Why does my local network latency increase during working hours?
Sometimes you get a higher network latency during certain periods of the day.
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Visual Synthetic Monitoring
Release of Alyvix 2.3 Carnera New features to automate and measure application transactions [if you are not familiar with Alyvix, please have a look at the info-box at the bottom of this article] The new Alyvix master release 2.3 comes up with some major enhancements such as controllable precision and accuracy, more detailed reports and new performance…
Read MoreAutomatic Network Management – A Challenging Goal
Würth Phoenix – Research News Currently researchers around the world are competing to bring automatic network management to the next level. Würth-Phoenix S.r.l. has recently released a dataset and is currently organizing one of this year’s ECML-PKDD discovery challenges together with The H2020 EU 5G-Cognet project and the University of Trento. The challenge consists in…
Read MoreIT Orchestration in NetEye: Enable locked user account from Action Launchpad
The IT Orchestration module ( also known as Action Launchpad ) comes with the purpose to simplify IT service operations. Operations can be configured within command calls that can be granted to users of your Service Operations Center. The module Action Launchpad allows to define command configurations to be called on request and job schedule…
Read MoreNetwork Performance Monitoring: Port Mirroring vs. Network TAPs vs. Hardware Timestamp
Monitoring network traffic was initially used only for highlighting the typology of network traffic and the quantity of packages/bites broadcasted. This information are important to analyze anomalies, to optimize flows (balance network traffic) and to size the infrastructure.
Read MoreMonitoring Agent deployment: NSClient++.MSI
Nsclient++ is a very popular open-source agent for monitoring Microsoft environments ( http://www.nsclient.org/ ). As one of the first agents introduced with the Nagios success story, it has gained many improvements over the last years, becoming a reliable monitoring agent with extreme stability. This is also the reason, why this agent is still a principal…
Read MoreRetrieving MS Office Keys
Sometimes you need the list of the MS Office keys of your company, in this cases it is quite useful that your inventory system is able to automatically retrieve them. You may need to recover the MS Offices keys because you have eventually lost them… Or because you became system administrator of a new company and you don’t…
Read MoreAutomating Switch Deployment
There are a number of solutions promising simple switch provisioning. However, in reality a tool is either complicated, unreliable or even both… Of course, the device can be configured prior physical installation, but this can get complicated in an enterprise network with many remote sites. Even more so, if a contractor without network skills is…
Read MoreMonitoring of UPS – and now also Energy Stations
An important part of an IT Infrastructure is the UPS and Energy Stations that give the necessary power to your Infrastructure. What you need is Alarms and also longtime data of your UPS and Energy stations. Lately I implemented a new aproach and new plugins for this type of monitoring. While earlier a UPS/ES was…
Read MoreEnd User Experience Monitoring of Web Application with Sahi
Alyvix, our end user monitoring engine, can be used on any Application, web-browsers included. For Web Applications instead, we use the tool Sahi and for bigger infrastructures SahiPro. These tools are much more performant then Alyvix because they can work inside the DOM of the web-browser. Therefore, they are not dependent on screen images to…
Read MoreNetEye 3.6 and RUE 1.9 Have Been Released!
Effective log auditing, meaningful reports and better integration of the single modules The new version NetEye 3.6 provides some substantial improvements, to respond to specific customer needs, as well as to satisfy the continuously growing requirements in the complex world of IT monitoring. Major investments were made in the fields of reporting and SLA measurement….
Read MoreHow Much Bandwidth Do Your IT Services Actually Use?
Nfdump displays the traffic among network devices and thereby allows seeing how much bandwidth is consumed by the single flows. This may be a useful information, but indeed, it is not very meaningful. Since Nfdump just lists the single flows between two ports (including the generated traffic), it is difficult to understand at a glance:…
Read MoreEasy Switch Configuration Backup with NeDi
The network discovery tool NeDi does not only work as discovery tool for network devices like switches, routers and VOIP phones, it is also an excellent backup manager for switches.
Read MoreBring UPS Monitoring To a New Level
As described on one of my previous post about UPS Monitoring we developed a NetEye check plugin to monitor the UPS devices and report data on them. In the past months we have been working on this features by adding a lot of more devices to the plugin. These devices are UPSs and energy stations….
Read MoreOSSM Conference – WORKSHOPS
To further deepen the topics that will be covered during the Open Source System Management Conference, Würth Phoenix organizes four different workshops. The workshops will be held on April 15 at the Würth Phoenix Training Center to address the highlights for the network traffic analysis with ntopng, the process management with OTRS, the Event Handler and Log Management…
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