Feature: Adds repository management

[LordHepipud]

Icinga for Windows installation and configuration can be very complex, even though way to complicated because there are plenty of different sources available you can download files from.

The repository managmenet will make things easier, as you can provide single entry points containing all your components for installation.

[lukas2511]

Just out of pure curiosity: Why aren't you simply using winget?

[stevie-sy]

Sounds interesting. Especially since you can add your own repos from diffrent (own) location 👍 .

What would be interesting here is to include a check-cmdlet for checking the installed versions (e.g. like (Get-Module -Name icinga-powershell-framework).Version from the installed ps module versions. Comparable with the icinga-check, where you can check for the minimum version from the installed agent. With this you'll see easy if an auto deployment was fine etc.

[LordHepipud]

Thanks for the feedback!

@lukas2511: Because winget is deployed starting with Windows 11 and Windows Server 2022 and there are still many customers using Windows 2012 R2, 2016 and 2019. By providing this solution ourselfs, we do not rely on external components and it is hard enough to get the Icinga Agent installed on most systems. I really do not want to discuss to install a package manager on those servers. In addition, trying to get winget to install even on Windows 2019 is pure pain at the moment, as all dependencies are not available directly and have to be downloaded on some website from the MS Store. winget might be an option in the next 5 years, but not as of today.

@stevie-sy: There is already a command available to print versions on the CLI directly and all information for creating issues/support cases: Show-Icinga. All data is available for a check-plugin already and will be implemented with 1.6.0 as overall health information. 😄