Scenario Secure Boot was always a long bet on the idea that the PC boot chain could be made boring, predictable, and resistant to tampering. When UEFI replaced the old BIOS model, Microsoft and the PC industry moved toward a world where firmware would check signatures before handing control to bootloaders, option ROMs, and operating…
Read MoreScenario Veeam Backup is widely used as backup software, especially on virtual VMware vSphere infrastructure. Together with the new version 13 of the product, the SAML Single Sign On (SSO) feature was introduced, which can be used to protect administrative access to the Veeam Backup console by delegating the admin authentication to an external Identity…
Read MoreScenario Power BI Report Server is widely used in company environments, where typically several Windows servers with different roles are deployed in an OnPremise Active Directory domain. In this blog, I’ll describe how to configure user single sign-on access to a Power BI Report Server: the underlying protocol for authentication will be Kerberos and its…
Read MoreScenario TPS (Transparent Page Sharing) is a proprietary functionality in VMware ESX(i) which essentially does deduplication of memory pages used for virtual machines. Identical memory content across multiple machines thus only consumes memory once. When you have multiple virtual machines with the same guest operating system running, there’s a high chance of identical content which…
Read MoreScenario Windows has provided Remote Desktop functionality for a very long time. A lot of companies use this feature to build up a remote Desktop Farm and then let people run programs remotely, which can be very useful when going over a WAN connection with high latency. Starting with Windows Server 2012, Microsoft added the…
Read MoreScenario Dynamics 365 Finance & Operations (On-Premises) is an ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) solution which can be deployed on physical or virtual servers. It’s the right solution for Companies that don’t want to store their personal data in the Azure cloud. The ERP architecture requires the configuration of a standalone Service Fabric which is connected…
Read MoreScenario NetEye 4 provides a graphical engine to represent time series monitoring data stored in an Influx database: the Grafana engine accessible through the ITOA menu on the left hand side. Grafana is very powerful: it consists of a dashboard built up of multiple individual panels. A lot of them are native to Grafana, but…
Read MoreScenario GLPI is integrated into NetEye and provides powerful asset management solutions. Usually GLPI agents are deployed on servers and clients: this way an up-to-date asset inventory is kept within NetEye. The GLPI package also provides a tool able to perform network SNMP scans, detecting for example network printers, switches, and routers, as well as…
Read MoreScenario NetEye 4 is a comprehensive monitoring platform which natively supports Business Processes. A Business Process is an abstract view of a customer’s business from the Application point of view. Usually, it’s a collection of Icinga 2 checks aggregated by “AND, OR, At Least” logic in order to monitor whether a Business Application is really…
Read MoreScenario NetEye 4 is a comprehensive monitoring platform which natively supports Business Processes. A Business Process is an abstract view of a customer’s Business from the Application point of view. Usually, it’s a collection of Icinga2 checks aggregated by “AND, OR, At Least” logics in order to monitor if a Business Application is really available…
Read MoreScenario NetEye 4 is a comprehensive monitoring platform which natively supports Icinga 2 checks on remote hosts and devices. Several Icinga 2 checks support an historical view of the status. An example is the firewall interface performance status below, which displays a Performance Graph: Getting a better overview All the graph data generated by the…
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 MoreScenario Veeam Backup & Replication product is widely used for backuping virtual machines, primary hosted on VMware vSphere infrastructure. It could also backup physical machines through dedicated agents. It’s very important to keep the backup status monitored: it would be nice to get the backup status through the Icinga2 agent in an easy way. PowerShell…
Read MoreScenario In this blog I’ll describe some advanced features of the DSC platform in order to automate the configuration of the monitoring agents. I’ve already described the basic topics in the first part of this blog: Installing and Configuring Monitoring Agents in a Windows Domain – Part 1 But just as a quick reminder, DSC…
Read MoreITOA ITOA is the NetEye component which represents time series data using the Grafana graphics engine. Data is usually collected by Telegraf agents and stored into an InfluxDB specialized non-relational database. Flux In order to manipulate the time series data, Grafana usually adopted a relational language: InfluxQL. The relational approach has had a number of…
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