Do you have a SIEM installation based on Elasticsearch (like the NetEye 4 SIEM Module) and are you sending data to it from your hosts? Then you’ll surely want to know whether your host is actually sending data, or if nothing is coming out at all. For this I made available a simple icinga/nagios plugin…
Read MoreThe event of the year, the NetEye User Group, is back! The User group is not only a chance to inform our customers about new products and releases, but also an occasion to meet and exchange feedback and ideas. This year the NetEye Usergroup took place in Rocca Sveva, a centuries old villa located in…
Read More…also this year, Würth Phoenix & Gravitate organized the annual Usergroup DACH 2023 in Nuremberg. The Usergroup is not only a chance to inform our customers about new products and releases, but also an occasion to meet and exchange feedback and ideas. This year’s NetEye Usergroup took place in Nuremberg in the Romantik Hotel Rottner,…
Read MoreIf you have a NetEye with SIEM Module activated or own an Elasticsearch installation then you have surely activated the Elasticsearch Snapshots to make backups of all your indexes (or at least the important ones). However you have to take a regular look at your Snapshots Reports to check that everything is working correctly. I…
Read MoreScenario Veritas Backup Exec is widely used for the backup of physical machines through local installed agents both on Windows and Linux hosts. It also supports application backup for Microsoft Exchange, SharePoint and several different Database engines, with the option of a granular application data restore. The product additionally supports virtual backup through Hyper-V and…
Read MoreRules and standards are important. In a world based on collaboration, following a well defined behavior is key for avoiding errors based on some sort of misunderstanding. This is also true for the world of information technology: someone releases software that is incomplete by design, and then leaves the completion of it to the people…
Read MoreDirector is one of the most important modules in NetEye 4 because it’s used for managing, automating and deploying the configurations of all monitored objects. In all our projects we use automation in Director: through the Import and Synchronization rules we can automate many operations such as the import and synchronization of hosts, service checks,…
Read MoreAs you have surely read from the release notes of NetEye 4.27, we have integrated ClickHouse to be able to use the historical flows and alerts feature of ntopng. What is ClickHouse? Directly from the official website: ClickHouse is a column-oriented database management system (DBMS) for online analytical processing of queries (OLAP). ClickHouse’s performance exceeds…
Read MoreLast time I wrote about how you can have incoming SMS messages sent to the Tornado Engine so that you can make Tornado Rules to process them. This time I’d like to show you a real use case where we check whether the SMS Gateway is really working or not by sending an SMS to…
Read MoreThe event of the year, the NetEye User Group, is back again, in presence! The User group is not only a chance to inform our customers about new products and releases, but also an occasion to meet and exchange feedback and ideas. This year’s NetEye User group took place in the beautiful city of Verona…
Read MoreIt-sa is Europe’s largest trade fair for IT security… and we were there! This fair has taken place in Nuremberg since 2009, and is the meeting point for all decision makers and experts in IT security. It’s the #placetobe for all those searching for security solutions and for learning from major experts in the field. …
Read MoreAfter two years of online events, we finally made it to organize a live event in Germany! And it was a huge success! The Usergroup is not only a chance to inform our customers about new products and releases, but also an occasion to meet and exchange feedback and ideas. This year’s NetEye Usergroup took…
Read MoreWith the end of 2021 we’ve release the first version of the NetEye Extension Packs project that helps customers and consultants on their monitoring implementations and more (see Introducing NetEye Extension Packs | www.neteye-blog.com for details). Now our focus is to extend the ouf of box infrastructure coverage of our monitoring plugins. With this target…
Read MoreSometimes you’d just really like to have an overview of what happens to the Events that flow through Tornado. Where do they come from? Did they get stuck somewhere in the Collectors or in Tornado? Which Tornado Actions did they trigger? Gathering all this information from hundreds of log lines across different services (i.e., Tornado…
Read MoreWhen I’m running a service which processes a lot of data, sooner or later I start to wonder: what is the service doing? What data is it processing? This also applies to our event processor Tornado. For the Tornado Engine, the administrator may wonder for example how many events Tornado is receiving, how many actions…
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