In this article I’ll talk about Icinga DSL and how it can be extremely useful if you want to compute thresholds. Our goal today is to be able to change certain monitoring thresholds when some parameters change. Example The example I propose is the following: I’m a system administrator, and I would like the warning…
Read MoreAn RPM (RedHat Package Manager) package is the file format used by RHEL and CentOS, and their package manager yum (now called dnf). Since NetEye is based on CentOS, we use this standard package manager for distribution. How an RPM is constructed is defined in so-called spec files. In this blog post I’m going to…
Read MoreDistributing software content and making it available to users is not an easy task. First, you can have many different types of content like RPMs, ISO files, Python packages, and so on and so forth. And then, repositories often change. In the R&D team, we’re always implementing new features and fixing bugs, which in other…
Read MoreBeginning with GLPI version 0.83 a very useful plugin to record SIM card data was available. The plugin was created by Walid Nouh and then updated by Anthony Piesset and Thierry Bugier Pineau, and was very convenient for keeping track of company SIM card data. In addition to the specific data of the SIM like…
Read MoreIn the last few weeks, we collaborated with the Icinga2 developers to create a new powerful API, called “Execute Command“. The main purpose of this new API is to execute specific commands on a node by sending the request to the parent node. This is useful when the user cannot reach the desired node (an…
Read MoreWe fixed an issue related to the eventhandler/icinga2 cluster resources relocation. For NetEye 4.13 we updated: icinga2* packages to version 2.11.5_neteye1.21.1-1
Read MoreAs already mentioned in my previous Blog Post, I would like to present our Design System project, based completely on Vue.js. It’s not just a modern UI component library. The whole purpose of a Design System is to define the design principles, style guide, patterns, content tone, and the rules and specifications of “reusable” components….
Read MoreWe fixed an issue in the Log Analytics GUI (Kibana) that was caused from a URL change. If the user saved a bookmark for a dashboard, the link was not working anymore. Now the old links are working again. For NetEye 4.13 we updated: icingaweb2-module-kibana and icingaweb2-module-kibana-autosetup to version 1.10.2-2 neteye-setup to version 1.55.0-2
Read MoreDear EriZone customers! Some of your EriZone VMs are still working on CentOS 6, which will reach its End of Life on November 30th, 2020. This means that no new security or bugfix updates will be released after this date. You can check this by running the command: rpm -q centos-release which will tell you…
Read MoreWe fixed an issue in the Tornado GUI, for which it was possible to create and deploy a Filter with a space in the name from the GUI, which would cause Tornado to fail to restart. For NetEye 4.13 we updated: tornado, tornado-autosetup, tornado-common, tornado-neteye-config, tornado-rsyslog-collector-logmanager to version 0.39.8-1 icingaweb2-module-tornado, icingaweb2-module-tornado-autosetup to version 0.22.3-1
Read MoreWe fixed an issue in the neteye_secure_install, causing the configuration of a wrong password for the pkcs12 bundle of the NATS client used by the Tornado Icinga2 Collector. For NetEye 4.13 we updated: tornado, tornado-autosetup, tornado-common, tornado-neteye-config, tornado-rsyslog-collector-logmanager to version 0.39.7-2
Read MoreScenario It’s quite typical to have several managed Windows Servers joined to a Windows Active Directory Domain. But how do you handle the automated installation and configuration of the monitoring agents? How do you keep them up to date? DSC Framework: A Potential Native Solution DSC (Desired State Configuration) is a management platform in PowerShell…
Read MoreIn order to protect your business against cyber attacks you need to both harden your systems and promptly detect suspicious activities in your infrastructure. Sigma is an open source project which defines specifications for a standard signature format that allows you to describe relevant log events for security purposes. The Sigma rules language is intended…
Read MoreWith this bugfix release, we fixed a an issue causing tornado to crash when opening more than 1024 files . For NetEye 4.13 we updated: tornado, tornado-autosetup, tornado-common, tornado-neteye-config, tornado-rsyslog-collector-logmanager to version 0.39.6-1
Read MoreWith this bugfix release, we fixed a wrong setting that caused, in cluster environments, an inconsistency in the configuration of the icingaweb2 group across the cluster nodes. For NetEye 4.13 we updated: icingacli icingaweb2-selinux icingaweb2-vendor-Parsedown icingaweb2 icingaweb2-vendor-dompdf icingaweb2-vendor-zf1 icingaweb2-autosetup icingaweb2-vendor-HTMLPurifier php-Icinga icingaweb2-common icingaweb2-vendor-JShrink icingaweb2-devel icingaweb2-vendor-lessphp to version 2.7.3_neteye1.73.3-1
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