NetEye installation topology can fluctuate over time, with hosts of various types that can be, for example, added or removed from a cluster in response to changes in business demand or customer requirements. In a cluster environment, hosts are manually mapped in a file called /etc/neteye-cluster, a sort of static inventory solution that is the…
Read MoreUpgrading a NetEye 4 installation, either as a cluster or a single instance, is not always a painless activity. NetEye 4 is, in fact, a very sophisticated product that offers its customers a very large number of features, and operates in complex and business-critical environments. From version to version, the upgrade procedure may change: as…
Read MoreIn the previous blog post in our #devops series, we discussed how to automatically provision a NetEye cluster with virtually zero hassle. Thanks to Ansible, in fact, we dramatically reduced the amount of manual effort needed to generate a fully working cluster. This, in turn, opened up an opportunity to boost our cluster testing infrastructure…
Read MoreDo you have a NetEye server, and want to monitor your VMware ESXi Infrastructure? Nothing easier than that using the InfluxDB and Grafana Modules of NetEye, along with a Telegraf agent to deliver the data into Influx. Starting with version 1.6.x of Telegraf, there’s a plugin for querying for data from a vSphere server, but…
Read MoreDeploying a NetEye Cluster If you regularly follow this blog, you know that we automatically generate and test a NetEye ISO every night. Starting from the ISO, we can also automatically provision a NetEye virtual machine in a VMware vSphere infrastructure. One might wonder, “What if, since I already have these two ingredients available, I…
Read MoreDeploying a Single Instance As you probably already know, here at Würth Phoenix we love Ansible. Our journey started by using Terraform for simple automation tasks like generating a virtual machine in vSphere starting from an existing template, only to switch to Ansible later. Ansible is now our everyday companion for automation. As mentioned earlier,…
Read MoreMonitoring 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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