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09. 01. 2015 Sandro Santinato NetEye

Reporting on SLAs with NetEye Reporting 2.0

Monitoring the service level agreements (SLAs) of your IT and reporting on them is indispensable to prove your IT’s business value. Setting, meeting, measuring and communicating your IT SLAs ensures the business understands the importance of the IT department. So choosing the right tool or solution to face this task is essential. So choosing the right tool to report on your SLAs is essential. Therefore, we significantly improved our NetEye Reporting Tool. See what’s new about creating, sharing, cloning, displaying, exporting … SLA reports.

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08. 01. 2015 Patrick Zambelli Downloads / Release Notes, Log Management, NetEye

Rsyslog open FileHandler control with SyslogView 2.1.8

To keep the number of open TCP connections of the Log Auditing server under control, the SyslogView version 2.1.8 contains a control in the daily archiviation script, to check the number of currently open connections. This issue could be found in particular situations, where SAFED or other Audit agents might send across a routing device …

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16. 12. 2014 Thomas Forrer NetEye

Eventhandler Replaces SNMP Traphandler

For the new release NetEye 3.5 we replaced the existing NetEye SNMP-Traphandler with the new so-called Eventhandler. When we previously where able just to handle snmp traps, we now can also handle e-mails, sms and logs. This list clearly isn’t a closed one – it can be extended to other types of events.

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10. 12. 2014 NetEye Blog Admin Events, NetEye, Service Management

Open Source Conference 2014 Milan: A Short Review

Also this year we took part in the new edition of the Open Source Conference, which took place the 26th november at Milan. Georg Kostner held his speech about IT System Management as strategic asset to improve the IT efficiency.

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30. 10. 2014 Thomas Forrer Asset Management, NetEye

OCS Inventory: Detect Software Installed at User Level

A new plugin for the OCS Inventory Agent allows to detect software installed at user level. We recently faced the problem of needing to detect user level installations of software on Windows operating systems. To resolve this, we’ve developed a plugin for the OCS Inventory agent.

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13. 10. 2014 Sandro Santinato NetEye, Real User Experience

RUE: Integration with LDAP

A new feature since version 1.8 of the “Real User Experience” (RUE) is the integration with your LDAP server, which helps you associating network requests to specific users. This is possible if you are monitoring services like the Microsoft Outlook WebApp, where the AD (Active Directory) username is part of the request. In this way…

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10. 10. 2014 Juergen Vigna NetEye, Unified Monitoring

Update of nagios-plugins package to version 1.4.16-7

– Fix check_snmp Multiplier conversion which did not see negative values or was not used when not having warning/critical values

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09. 10. 2014 Thomas Forrer Log Management, NetEye

NetEye: New MySQL Audit Plugin for SyslogView

In a standard MySQL setup, the logging of user logins/logouts is done by enabling the “general_log” logfile, which forces the MySQL process to log EVERYTHING. This can clearly produce bad performances under heavy load. To avoid such performance restrictions we added a new MySQL Audit Plugin to the Syslog View of NetEye.

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08. 10. 2014 Sandro Santinato NetEye, Real User Experience

Export/Schedule Reports using Command Line

So far exporting reports in CSV format was only possible through the web UI of the “Real User Experience” (RUE). Therefore scheduling report creation wasn’t possible. Now we added a new feature in the “Real User Experience”, which allows you to export reports using the command line. In this way you are able to schedule…

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02. 10. 2014 Thomas Forrer Log Management, Log-SIEM, NetEye

NetEye: Integration Logstash/Elasticsearch/Kibana

You probably already heard about Elasticsearch and its potential. Elasticsearch is a full-text search engine based on Lucene. It provides a RESTful web interface and schema-free JSON documents. To be able to better display logs collected by NetEye, we integrated three open source projects: Logstash, Elasticsearch and Kibana. Logstash parses logs and submits them to Elasticsearch, which saves them…

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26. 09. 2014 Thomas Forrer Downloads / Release Notes, NetEye

Package bash-3.2-33.el5.1 released fixing security bug (ShellShock CVE-2014-7169)

The updated package bash-3.2-33.el5.1 is now available in our stable repository. You can now safely update the bash executable using the following commands: # yum clean all # yum update bash

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04. 07. 2014 NetEye Blog Admin NetEye, Webinar

Nuovo NetEye training, 5-7 agosto 2014

Buongiorno a tutti, sono Patrick Zambelli, senior consultant NetEye presso Würth Phoenix. Dal 5 al 7 agosto organizziamo un training a Padova che è dedicato agli amministratori IT, che utilizzano NetEye o che hanno l’intenzione di usarlo. Le tematiche trattate saranno: Struttura e funzionalità di NetEye e Nagios Event handler Action Launchpad per l’esecuzione di…

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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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25. 06. 2014 Juergen Vigna NetEye

NetEye: Monitoring VMware vSphere performance using alarms

Monitoring a company’s virtual machines and hosts is essential to ensure high performance at all times. To monitor VMware VSphere, an appropriate benchmarking combined with alarm-based actions is required to avoid that the administrator misses the existence of possible performance issues or lack of capacity. Thanks to the well-running NetEye SNMP Trap Eventhandler, NetEye users…

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19. 06. 2014 Juergen Vigna Downloads / Release Notes, NetEye

Update of neteye-plugins package to version 1.11.1

The NetEye Plugins package has been updated with this changes: – Added new check_iftraffic.pl plugin which can do 64bit counters – Small bugfix for check_inventory and new option to exclude items in trash from GLPI check – Added check_hpasm for checking HP SIM Agent status – Small fix to detect also outdated XML files in…

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