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…
Read MoreOur NetEye Unified Monitoring Solution is distributed and maintained via ISO images and RPM Packages. In the past, we used the mrepo tool to manage our RPMs/ISO repositories, and during the current year we migrated to Pulp, as my colleague Andrea has already described. As an R&D team, we continuously release new features in development…
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 MoreSynopsis Critical: Icinga Web 2 security update Type/Severity Security Advisory: Critical Topic An update for Icinga Web 2 is now available for NetEye 4.12 and 4.13. NetEye Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Critical. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is…
Read MoreDeploying a NetEye Cluster If you regularly follow this blog, you know that we automatically generate and test a NetEye ISO every night. Starting from the ISO, we can also automatically provision a NetEye virtual machine in a VMware vSphere infrastructure. One might wonder, “What if, since I already have these two ingredients available, I…
Read MoreThis blog post describes the basic architecture of an Elasticsearch cluster. The deployment of a cluster is needed to provide high-availability and, whenever possible, to increase performance. NetEye 4’s clustering service is based on RedHat 7’s High Availability Clustering technologies: Corosync: Provides group communication between a set of nodes, application restart upon failure, and a quorum…
Read MoreNetEye 3.14 Release Notes Welcome to the latest version of our NetEye Unified Monitoring Solution that introduces an updated version of Grafana, customizable asset management import into monitoring, new profiles for Windows software in Monarch, and updated SMS gateway hardware. It also contains upgraded infrastructure for NetEye ITOA subscribers. Product: NetEye Release Number: 3.14 Release Date:…
Read MoreConsiderare l’Open Source per soluzioni di IT System Management come alternativa dettata solamente da costi più contenuti è ormai un concetto oltrepassato negli ambienti informatici. L’ Open Source infatti rappresenta oggi potenzialità e opportunità ben superiori e non più limitate ad un semplice fattore economico. Il 25 ottobre a Milano presso la Open Source Conference 2012,…
Read MoreThe monitoring of SAP environments requires the application of a specific strategy to access and verify key monitoring variables. SAP provides for this purpose a dedicated data interface – the CCMS interface. This is an open data-exchange interface allowing to communicate through an external source with the SAP-environment. For NetEye we have adapted the opensource…
Read MoreThe monitoring of SAP environments requires the application of a specific strategy to access and verify key monitoring variables. SAP provides for this purpose a dedicated data interface – the CCMS interface. This is an open data-exchange interface allowing to communicate through an external source with the SAP-environment. For NetEye we have adapted the opensource…
Read MoreThe monitoring of SAP environments requires the application of a specific strategy to access and verify key monitoring variables. SAP provides for this purpose a dedicated data interface – the CCMS interface. This is an open data-exchange interface allowing to communicate through an external source with the SAP-environment. For NetEye we have adapted the opensource…
Read MoreHard Disk health status monitoring Il continuo monitoraggio della situazione di salute del sistema e’ fondamentale per l’amministratore di sistema per individuare possibili problemi e per prevenire disservizi causati da hardware difettoso. Per questo e’ fondamentale definire appositi check per monitorare le infrastrutture utilizzate nella propria infrastruttura. Status del disco fisso Sistemi moderni permettono la…
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