As you may already know from our other blog posts, Würth Phoenix is an official partner of the German company SOS Berlin, the creator of the SOS JobScheduler. In our role as partner, we not only resell the JobScheduler solution, but also offer consulting activities for SOS JobScheduler implementations, sizing and so on. Today I…
Read MoreBefore I tell you about one of my latest customer requirements, I would like to briefly explain what our NetEye Tornado module is. In our user guide you will see it written that Tornado is the successor to NetEye’s Event Handler. It is a plugin-based, stateless, scalable rule matching engine written in Rust, based on…
Read MoreSome time ago I was able to use the machine learning functionality in Elastic for the first time. I was astonished at how easy it is to use, and how fast it calculates historical data. In my particular case, I loaded Netflow data into the Elastic database. I wanted to use this data to evaluate…
Read MoreEver since they began using Grafana Dashboards in the NetEye monitoring system, my customers have asked again and again whether they can create PDF files of what they see on their Grafana Dashboards. This request must be understood clearly. The use of Grafana dashboards by IT staff is very popular, for reasons such as its…
Read MoreThe new challenge for monitoring solutions is to monitor infrastructure, software, and platforms that run in the cloud, or that are outsourced. The various contract models with cloud providers/outsourcers no longer focus on infrastructure monitoring, such as monitoring the fans or power supply in a physical server, but rather the availability and performance of applications,…
Read MoreDue to the very positive customer feedback on our extended MSSQL performance monitoring article, I would like to briefly highlight this functionality. We have been implementing systems for MSSQL performance monitoring for a long time, offered either as a managed IT service, or on-premise depending on the requirements. Previously, we recorded and evaluated counters such…
Read MoreAs you all know, NetEye 4 is offered as an appliance or virtual machine. But today I want to talk about cloud and managed IT services using NetEye 4. As a foreword I would just like to briefly explain what managed IT services are: A managed IT service is a solution that is delivered by…
Read MoreWith the release of NetEye 4, we have also redesigned the Log Management module. In this blog post I would like to briefly discuss the main innovations and improvements in NetEye 4 Log Management. First, the management and configuration interface of NetEye 4 Log Manager appears in the unified NetEye 4 layout. Basically, it has…
Read MoreOver the last few weeks I’ve had the opportunity to install my first NetEye 4 at a customer site, and now I’d like to report to you about my experience. NetEye 4 comes with the Icinga2 monitoring engine, and we are using Icinga Director for managing the monitoring configuration. Obviously we have started to integrate…
Read MoreIn recent weeks I had the opportunity to test the release candidate of the new NetEye BP API. This new API allows you to create and update NetEye Business Processes over the Perl API. Especially when used in large NetEye environments, it was often difficult to create a large number of business processes by hand…
Read MoreJobScheduler is an Open Source solution for enterprise-level workload automation. It is used to launch executable files and shell scripts, and to run database procedures automatically. JobScheduler stores all information in a back-end database management system. As you may know, Würth Phoenix is an official partner of the German company SOS Berlin, the creator of…
Read MoreAfter deploying and configuring F5 network gear in your company, your next step will be to monitor these new devices. Depending on your monitoring solution, integrating your F5 network equipment can range from simple to complex. Maybe you need to search around for the various MIB files to get the optimal monitoring parameters, or perhaps…
Read MoreMore and more often I’ve needed to integrate an Oracle Exadata system with NetEye Monitoring. The Oracle Exadata Database Machine is a combined compute and storage system marketed for running Oracle Database software. The best way to integrate the Oracle Exadata system is to use SNMP Trap alerting. Then, it depends on your particular Oracle…
Read MoreMore and more often I’ve needed to integrate an Oracle Exadata system with NetEye Monitoring. The Oracle Exadata Database Machine is a combined compute and storage system marketed for running Oracle Database software. The best way to integrate the Oracle Exadata system is to use SNMP Trap alerting. Then, it depends on your particular Oracle…
Read MoreSempre più spesso ho incontrato la necessità di integrare il monitoraggio di NetEye con Oracle Exadata, un sistema combinato di calcolo e archiviazione per il database Oracle stesso. Il modo migliore per l’integrazione consiste nell’utilizzare gli allarmi generati dalle SNMP Trap. Quindi, dipende dalla vostra installazione di Oracle. Se si utilizza il sistema Exadata, è possibile…
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