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02. 09. 2014 Patrick Zambelli Unified Monitoring

Windows Drive Size Monitoring unit changes in Performance Graph

This tecnical documentation should highlight an issue you may find when monitoring a Drive on a Windows machine. The value of occupied space is reported as perfdata and interpreted by the perfgraph. The result is a graph showing the occupational situation of the partition. The issue I am describing, may occur when the partition grows…

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30. 06. 2014 Patrick Zambelli Asset Management, NetEye

Automatic Recognition: Network Devices and their Modules

NetEye 3.5 will permit you the automatic recognition and administration of all your network devices. Through the implementation of an interface between the two existing modules GLPI (asset management solution within NetEye) and NeDi (network discovery) we were able to facilitate the overall asset management. This interface was realized as a standard GLPI Plugin. So…

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21. 05. 2014 Patrick Zambelli NetEye

New Shut Down Management module in NetEye 3.5

In the new NetEye version 3.5 that will be shortly released, it has been implemented the Shut Down Management module that allows to configure automatic shutdown procedures in a data center. I’ll try now to provide a simple example to let you understand the potentiality and the necessity of this feature. For example if there…

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25. 11. 2013 Patrick Zambelli NetEye

Java Application Monitoring

Modern Java application servers can be a complex construct of services and business logic. It is not possible to monitor them through conventional ways, like checking if a process is running. Within a Java application server multiple components are bundled together, to hold logic and provide intelligence for the application. For everyone who has some…

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18. 09. 2013 Patrick Zambelli NetEye, Unified Monitoring

Job Execution control with new ActionLaunchpad features

The project of integrating the control of Job execution on remote As400 systems was introduced by my colleague in this article. A job process check verifies the number of executing jobs and more important: the failed Jobs. A next step of this project consisted in the implementation of a control panel, that can be used…

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25. 06. 2013 Patrick Zambelli Log Management

SyslogView: Windows Eventlog integration into the MessageConsole

The SyslogView module is the log and events collector for activities on remote hosts. Log messages or Eventlog entries of a Microsoft server are collected with this tool and stored for later auditing or search. A recent customer request was to make these incoming events more transparent for monitoring. What if the remote SAFED agent…

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13. 06. 2013 Patrick Zambelli Downloads / Release Notes

Nagios BusinessProcess 1.0.6-0.9.6

With the introduction of the latest features of the Business Process module in NetEye 3.4 a BP Services provedes the following perfdata graphs: Availability: Graph showing the status OK – NOK of a servcie Status: The exit code of the graph ( OK, Warning, Unknown, Critical ) Services: The total number of services within a…

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13. 06. 2013 Patrick Zambelli Downloads / Release Notes

NetEye SyslogView 2.0.11

For some system settings the date returned from the PGP key was not formatted in the EN-US format and the Syslog validation check gives a negative result. The message is that the signature is valid and the file was not altered, but the date of the signature is not clear. This fix addes an export…

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10. 06. 2013 Patrick Zambelli Downloads / Release Notes

Message Console 2.0.5 – Configuration Submit

This fix version 2.0.5 corrects the submit behavior of the “Configuration” tab. – No results view after the write of the host- and service templates – No post after contact-group assignment / unassignment.

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05. 06. 2013 Patrick Zambelli Downloads / Release Notes, NetEye

Update Action Launchpad 1.4.3

With the enhancement release of the Action Launchpad version 1.4 a new DB authorization policy had been introduced. In this way also the Mysql permissions of user “nagios” had been cut. Since the cron Job Scheduler is running under this user, a permission denied was given for the Cron job itself. With this version also…

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15. 03. 2013 Patrick Zambelli Downloads / Release Notes, Log Management

SyslogView Fix release 2.0.8 – Search 1.2.6

– Added additional Syslog Agent definition for every supported operating system. Each additional definition is customizable and provides compatibility towards older versions of SAFED before 1.6 and possible custom port and communication settings. – FIX: The Syslog Search Statistic:  ( configuration -> search ) is not showing the indexing statistic. – FIX: Syslog Search Statistic:…

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07. 02. 2013 Patrick Zambelli Downloads / Release Notes

Neteye-Plugins Fix Release 1.2.5-3

Update Packages of NetEye added Nagios Plugins: check_inventory.pl: GLPI and OCS duplicate items scan and results output improvements check_snmp_IBM_Bladecenter.pl: The “Critical” – Status has been detected correctly, but the overall Exit code has not been set correctly for some problems. check_iperf: Set the default -A parameter to 300 ( 5 Minutes ). This is the…

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22. 01. 2013 Patrick Zambelli Downloads / Release Notes, Log Management

SyslogView Fix release 2.0.7

This release contains a minor fix in case the Rsyslog Server creates a log file without any content. This very uncommon situation was leading in the syslog – parser process to a warning – notified via email – that a zero division occurred since there are no rows of logs to parse. Details of the…

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15. 11. 2012 Patrick Zambelli Downloads / Release Notes, Log Management

SyslogView Fix release 2.0.6

A new SyslogView FIX version has been released to correct the centralized SAFED configuration parameter “number of cache files”.

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25. 10. 2012 Patrick Zambelli NetEye, Unified Monitoring

CheckPoint Firewall Hardware Monitoring

In addition to the check_snmp_cpfw.pl where you can keep control of active connections, the Secure Virtual Network or the HA status I wanted to keep track of the basic hardware conditions of CP devices. For this I’ve extended the check_snmp_environment.pl ( check_snmp_environment.pl.tar ) adding in addition to other platforms also the SNMP support for CheckPoint firewalls….

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