”I developed this tool during the last decade! Being a networker myself, I implemented exactly what I needed, just the way I wanted.” Remo Rickli, many years ago developed a small collection of Perl scripts aimed to check Cisco devices for defined data. Over the time this has grown into a network management tool that…
Read MoreThe Open Source System Management Conference 2013 will be held on April 18th in Bolzano. After the success obtained over the years, the conference aims also in 2013 to present news, updates and trends on the Open Source software by addressing IT Managers, System Administrators and developers. Particularly significant will be the presence of Al…
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Read MoreIn case of passive checks as for example SNMP traps or notifications via email from external checking systems, it is not always possible to know if these controls are correctly performed. This is the reason that made us decide to look for a solution able to ensure that the passive checks are being regularly provided by…
Read MoreWe will participate in this year’s CeBIT by introducing all new NetEye features at our stand located in Hall 6, Block F16, Stand 133. What you might expect: Practical examples of the integration of successful projects like the network traffic monitoring with ntop, the network discovery with NeDi or all the latest features on Asset…
Read MoreNSClient++ has for many years been the de facto way to monitor Windows machines from Nagios derived monitoring solutions such as Neteye, which over the past years has integrated various additional functionalities in its offer. With the new version (0.4.1) we are now moving steadily from “just a windows agent” to become versatile tool to…
Read MoreI have implemented new PNP templates for NetEye to display in the graphs not only the average information but also the maximum values. As displayed in the two examples below, the network traffic graph shows in green color the inbound (Light green) and outbound traffic (dark green), that are calculated as average values. The newly…
Read MoreAfter the University of Bologna, Udine and Trento also the largest Italian business school La Sapienza in Rome has installed NetEye. Key decision factors according to the IT department of La Sapienza were the easy integration of the solution into the existing infrastructure and its Open Source business model, providing more openness in adapting the solution…
Read MoreIn 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….
Read MoreThe Business Services monitoring module of NetEye has been designed to obtain a higher abstraction level to define IT Services. It allows to configure the dependencies of the IT services with the infrastructure components. In this way it is also possible to simulate the business impact that for instance a server anomaly will have on…
Read MoreA customer has recently required to monitor their IBM Storewize V7000. The control of the SAN IBM was crucial for the company as these systems were in failover with critical data replication. It was frequently happening that the replication process was interrupted and till now no solutions were implemented to send prompt notifications in case…
Read More“We’ve seen that Open Source has been used more and more by organizations. IT monitoring tools in particular are strongly adopted in Europe ” commented Jeffrey Hammond, Principal Analyst at Forrester Research, in his interview. If you’re interested in knowing more about Open Source and the reasons of its large adoption in the past years,…
Read MoreAn update of the previous script for monitoring the UPS health status includes now also the APC MIB base. ( Blog article ) The monitoring features for APC include now the monitoring of the Battery capacity %, Temperature and voltage. A comparison against the settable limits in terms of input lines ( availability ) and…
Read MoreThe monitoring of SAP environments requires the application of a specific strategy to access and verify key monitoring variables. SAP provides for this purpose a dedicated data interface – the CCMS interface. This is an open data-exchange interface allowing to communicate through an external source with the SAP-environment. For NetEye we have adapted the opensource…
Read MoreSAP Solution Manager monitors the behavior of SAP Instances and sends notification email in case of misbehaviors. Integrating this solution with NetEye the benefit is the possibility to have the mails sent to a user on NetEye Server and thanks to a procmail script rows are inserted into the MessageConsole Application. The script could be like this: #! /bin/sh # export…
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