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<p>Thanks for choosing Icinga! Icinga is quite powerful and flexible and although you can see the first results
in less than 30 minutes, this is just the beginning of your journey into system monitoring. Configuring it to your needs can
take a lot of work depending on the number of things to be monitored and the complexity of your environment. Once you become
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