At Würth Phoenix we take testing very seriously. NetEye 4 is a sophisticated product that operates in complex and business-critical environments, so it requires lots of tests before being released. One challenging part of the testing phase is load testing, where the functionalities of a system are subject to predetermined levels of load. NetEye customers…
Read MoreThe introduction of the new Elastic Features (formerly, X-Pack packages) for the Elastic Stack added many new functionalities to the previous implementation in Net-Eye. One of them is the Watcher feature. Let’s discuss a use case based on this feature. Imagine you as a user want to somehow trigger a webhook alert every time something…
Read MoreOn June 13, we announced a new OEM Partnership with Elastic, and Elastic updated its relationship with OEM, MSP and CSP partners, with the result that in NetEye 4 we now have some new features. Starting with NetEye 4.6, you can now activate the X-Pack feature. After I activate X-Pack and open NetEye, I see:…
Read MoreModern society has continued its increasing use of digital solutions, and today large amounts of sensitive data are stored digitally. As the value and sensitivity of this information increases, the number of potential threats will increase accordingly. Verizon Enterprise’s RISK team recently published a report in cooperation with the United States Secret Service (USSS), the…
Read MoreUntil now, authentication of NetEye users on Grafana was achieved by means of session cookies, which were provided by the Grafana server when authenticating in Icinga Web 2. However, with the upgrade of Grafana from version 5.2 to version 6.2, we can no longer employ this authentication procedure because Grafana has discontinued the use of…
Read MoreIn a previous blog post I presented how the Log Management architecture fits in a NetEye cluster, and now I want to summarize my recent experiences to help you diagnose Elasticsearch health issues. Elasticsearch provides a set of APIs which help to identify and debug a number of potential causes. But NetEye Log Management is…
Read MoreMagic happens when collaboration really works and community spirit grows. This month, Würth Phoenix announced the expansion of its partnership with Elastic to make it faster and easier for users to deploy Elasticsearch within NetEye 4. Elastic is the company behind Elasticsearch, Kibana, Beats, and Logstash, an ecosystem of Open Source-based search and analytics tools….
Read MoreNetEye 4 is composed of various modules, such as the NetEye 4 Log Manager that houses Elastic Stack with Search Guard. Our vision for the future of the NetEye 4 Log Manager is shown in the following diagram: Here you can see the various modules and technologies. For instance, you can see that we have…
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 MoreUpdated neteye to version 4.5.1-1: Define neteye-cluster-local.target Updated neteye-setup to version 1.7.1-1: Manage target neteye single instance and cluster Update creation of icingaweb2 DB resource with dynamic creation of DB hostname Updated elasticsearch-neteye-config to version 1.5.0-1: Relate elasticsearch.service to neteye-cluster-local.target Updated eventhandler to version 1.7.6-1: Fix module DB hostname for cluster environment Updated auditlog to…
Read MoreNetEye 4 Log Manager, as already presented in this blog post, allows you to easily manage the collection, navigation, visualization and analysis of large numbers of logs. For many reasons, I as a user may want to limit log access to a subset of users. For example a network administrator should only see the logs…
Read MoreCreating hosts in NetEye’s Director module can sometimes be time-consuming and a repetitious, tiring and boring job. Especially if you have to populate Director with a large number of hosts for setting up a test environment, for example. One solution is to create a script consisting of nothing but icingacli commands. Each command line instruction…
Read MoreThe Safed agent keeps track of the events it receives from the Eventlog by keeping the LastEventID in registry. At start time the agent tries to retrieve all events from Windows Eventlog since starting from the LastEventID. When the amount of events since LastEventID is too large or the LastEventID has been removed from the…
Read MoreThe regulations of the GDPR in many cases require that some user data is not always present, and / and or that they are anonymized. So I would like to show you now how NetEye 4 responds to this new requirement. NetEye 4 is composed of various modules. In the NetEye 4 Log Manager, we have Elastic…
Read More– Retrieved events from eventlog (win 2008 +) starts from bookmark but should not be older than defined cache days
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