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18. 12. 2020 Juergen Vigna Log Management, Log-SIEM, NetEye

Monitor Microsoft Exchange Logs Using NetEye 4 Log Management

So you have a Microsoft Exchange mail server infrastructure and want full control over it using the NetEye 4 Log Management module? Yes, you can do that. An Exchange server writes out various log files: MessageTracking Imap4/Pop3 Smtp IIS logs To be able to send these logs to NetEye you have to install the Filebeat…

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09. 11. 2020 Juergen Vigna APM, NetEye

Using Sahi Pro on and with NetEye 4

What is Sahi Pro? Sahi Pro is a suite of mature, business-ready tools for the automated testing of Web, Web services, Mobile, Windows Desktop, SAP GUI and Java applications. For testing teams who need rapid and reliable automation, Sahi Pro would be the best choice among automation tools. Integration with NetEye 4 For those who…

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22. 07. 2020 Juergen Vigna NetEye

Updating NetEye 4 Using ‘neteye upgrade’ with a Proxy

In NetEye 4.11 the neteye upgrade command was introduced and has to be used when updating to the next release. Now, everything is all well and good if you have direct access to the Internet from your NetEye 4 server, but if you have to use a proxy to update your servers then the procedure…

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29. 04. 2020 Juergen Vigna NetEye

Adding a Node to a DRBD Device with Wrong max-peers

What is DRBD? DRBD is a distributed replicated storage system for the Linux platform. It is implemented as a kernel driver, several user-space management applications, and some shell scripts.  DRBD is traditionally used in high availability (HA) computer clusters, but beginning with DRBD version 9, it can also be used to create larger software defined storage pools with…

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23. 03. 2020 Juergen Vigna NetEye, Unified Monitoring

Monitoring iSeries Hosts with NetEye

Last week I had to implement monitoring checks for a customer’s host running an IBM iSeries server. As the monitoring for that is a bit particular, I’d like to share what I did, and also share with you an Icinga2 Basket containing the monitoring structure. Where to Find the Necessary Files You may download the…

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17. 12. 2019 Juergen Vigna NetEye, Predictive Analysis, Unified Monitoring

Monitor Cluster Disk Space with Icinga2

The Problem If you’re trying to monitor a Microsoft Cluster, you’ll surely want to monitor the disk space of a single cluster service. In this case there’s a problem with Icinga2 Agent:  you can’t use it with more than one IP address.  So you can’t simultaneously monitor the resources of the “physical” host and a…

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13. 12. 2019 Juergen Vigna Log-SIEM, NetEye, Unified Monitoring

Securing scp/sftp Access to Your Centos7/Redhat7 Server

Sometimes you just need to temporarily grant access to a user to copy some files to your server. But no user should have access to the shell. For sftp this is quite simple (see below), but for scp it’s not that trivial. Also, you probably want to set the user up in a directory with…

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10. 12. 2019 Juergen Vigna Business Service Monitoring, NetEye, Unified Monitoring

Monitoring Automation, or Orchestrating Your Monitoring over Your CMDB

In every Enterprise, that extra step you need to master for monitoring is always a bit problematic. Normally, the people doing monitoring or who are responsible for the monitoring infrastructure are different from those doing daily administrative work on the server infrastructure. Most of the time, new servers are up and running much sooner than…

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02. 10. 2019 Juergen Vigna ITOA, NetEye

An Overview of Your VMware Environment

Do you have a NetEye server, and want to monitor your VMware ESXi Infrastructure? Nothing easier than that using the InfluxDB and Grafana Modules of NetEye, along with a Telegraf agent to deliver the data into Influx. Starting with version 1.6.x of Telegraf, there’s a plugin for querying for data from a vSphere server, but…

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21. 11. 2018 Juergen Vigna ITOA, NetEye, Predictive Analysis, Unified Monitoring

Manage the Performance of your MSSQL Databases

So you have MSSQL databases and you’d like to keep an eye on the performance of your DB.  Using NetEye this is quite easy.  The  tools you need are already available on your NetEye server:  InfluxDB, the Telegraf agent, and Grafana for visualizing your Dashboards. The SQL Server Input Plugin provides metrics for your SQL…

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24. 07. 2018 Juergen Vigna NetEye, Unified Monitoring

Check Your Exchange Server Status

If you have an Exchange Server and want to check its status, Exchange has a PowerShell API just for this.  Check out this zip file exchange-serverhealth, which includes a powershell script to put on your Exchange Server and a “Monarch” Service Profile that you can import into your NetEye Monarch Monitoring Configuration Application. On your…

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24. 07. 2018 Juergen Vigna NetEye, Unified Monitoring

Total Control Over Your Citrix User Connections

Do you have Citrix or Windows RDP servers, and your users keep calling you because of problems?  The first problem is to see which server the user was connected to.  I solved this problem by monitoring the user connections on Windows Terminal Servers (including Citrix Servers), so that you know how many users are connected…

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07. 03. 2018 Juergen Vigna Log Management, NetEye

Analyze your OpenLDAP Logs

Suppose you have an OpenLDAP Server and you want to analyze what it does.  A good way to do this is to send the logs to NetEye’s LogServer.  Some elements you will see include: – Returned Entries! (ENTRY) – Search Operations! (SEARCH) – Total Connections! (BIND) To do this you need to add a new…

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07. 02. 2018 Juergen Vigna Log Management, Log-SIEM, NetEye

Harmonize Your Monitoring with Your Elasticsearch Database Entries

If you have an Elasticsearch Database like the one in the NetEye Elastic Stack Module then you are surely interested in integrating this information into your Monitoring environment.  To do this, use this new plugin: check_elasticsearch_query # /data/neteye/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/local/check_elasticsearch_query –help Check a count of number of events fount in elasticsearch over a query and timeframe Usage:…

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07. 11. 2017 Juergen Vigna Uncategorized

Monitoren sie Ihren XtremIO EMC Storage

Sie haben eine XtremIO Dell EMC Storage und möchten sie gerne überwachen, dann habe ich das richtige dafür. Vor nicht allzu langer Zeit habe ich ein Monitoring Plugin für XtremIO Storages geschrieben. Was kann dieses Plugin: XTREMIO_CTRL_Status: Damit überwachen sie die Kontroller und sehen den Status der Hardware XTREMIO_DPG_Status: Damit überwachen sie ihre DPG Gruppen…

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