04. 06. 2018 Tobias Goller Icinga News, NetEye

NetEye 4 – First Installation Experiences

Over the last few weeks I’ve had the opportunity to install my first NetEye 4 at a customer site, and now I’d like to report to you about my experience. NetEye 4 comes with the Icinga2 monitoring engine, and we are using Icinga Director for managing the monitoring configuration. Obviously we have started to integrate all the additional wonderful NetEye 3 features into NetEye 4. At the moment the NagVis, NetEye Event Handler and Analytics (Influx with Grafana dashboards) modules are working. The very modern user interface that comes with Icinga2 is quite pleasing to our customers. Configuring monitoring through Director has also become more intuitive. I should note that the configuration process for Icinga2 must be carried out differently than in our existing NetEye 3 interface, and that this new process takes a bit of getting used to. With Director, it is easier to assign the various notifications and service templates to hosts. The new method is to use filtering expressions to assign notifications or service templates. Furthermore, you can define custom variables such as location, floor, type, operating version, etc., which will simplify assignment via your filters. From NetEye 4 on, we are going to use the Icinga monitoring agent, which has its own monitoring libraries, and the NSClient++ agent. Another customer-pleasing functionality is distributing Windows monitoring agents by using a dedicated PowerShell script. This new installation routine will give you the ability to have the agent automatically install itself on a server, and register that server with the monitoring server. It will even automatically define service checks for you that you specify. For user authentication, you can create local NetEye users, or use LDAP or Active Directory authentication. For the latter method, it is quite simple to integrate Active Directory groups for authentication with NetEye 4. And last but not least, from NetEye 4 onwards you will be able to log out of a server from within your monitoring application. Finally, I encourage you to follow the new improvements and features added to NetEye 4 by following our blog.
Tobias Goller

Tobias Goller

NetEye Solution Architect at Würth Phoenix
I started my professional career as a system administrator. Over the years, my area of responsibility changed from administrative work to the architectural planning of systems. During my activities at Würth Phoenix, the focus of my area of responsibility changed to the installation and consulting of the IT system management solution WÜRTHPHOENIX NetEye. In the meantime, I take care of the implementation and planning of customer projects in the area of our unified monitoring solution.

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Tobias Goller

I started my professional career as a system administrator. Over the years, my area of responsibility changed from administrative work to the architectural planning of systems. During my activities at Würth Phoenix, the focus of my area of responsibility changed to the installation and consulting of the IT system management solution WÜRTHPHOENIX NetEye. In the meantime, I take care of the implementation and planning of customer projects in the area of our unified monitoring solution.

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