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30. 03. 2022 Davide Gallo NetEye, Unified Monitoring

Log off an RDP User Session through the NetEye Command Orchestrator Part 2

In our previous post we discussed how to handle RD users using CMDO, focusing on the scripts needed to obtain a unique identifier for each users in the RD Farm. In this post I want to focus on how to create the CMDO commands and set their permissions correctly. Our user caseAs an admin I…

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29. 03. 2022 Davide Sbetti Machine Learning, NetEye

Data Exploration in Kibana: from a Simple Visualization to Anomaly Detection

These days we live in a data-driven world, where the collection and analysis of data empowers not only companies but also individuals to plan future actions based on the information that is extracted. NetEye enables both the collection and analysis of an enormous amount of data using various platforms, such as Kibana, for data written…

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29. 03. 2022 Charles Callaway Documentation

Making Your Own Tutorials, Part 7: Script Delivery

You might remember from the last post in my series on creating video tutorials that we talked about improving the quality of picture-in-picture video tutorials. I broke it down into two parts, the background and the presenter, with this summary for the latter: What’s realistically the most natural way you can present yourself in the…

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28. 03. 2022 Damiano Chini Bug Fixes, NetEye

Bug Fixes for NetEye 4.22

We fixed a bug for which the healthcheck 00400_local_neteye_target_services_are_disabled was failing on NetEye Satellites due to some services enabled by default on the NetEye Satellites. The healthcheck now does not control the state of such services on Satellites. For NetEye 4.22 we updated the following packages: neteye-setup to version 1.83.4-1

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25. 03. 2022 Damiano Chini Bug Fixes, NetEye

Bug Fixes for NetEye 4.22

We fixed a bug for which the healthcheck 01220_telegraf_retention_policy_set was failing on NetEye Satellites. The healthcheck is now skipped on Satellites. For NetEye 4.22 we updated the following packages: icingaweb2-module-analytics, icingaweb2-module-analytics-autosetup to version 1.48.3-1

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22. 03. 2022 Mattia Codato ctf-writeups, Development

CTF Insomni’hack Teaser 2022 ─ Vault Challenge

On January 29th, I attended my first CTF (capture the flag) competition: the Insomni’hack teaser.Based on my skills, I decided to go for the challenge called Vault which consists of a web-based vault of five pages: a home page, one where you can see the key/value pair you entered after logging in, a page for…

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22. 03. 2022 Tobias Goller Icinga Web 2, Machine Learning, NetEye

Performance Metrics Collection from NetEye to Elastic

Today my objective is to collect the performance metrics from various NetEye Icinga checks and write them out to Elasticsearch so I can apply Machine Learning (ML) algorithms to identify potential anomalies. This is a task that’s not possible with the open-source version of InfluxDB installed in NetEye. Moreover, this data in Elastic is used…

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22. 03. 2022 Juergen Vigna ITOA, NetEye, Unified Monitoring

Monitoring Fortigate Firewall SLA Trackers

Recently a customer told me he would like to monitor and graph the values that his Fortigate Firewall was generating for his configured SLA Trackers. What are these SLA Trackers? I informed myself and found the following in a Fortigate Cookbook. Fortigate Performance SLA ─ Link Monitoring Performance SLA link monitoring measures the health of…

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18. 03. 2022 Gabriele Cecco Asset Management

Jira Discovery: a quick way to manage your assets

Are you a user of Jira Service Management Cloud, do you have the premium version and would you like to use the discovery tool to have a scheme where you can automatically receive updates on devices connected to your network? Well, follow this very simple tutorial and you will have a mapping of your network…

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16. 03. 2022 William Calliari Bug Fixes, NetEye

Bug Fixes for NetEye 4.22

We added a default Retention Policy for the Telegraf databases. The default Retention Policy can be enabled and configured in the Icingaweb2 Modules Settings under: Configuration > Modules > analytics > Configuration. For NetEye 4.22 we updated the following packages: icingaweb2-module-analytics, icingaweb2-module-analytics-autosetup to version 1.48.2-1

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15. 03. 2022 Alessandro Valentini Bug Fixes, Log-SIEM, NetEye

Bug Fixes for NetEye 4.22

We fixed a wrong behaviour which causes neteye satellite config create to do not work when executed with –tenant parameter. For NetEye 4.22 we updated the following packages: elasticsearch, elasticsearch-autosetup, elasticsearch-neteye-config, filebeat, filebeat-autosetup, filebeat-neteye-config, apm-server, apm-server-autosetup, apm-server-neteye-config, kibana, kibana-autosetup, kibana-neteye-config, logstash, logstash-autosetup, logstash-neteye-config to version 7.15.0_neteye3.37.2-1

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14. 03. 2022 Rocco Pezzani NetEye, Unified Monitoring

Hosts, Zones and Broken Icinga 2 Configurations

During my experience as a Würth Phoenix consultant, I’ve seen a pretty long list of broken Icinga 2 configurations. Several times, customers have begun a scheduled meeting with something like “Hey mister consultant, ever since the last deploy some objects have stopped being monitored, but I don’t see any errors!”. After some troubleshooting, everything always…

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14. 03. 2022 Tobias Goller Unified Monitoring

SOS Berlin JobScheduler – JS7

As is by now almost a tradition, this year I am again writing a blog post about the SOS JobScheduler. In this blog I’d like to introduce you to some major changes and improvements to the SOS Berlin JobScheduler. As has already been officially announced on the SOS Berlin website, beginning with Release 2.0.0 the…

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11. 03. 2022 Benjamin Gröber Development

How to tackle uncertainty during development

Uncertainty is an inherent part of the complex domain of software development. To reduce uncertainty, we made it a part of our custom agile software development methodology. We plan the next sprint for each team by picking the top-most items from the backlog and giving a rough estimate. However, sometimes a new feature request is…

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11. 03. 2022 Enrico Alberti Log-SIEM, NetEye

NetEye for Data Protection Officers

With NetEye 4.22 we released a feature awaited for years: the ability to reach the Elasticsearch API externally, thanks to our NGINX proxy under NetEye. This new feature brings with it a lot of use cases, but what was turning over and over in my head was the automatic process for verification of the blockchains…

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