Why it’s important to use signed packages RPM signing is an often underestimated feature: you use official repositories, why shouldn’t you trust them? Those repositories are also probably protected with TLS encryption, so you feel safe against man-in-the-middle attacks. But you may not be as safe as you think you are. Have you heard about that time when the repository…
Read MoreIn a companion post we talked about how to create a custom theme for Sphinx, like the one we made for the new NetEye online user guide.Sometimes just a basic customization is not enough and you want to create something much more advanced. In this article, we’ll look at some more detailed custom parts. Custom…
Read MoreDuring this release we worked a lot to improve the NetEye User Guide. The new user guide is now independent of the NetEye product itself, it can be found online and its structure is greatly changed. By this I mean that we improved not only its content, but we also decided to use a more…
Read More“A dashboard should tell a story or answer a question” “Dashboards should reduce cognitive load, not add to it“ Following the two best practices mentioned above I would like to consider the following use case: I am a NetEye customer with a single node implementation and I would like a dashboard that helps me to…
Read MoreWelcome to version 4.17 of our NetEye v4 Unified Monitoring Solution. General Improvements With the new NetEye release, the Contrib RPM repository is made generally available in NetEye 4. The Contrib repository contains supplemental packages, like NeDi and the Icingaweb2 module X509, intended to work with NetEye and provided by NetEye contributors. This goes in…
Read MoreMeeting the highest security standards is an absolute priority in NetEye. For this reason, in the continuous process of improving security in NetEye 4, we brought an important architectural improvement in the Log Manager module in the NetEye 4.17 release. The new architecture takes the name of Real Time Log Signing and its main focus…
Read MoreI’ve been working with Grafana since 2017, when I started as a Frontend Developer here at Wuerth Phoenix.I typically take care of the customization of the Grafana User Interface, with the goal of reflecting the NetEye look and feel inside Grafana, aka the ITOA module. I’ve already written about a simple way to customize the…
Read MoreWe fixed a compatibility issue in the Icinga 2 agent for Windows systems that prevented the user to fully utilize all the features available. The new Icinga2 Windows agent executable can be downloaded from our repositories.
Read MoreSynopsis Critical: NeDi security update Type/Severity Security Advisory: Critical Topic An update for NeDi is now available for NetEye. NetEye Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Critical. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE…
Read MoreWe recently integrated two dashboards into NetEye SIEM to check what is happening within Active Directory, a component that is present in the vast majority of our customer environments. These two dashboards start from the collection of security events that are gathered across the various Windows servers that make up the infrastructure, and are then…
Read MoreThis post follows the one written some time ago by my colleague Mirko Bez. We became Elasticsearch Certified Professionals after passing both the Engineer exam and Analyst exam. In this post I’d like to tell you about my experience with the Analyst certification. This exam focuses mainly on Kibana, and 99% of the task can be done…
Read MoreWe fixed a bug in SLM reports for which they were not using the availability information stored in the monitored objects status. So, in case the IDO DB retention policy deleted all the events related to a monitored object, the report showed that it was not possible to generate the report, even though useful information…
Read MoreWe fixed a bug that caused the master to reject the output of the command executed by the command orchestrator module if the executing endpoint did not belong to the target host object zone. For NetEye 4.16 we updated the following packages: icinga2, icinga2-autosetup, icinga2-bin, icinga2-common, icinga2-debuginfo, icinga2-doc, icinga2-ido-mysql, icinga2-ido-pgsql, icinga2-neteye-config, icinga2-resources, icinga2-selinux, nano-icinga2, vim-icinga2…
Read MoreWe fixed a bug that freezes the UI when a user has a huge services list, and he selects the option to show 500 results per page on the service list view. Also, once update the below packages do a hard refresh (Ctrl + R) on the browser. For NetEye 4.16 we updated the following…
Read MoreWe have fixed some visual problems in the dashboard panels of the ITOA module. For NetEye 4.16 we updated the following packages: grafana, grafana-autosetup, grafana-neteye-config to version 7.2.0_neteye3.11.1-1
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