639)
+* FEATURE: improve legacy v1.x configuration rendering (#1624)
+
+### Icinga API
+* FIX: ship workarounds for issues with specific Icinga 2 versions
+* FIX: clean up deployed incomplete stages lost by Icinga (#1696)
+* FEATURE: allow to behave differently based on Icinga 2 version (#1695)
+
+### Icinga Agent handling
+* FEATURE: ship latest PowerShell module (#1632)
+* FIX: PowerShell module runs in FIPS enforced mode (#1274)
+
+### DB Schema
+* FIX: enforce strict object_name uniqueness on commands (#1496)
+
+### Documentation
+* FEATURE: improve installation docs, fix URLs (#1656, #1655)
+
+
+1.5.2
+-----
+### Fixed issues
+* You can find issues and feature requests related to this release on our
+ [roadmap](https://github.com/Icinga/icingaweb2-module-director/milestone/17?closed=1)
+
+### Configuration rendering
+* FIX: Fix compatibility with Icinga v2.6, got broken with v1.5.0 (#1614)
+
+### REST API
+* FIX: No more invalid JSON in some special circumstances (#1314)
+
+### User Interface
+* FIX: Hostgroup assignment cache has been fixed (#1574, #1618)
+
+### DB Schema
+* FIX: missing user/timeperiod constraint. We usually do not touch the schema
+ in minor versions, this has been cherry-picked by accident. However, don't
+ worry - the migration has been tested intensively.
+
+1.5.1
+-----
+### Fixed issues
+* You can find issues and feature requests related to this release on our
+ [roadmap](https://github.com/Icinga/icingaweb2-module-director/milestone/16?closed=1)
+
+### Icinga Configuration
+* FIX: Switched Variable-Override related constant names broke the feature (#1601)
+
+### User Interface
+* FIX: Custom Fields attached to a Service Template have not been shown for Apply
+ Rules whose name matched the Template Name (#1602)
+
+### Import and Sync
+* FIX: There was an issue with specific binary checksums on MySQL (#1556)
+
+1.5.0
+-----
+### Fixed issues
+* You can find issues and feature requests related to this release on our
+ [roadmap](https://github.com/Icinga/icingaweb2-module-director/milestone/11?closed=1)
+
+### Security Fixes
+* FIX: users with `director/audit` permission had the possibility to inject SQL.
+ Thanks to Boyd Ansems for reporting this.
+
+### Permissions and Restrictions
+* FEATURE: Showing the executed SQL query now requires the `showsql` permission
+* FEATURE: Grant access to Service Set in a controlled way
+* FIX: do not allow a user to create hosts he wouldn't be allowed to see #1451
+* FIX: Hostgroup-based restrictions worked fine when applied, bug was buggy in
+ combination with directly assigned or inherited groups (#1464)
+
+### Icinga Configuration
+* FEATURE: Add 'is false (or not set)' condition for apply rules (#1436)
+* FEATURE: support flapping settings for Icinga &gt;= 2.8.0 (#330)
+* FEATURE: include all itl packages in Linux Agent sample config (#1450)
+* FEATURE: it's now possible to blacklist inherited or applied Services on
+ single hosts (#907)
+* FEATURE: timestamped startup log rendering for upcoming Icinga v2.9.0 (#1478)
+* FEATURE: allow to switch between multiple Director databases (#1498)
+* FEATURE: it's now possible to specify Zones for UserGroups (#1163)
+* FEATURE: dependencies are no longer considered experimental
+
+### User Interface
+* FEATURE: Admins have now access to JSON download links in many places
+* FEATURE: Users equipped with related permissions can toggle "Show SQL" in the GUI
+* FEATURE: A Service Set can now be assigned to multiple hosts at once #1281
+* FEATURE: Commands can now be filtered by usage (#1480)
+* FEATURE: Show usage of Commands over templates and objects (#335)
+* FEATURE: Allow horizontal size increase of Import Source DB Query field (#299)
+* FEATURE: Small UI improvements like #1308
+* FEATURE: Data Lists can be chosen by name in Sync rules (#1048)
+* FEATURE: Inspect feature got refactored, also for Services (#264, #689, #1396, #1397)
+* FEATURE: The "Modify" hook is now available for Services (#689), regardless
+ of whether they have been directly assigned, inherited or applied
+* FEATURE: Config preview links imports, hosts and commands to related objects (#1521)
+* FEATURE: German translation has been refreshed (#1599)
+* FEATURE: Apply Rule editor shows suggestions for Data-List vars (#1588)
+* FIX: Don't suggest Command templates where Commands are required (#1414)
+* FIX: Do not allow to delete Commands being used by other objects (#1443)
+* FIX: Show 'Inspect' tab only for Endpoints with an ApiUser (#1293)
+* FIX: It's now possible to specify TimePeriods for single Users #944
+* FIX: Redirect after not modifying a Command Argument failed on some RHEL 7
+ setups (#1512)
+* FIX: click on Service Set titles no longer removes them from their host (#1560)
+* FIX: Restoring objects based on compound keys has been fixed (#1597)
+* FIX: Linux Agent kickstart script improved and tweaked for Icinga 2.9 (#1596)
+
+### CLI
+* FEATURE: Director Health Check Plugin (#1278)
+* FEATURE: Show and trigger Import Sources (#1474)
+* FEATURE: Show and trigger Sync Rules ( #1476)
+
+### Import and Sync
+* FIX: Sync is very powerful and allows for actions not available in the GUI. It
+ however allowed to store invalid single Service Objects with no Host. This is
+ now illegal, as it never makes any sense
+* FIX: Performance boost for "purge" on older MySQL/MariaDB systems (#1475)
+* FEATURE: new Property Modifier for IPs formatted as number in Excel files (#1296)
+* FEATURE: new Property Modifier to url-encode values
+* FEATURE: new Property Modifier: uppercase the first character of each word
+* FEATURE: Kickstart Helper now also imports Event Commands (#1389)
+* FEATURE: Preserve _override_servicevars on sync, even when replacing vars (#1307)
+
+### Internals
+* FIX: problems related to users working from different time zones have been
+ fixed (#1270, #1332)
+* FEATURE: Html/Attribute now allows boolean properties
+* FEATURE: Html/Attribute allows colons in attribute names (required for SVGs)
+* FEATURE: Html/Attributes can be prefixed (helps with data-*)
+* FEATURE: Html/Img data:-urls are now supported
+* FEATURE: ipl has been aligned with the upcoming ipl-html library
+* FEATURE: Director now supports multiple Databases, allows to switch between
+ them and to deploy different Config Packages. Other features based on this
+ combined with related documentation will follow.
+
+1.4.3
+-----
+### Fixed issues
+* You can find issues and feature requests related to this release on our
+ [roadmap](https://github.com/Icinga/icingaweb2-module-director/milestone/13?closed=1)
+
+### User Interface
+* FIX: Pagination used to be broken for some tables (#1273)
+
+### Automation
+* FIX: API calls changing only object relations and no "real" property resulted
+ in no change at all (#1315)
+
+1.4.2
+-----
+### Fixed issues
+* You can find issues and feature requests related to this release on our
+ [roadmap](https://github.com/Icinga/icingaweb2-module-director/milestone/13?closed=1)
+
+### Configuration rendering
+* FIX: Caching had an influence on context-specific Custom Variable rendering
+ when those variables contained macros (#1257)
+
+### Sync
+* FIX: The fix for #1223 caused a regression and broke Sync for objects without
+ a 'disabled' property (Sets, List members) (#1279)
+
+1.4.1
+-----
+### Fixed issues
+* You can find issues and feature requests related to this release on our
+ [roadmap](https://github.com/Icinga/icingaweb2-module-director/milestone/12?closed=1)
+
+### Automation
+* FIX: A Sync Rule with `merge` policy used to re-enable manually disabled objects,
+ even when no Sync Property `disabled` has been defined (#1223)
+* FIX: Fix SQL error on PostgreSQL when inspecting Template-Choice (#1242)
+
+### Large environments
+* FIX: Director tries to raise it's memory limit for certain memory-intensive
+ tasks. When granted more (but not infinite) memory however this had the effect
+ that he self-restricted himself to a lower limit (#1222)
+
+### User Interface
+* FIX: Assignment filters suggested only Host properties, you have been required
+ to manually type Service property names (#1207)
+* FIX: Hostgroups Dashlet has been shown to users with restricted permissions,
+ clicking it used to throw an error (#1237)
+
+1.4.0
+-----
+### New requirements
+* Icinga Director now requires PHP 5.4, support for 5.3 has been dropped
+* For best performance we strongly suggest PHP 7
+* When using MySQL, please consider slowly moving to at least version 5.5. One
+ of our next versions will introduce official Emoji support 😱😱😱! That's not
+ possible with older MySQL versions. However, 1.4.x still supports 5.1.x
+
+### Fixed issues and related features
+* You can find issues and feature requests related to this release on our
+ [roadmap](https://github.com/Icinga/icingaweb2-module-director/milestone/6?closed=1)
+
+### Dashboard and Dashlets
+* Multiple new Dashboards have been introduced, their layout has been optimized
+* Dashboards are made aware of newly introduced permissions and try to provide
+ useful hints
+
+### GUI, UX and Responsiveness
+* Many little improvements related to mobile devices have been applied to
+ Dashboards, Forms and Tables
+* Search has been both improved and simplified. On most tables search spawns
+ multiple columns, visible and invisible ones. Multiple search terms are
+ combined in an intuitive way.
+* Pagination (and search) has been added to those tables where it was still
+ missing
+* Some form fields referencing related objects are no longer static drop-down
+ selection elements but offer suggestions as you type. This makes forms faster,
+ especially in larger environments
+* Navigation has been simplified, redirects after form submissions have been
+ improved, more possibilities to jump to related objects have been added
+* Form field description has been moved to the bottom of the screen. Might be
+ easier to overlook this way, but while the former implementation was great
+ for people navigating forms with their Keyboard, it was annoying for Mouse
+ lovers
+* Double-Click a Tab to enlarge it to full width
+* Action Link bar has been unified, all links should now respect permissions
+* All tables showing historic data are now grouped by day
+* Property Modifiers, Sync Rules, Import Sources and more objects now offer
+ description fields. This allows you to explain your colleagues all the magic
+ going on behind the scenes
+
+### Object Types
+* Service Sets got quite some tweaking and bug fixing
+* Groups of all kinds are now able to list their members, even when being
+ applied based on filters
+* Command Argument handling has been improved
+* It is now possible to configure Dependencies through the Icinga Director
+* Cloning Hosts now allows to also optionally clone their Services and Service
+ Sets
+
+### Templates
+* The template resolver has been rewritten, is now easier to test, strict and
+ faster
+* Template Tree has been re-written and now also immediately shows whether a
+ template is in use
+* When navigating to a Template you'll notice a new usage summary page showing
+ you where and how that specific template is being used. Therefor, many tables
+ are now internally able to filter by inheritance
+
+### Template Choices
+* While Host- and Service-Templates are powerful building blocks, having to choose
+ from a single long list might become unintuitive as this list starts growing.
+ That's where Template Choices jump in. They allow you to bundle related Templates
+ together and offer your users to choose amongst them in a meaningful way.
+
+### Apply rules
+* Various related issues have been addressed
+* A new virtual "is true / is set" operator is now available
+
+### Permissions and Restrictions
+* It is now possible to limit access to Hosts belonging to a a list of Hostgroups.
+ This works also for Hostgroups assigned through Apply Rules.
+* Data List entries can be made available based on Roles
+
+### Data Types
+* SQL Query and Data List based Data Fields can now both be offered as Array fields,
+ so that you can choose among specific options when filling such
+* New overview tables give admins a deep look into used Custom Variables, their
+ distinct values and usage
+* Various issues related to Boolean values have been fixed
+
+### Import and Synchronization
+* Many issues have been addressed. Merge behavior, handling of special fields and
+ data types
+* Problems with Import Source deletion on PostgreSQL have been addressed
+* New Property Modifiers are available. When importing single Services you might
+ love the "Combine" modifier
+* It is now possible to re-arrange execution order of Property Modifiers and
+ Sync Properties
+* Preview rendering got some improvements
+* "Replace" policy on Custom Vars is now always respected
+* Using VMware/vSphere/ESX? There is now a new powerful module providing a
+ dedicated Import Source
+
+### REST API
+* A new Self Service API now allows to completely automate your Icinga Agent
+ roll-out, especially (but not only) for Microsoft Windows
+* List views are now officially available. They are very fast and stream the
+ result in a memory-efficient way
+* Documentation better explains how to deal with various objects, especially
+ with different types of Services (!!!!!)
+
+### Internal architecture
+* Many base components have been completely replaced and re-written, based on
+ and early prototype of our upcoming Icinga PHP Library (ipl)
+
+1.3.2
+-----
+
+### Fixed issues and related features
+* You can find issues and feature requests related to this release on our
+ [roadmap](https://github.com/Icinga/icingaweb2-module-director/milestone/10?closed=1)
+
+### Apply Rules
+* Slashes in Apply Rules have not been correctly escaped
+* Services applied based on Arrays (contains) did not show up in the Hosts
+ Services list, and therefor it was not possible to override their vars
+* Some magic has been introduced to detect numbers in apply rules - not perfect
+ yet
+
+### Host Groups
+* It has not been possible to modify Host Groups without defining an apply rule
+* Hostgroups have not been sorted
+* It is now legal to have `external` HostGroup objects
+
+### Rendered Config
+* Custom Endpoint objects are now rendered to their parent zone
+* (Rendering) issues with the `in` operator have been fixed
+* You are now allowed to put Notifications into specific Zones
+
+### Usability and UI
+* Selecting multiple hosts at once and deleting them had no effect
+* Documentation got some little improvements
+* German translation has been refreshed
+* Header alignment has been improved
+* Escaping issues with the Inspect feature have been addressed
+
+### Kickstart
+
+* Kickstart is more robust and now able to deal with renamed Icinga Masters and
+ more
+
+### CLI
+* It is not possible to list and show Service Sets on the CLI
+
+### Import and Sync
+* Synchronizing Data List entries caused problems
+* A new Import Modifier has been added to deal with LConf specialities
+* Issues with special characters like spaces used in column names shipped by
+ Import Sources have been addressed
+* A new Property Modifier allows to filter Arrays based on wildcards or regular
+ expressions
+* A new Property Modifier allowing to "Combine multiple properties" has been
+ introduced. It's main purpose is to provide reliable unique keys when importing
+ single service objects.
+* A new warning hint informs you in case you created a Sync Rule without related
+ properties
+* Synchronization filters failed when built with columns not used in any property
+ mapping
+
+### Auditing
+* The audit log now also carries IP address and username
+
+### Generic bug fixes
+* Fixed erraneous loop detection under certain (rare) conditions
+* Various issues with PHP 5.3 have been fixed
+* Combination of multiple table filters might have failed (in very rare conditions)
+
+1.3.1
+-----
+
+### Fixed issues and related features
+* You can find issues and feature requests related to this release on our
+ [roadmap](https://github.com/Icinga/icingaweb2-module-director/milestone/8?closed=1)
+
+### Service Sets
+* Various little issues have been fixed. You can now remove Sets from hosts,
+ even when being empty. Services from Sets assigned to parents or via apply
+ rule are now shown for every single host, and their custom vars can be
+ overridden at a single host level
+* Sets assigned to single hosts have been shown, variable overrides have been
+ offered - but rendering did not include the Director-generated template
+ necessary to really put them into place. This has been fixed
+
+### Usability
+* A nasty bug hindered fields inherited from Commands from being shown ad a
+ Service level - works fine right now
+* There is now a pagination for Zones
+* Multiedit no longer showed custom fields, now it works again as it should
+
+### Rendering
+* Disabling a host now also disables rendering of related objects (Endpoint,
+ Zone) for hosts using the Icinga Agent
+
+### REST API
+* Ticket creation through the REST API has been broken, is now fixed
+
+### Performance, Internals
+* A data encoding inconsistency slowed down apply rule editing where a lot of
+ host custom vars exists
+* Some internal changes have been made to make parts of the code easier to be
+ used by other modules
+
+1.3.0
+-----
+
+### Fixed issues and related features
+* You can find issues and feature requests related to this release on our
+ [roadmap](https://github.com/Icinga/icingaweb2-module-director/milestone/7?closed=1)
+
+### Service Sets
+* You are now allowed to create sets of services and assign all of them at
+ once with an apply rule
+* Sets can be assigned to host templates or directly to single hosts
+
+### Service Variable Overrides
+* When switching to a host view's services tab, you'll now not only see its
+ very own services, but also ones that result from an apply rule
+* You can override those services custom field values for every single host
+* Same goes for services belonging to Service Sets
+
+### Apply rules
+* A new "contains" operator gives more possibilities when working with arrays
+* Service vars are now also offered in the apply rule form wizard
+
+### Custom Variables and Fields
+* Issues with special characters in custom variables have been fixed
+* In case mandatory fields should not have been enforced, this should work
+ fine right now
+* Fields can now be shown based on filter rules. Example use case: show a
+ `Community String` field in case `SNMPv2` has been selected, but show
+ five other fields for `SNMPv3`. This allows one to build powerful little
+ wizard-like forms like shown [here](16-Fields-example-SNMP.md)
+
+### Agents and Satellites
+* It is now possible to set Agent and Zone settings on every single host. This
+ means that you no longer need to provide dedicated Templates for Satellite
+ nodes
+* The proposed Agent Deployment script has been improved for Windows and Linux
+* Infrastructure management got a dedicated dashboard
+* Kickstart Wizard helps when working with Satellites. This has formerly been
+ a hidden, now it can be accessed through the Infrastructure dashboard
+
+### Commands
+* Command arguments are now always appended when inheriting a template. This
+ slightly changes the former behavior, but should mostly be what one would
+ expect anyways.
+
+### Testing
+* [Testing instructions](93-Testing.md) have been improved
+* Running the test suite has been simplified
+* While we keep running our own [tests](93-Testing.md) on software platforms, tests
+ are now also visible on Travis-CI and triggered for all pull requests
+
+### Compatibility
+* We worked around a bug in very old PHP 5.3 versions on CentOS 6
+
+### Activity log
+* You can now search and filter in the Activity log
+* In case you have hundreds of thousands of changes you'll notice that pagination
+ performance improve a lot
+* A quick-filter allows you to see just your very own changes with a single click
+
+### Deployment
+* More performance tweaking took place. 1.2.0 was already very fast, 1.3.0 should
+ beat it
+* Deployment log got better at detecting files and linking them directly from the
+ log output, in case any error occured
+
+### Work related to Icinga 1.x
+* Deploying to Icinga 1.x is completely unsupported. However, it works and a
+ lot of effort has been put into this feature, so it should be mentioned here
+* Please note that the Icinga Director has not been designed to deploy legacy
+ 1.x configuration. This is a sponsored feature for a larger migration project
+ and has therefore been built in a very opinionated way. You shouldn't even
+ try to use it. And if so, you're on your own. Nobody will help you when
+ running into trouble
+
+### Translation
+* German translation is now again at 100%
+
+### REST API
+* Issues related to fetching object lists have been fixed
+
+### Integrations
+* We now hook into the [Cube](https://github.com/icinga/icingaweb2-module-cube)
+ module, this gives one more possibility to benefit from our multi-edit feature
+* Icinga Web 2.4 caused some minor issues for 1.2.0. It works, but an upgrade to
+ Director 1.3.0 is strongly suggested
+
+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](https://github.com/Icinga/icingaweb2-module-director/milestone/5?closed=1)
+
+### 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!
+
+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](https://github.com/Icinga/icingaweb2-module-director/milestone/4?closed=1)
+
+### 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
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+<a id="Want-more"></a>Want more?
+================================
+
+Icinga 2 configuration is a full-blown DSL, not just a configuration
+format. It provides endless possibilities, the very same thing can
+usually be accomplished in various ways. Director tries hard to offer
+you as many of those as possible while strictly trying to keep things
+simple.
+
+You are absolutely right if you think that this might not be an easy
+task. We do our best to give you as much flexibility as possible. In
+case you miss a feature or have a cool idea of what else we could add
+please let us know. Just file an issue or a feature request to our
+[issue tracker](https://github.com/Icinga/icingaweb2-module-director/issues).
+
+The Icinga project is and remains Open Source Software and lives from
+community ideas and contributions.
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+<a id="Testing"></a>Running Unit-Tests for the Director
+=======================================================
+
+There are basically multiple ways of running our Unit-Tests. All of them
+are explained here.
+
+Let others do the job
+---------------------
+
+Well, as there are tests available you might come to the conclusion that
+there is probably already someone running them from time to time. So, just
+lean back with full trust in our development toolchain and spend your time
+elsewhere ;-) Cheers!
+
+### Tests on Travis-CI
+
+When pushing to [GitHub](https://github.com/Icinga/icingaweb2-module-director/)
+or sending pull requests, Unit-Tests are automatically triggered on
+[Travis-CI](https://travis-ci.org/Icinga/icingaweb2-module-director):
+
+[![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/Icinga/icingaweb2-module-director.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/Icinga/icingaweb2-module-director)
+
+We run our tests against MySQL and PostgreSQL, with PHP versions ranging from
+5.3 to 7.1, including nightly builds.
+
+### Tests for supported Platforms
+
+As far as we know, Director is currently mostly used on CentOS (or RHEL)
+versions 6 and 7, Debian Stable (Jessie) and Ubuntu LTS (Xenial). So we are
+running our tests on our own platforms for exactly those systems. All of them
+with PostgreSQL, MySQL (or MariaDB).
+
+This way we reach the mostly used Database and PHP versions:
+
+![Test result](screenshot/director/93_testing/931_director_testing_duration.png)
+
+
+Run tests on demand
+-------------------
+
+The easiest variant is to run the tests directly on the system where you
+have installed your Director.
+
+### Requirements
+
+* Icinga Web 2 configured
+* Director module installed
+* A dedicated DB resource
+* PHPUnit installed
+
+### Configuration
+
+You can use your existing database resource or create a dedicated one. This
+might be either MySQL or PostgreSQL, you just need to tell the Director the
+name of your resource:
+
+```ini
+; /etc/icingaweb2/modules/director/config.ini
+
+[db]
+resource = "Director DB"
+
+[testing]
+db_resource = "Director Test DB"
+```
+
+### Run your tests
+
+Just move to your Director module path...
+
+ cd /usr/share/icingaweb2/modules/director
+
+...tell Director where to find your configuration...
+
+ export ICINGAWEB_CONFIGDIR=/etc/icingaweb2
+
+...and finally run the tests:
+
+ phpunit
+
+Try parameters like `--testdox` or `--verbose` or check the PHPUnit documentation
+to get an output that fits your needs. Depending on your parameters the output
+might look like this...
+
+```
+PHPUnit 5.1.3 by Sebastian Bergmann and contributors.
+
+.................................................S............... 65 / 81 ( 80%)
+..S............. 81 / 81 (100%)
+
+Time: 1.8 seconds, Memory: 10.00Mb
+
+OK, but incomplete, skipped, or risky tests!
+Tests: 81, Assertions: 166, Skipped: 2.
+```
+
+...or this:
+
+```
+PHPUnit 5.1.3 by Sebastian Bergmann and contributors.
+
+s\Icinga\Module\Director\CustomVariable\CustomVariables
+ [x] Whether special key names
+ [x] Vars can be unset and set again
+ [x] Variables to expression
+
+s\Icinga\Module\Director\IcingaConfig\AssignRenderer
+ [x] Whether equal match is correctly rendered
+ [x] Whether wildcards render a match method
+ [x] Whether a combined filter renders correctly
+
+s\Icinga\Module\Director\IcingaConfig\ExtensibleSet
+ [x] No values result in empty set
+ [x] Values passed to constructor are accepted
+ [x] Constructor accepts single values
+ [x] Single values can be blacklisted
+ [x] Multiple values can be blacklisted
+ [x] Simple inheritance works fine
+ [x] We can inherit from multiple parents
+ [x] Own values override parents
+ [x] Inherited values can be blacklisted
+ [x] Inherited values can be extended
+ [x] Combined definition renders correctly
+
+s\Icinga\Module\Director\IcingaConfig\IcingaConfigHelper
+ [x] Whether interval string is correctly parsed
+ [x] Whether invalid interval string raises exception
+ [x] Whether an empty value gives null
+ [x] Whether interval string is correctly rendered
+ [x] Correctly identifies reserved words
+ ...
+
+```
+
+The very same output could look as follows when shown by your CI-Tool:
+
+![Test result - testdox](screenshot/director/93_testing/932_director_testing_output_testdox.png)
+
+Running with Gitlab-CI
+----------------------
+
+This chapter assumes that you have Gitlab and Gitlab-CI up and running. Our
+`gitlab-ci.yml` file currently supposes you to have shared runners providing
+specific tags and the following operating systems, each of them with MySQL and
+PostgreSQL installed locally:
+
+* CentOS 7
+* Debian Stable (Jessie)
+* Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial)
+
+### Preparing the Gitlab Runners
+
+The following instructions suppose that you provide runner instances with a very
+basic installation of each operating system. We used naked LXC instances immediately
+after launching them.
+
+For all of them, please define the following variables first:
+
+```sh
+# The URL pointing to your Gitlab installation
+GITLAB_URL=https://your.gitlab.example.com
+
+# The registration token for your Gitlab runners
+REGISTRATION_TOKEN=iwQs************kLbH7
+```
+
+#### CentOS 7
+
+```sh
+yum makecache
+curl -L https://packages.gitlab.com/install/repositories/runner/gitlab-ci-multi-runner/script.rpm.sh | bash
+
+# Sad workaround for container/chroot issues
+sed -i'' 's/repo_gpgcheck=1/repo_gpgcheck=0/' /etc/yum.repos.d/runner_gitlab-ci-multi-runner.repo
+
+# Package installation
+yum install -y https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm
+yum install -y https://packages.icinga.com/epel/7/release/noarch/icinga-rpm-release-7-1.el7.centos.noarch.rpm
+yum install -y php-Icinga icingaweb2-common phpunit mariadb-server postgresql-server \
+ postgresql-contrib gitlab-ci-multi-runner
+
+# Initialize the PostgreSQL data directory
+postgresql-setup initdb
+
+# We do not want to use Ident-based auth
+sed -ri 's/(all\s+127.0.0.1\/32\s+)ident/\1md5/' /var/lib/pgsql/data/pg_hba.conf
+
+# Start and enable all services
+systemctl enable postgresql
+systemctl start postgresql
+systemctl enable mariadb
+systemctl start mariadb
+
+# Fix platform-specific encoding issues
+echo "UPDATE pg_database SET datistemplate = FALSE WHERE datname = 'template1'" | su - postgres -c psql
+echo "DROP DATABASE template1" | su - postgres -c psql
+echo "CREATE DATABASE template1 WITH TEMPLATE = template0 ENCODING = 'UNICODE'" | su - postgres -c psql
+echo "UPDATE pg_database SET datistemplate = TRUE WHERE datname = 'template1'" | su - postgres -c psql
+echo "VACUUM FREEZE" | su - postgres -c psql template1
+
+# Grant the gitlab-runner ident-based admin access
+su - postgres -c 'createuser -a -d gitlab-runner'
+
+# Register the runner with your Gitlab installation
+gitlab-ci-multi-runner register -n \
+ -r "$REGISTRATION_TOKEN" \
+ --executor shell \
+ -u "$GITLAB_URL" \
+ --tag-list centos7,director
+```
+
+#### CentOS 6
+
+```
+yum makecache
+curl -L https://packages.gitlab.com/install/repositories/runner/gitlab-ci-multi-runner/script.rpm.sh | bash
+
+# Package installation
+yum install -y https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-6.noarch.rpm
+yum install -y https://packages.icinga.com/epel/6/release/noarch/icinga-rpm-release-6-1.el6.noarch.rpm
+yum install -y php-Icinga icingaweb2-common phpunit mysql-server gitlab-ci-multi-runner
+
+# Start and enable MySQL
+/etc/init.d/mysqld start
+chkconfig mysqld on
+
+# No PostgeSQL, 8.4 on CentOS 6 is too old
+
+# Register the runner with your Gitlab installation
+gitlab-ci-multi-runner register -n \
+ -r "$REGISTRATION_TOKEN" \
+ --executor shell \
+ -u "$GITLAB_URL" \
+ --tag-list centos6,director
+```
+
+#### Debian Stable (Jessie)
+
+```sh
+# Package installation
+apt-get update -q -q
+apt-get install -y -q wget curl
+wget -q -O - http://packages.icinga.com/icinga.key | apt-key add -
+echo 'deb http://packages.icinga.com/debian icinga-jessie main' > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/icinga.list
+curl -L https://packages.gitlab.com/install/repositories/runner/gitlab-ci-multi-runner/script.deb.sh | bash
+apt-get update -q -q
+DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get install --no-install-recommends -q -y \
+ php5-cli phpunit php5-mysql php5-json php5-fpm zend-framework php-icinga php5-pgsql \
+ mysql-server postgresql postgresql-client postgresql-contrib-9.4 \
+ gitlab-ci-multi-runner
+
+# Grant the gitlab-runner ident-based admin access
+su - postgres -c 'createuser -a -d gitlab-runner'
+
+# Register the runner with your Gitlab installation
+gitlab-ci-multi-runner register -n \
+ -r "$REGISTRATION_TOKEN" \
+ --executor shell \
+ -u "$GITLAB_URL" \
+ --tag-list debian,jessie,director
+```
+
+#### Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial)
+
+```sh
+# Package installation
+apt-get update -q -q
+apt-get install -y -q wget curl
+wget -q -O - http://packages.icinga.com/icinga.key | apt-key add -
+echo 'deb http://packages.icinga.com/ubuntu icinga-xenial main' > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/icinga.list
+curl -L https://packages.gitlab.com/install/repositories/runner/gitlab-ci-multi-runner/script.deb.sh | bash
+apt-get update -q -q
+DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get install --no-install-recommends -q -y \
+ php7.0-cli php7.0-mysql php7.0-pgsql php7.0-json php7.0-fpm phpunit zend-framework php-icinga \
+ mariadb-server mariadb-client postgresql postgresql-client postgresql-contrib-9.5 \
+ gitlab-ci-multi-runner
+
+# Zend Framework is not in our include_path
+ln -sf /usr/share/php/libzend-framework-php/Zend /usr/share/php/
+
+# Allow non-root users to use password-less root
+mysql -e "UPDATE mysql.user SET plugin = 'mysql_native_password' WHERE User='root'; FLUSH PRIVILEGES;"
+
+# Grant the gitlab-runner ident-based admin access
+su - postgres -c 'createuser -a -d gitlab-runner'
+
+# Register the runner with your Gitlab installation
+gitlab-ci-multi-runner register -n \
+ -r "$REGISTRATION_TOKEN" \
+ --executor shell \
+ -u "$GITLAB_URL" \
+ --tag-list ubuntu,xenial,director
+```
+
+A lot of work, sure. But it gives us a lot of confidence when shipping our
+software for various platforms.
+
+![Test results - History](screenshot/director/93_testing/933_director_testing_history.png)
+
+### Docker, Docker, Docker...
+
+Yes, yes, yes. In future we might eventually provide a similar solution based on
+Docker images. Working with throw-away containers seems to be overkill here, as
+tearing up those containers would waste much more resources than running the tests.
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