In today’s critical IT environments, setting up a cluster represents a common approach to increasing the availability of services and applications. The concept of clustering is a set of independent computers that work together, where if one node fails another node automatically begins to provide services through a process known as failover. To make sure…
Read MoreHow can you preserve software maintainability while continuously releasing new features and improving development process quality? Our NetEye R&D Team answered this with its contribution at a dedicated workshop at the NOI Tech Park in Bolzano, discussing how Agile tools can unleash a team’s creativity and improve software delivery cycle time. The event was organized…
Read MoreRegistrations for the German edition of the NetEye & EriZone User Group, taking place on the 10th of April 2019 are open. The program foresees a full-day event comprising best practice presentations and interactive workshops, driving tangible innovation and first hand experiences in working with NetEye and EriZone. The event will take place at Dauphin…
Read MoreWe are witnessing a deep transformation within the NetEye 4 core: Icinga Web 2 will move from the Zend Framework to a totally new library called IPL (Icinga PHP Library). This change is already underway in the NetEye 4.3 release with the new version of the Director module. The Icinga team has already partially introduced…
Read MoreIn one of the latest releases of the EventHandler module for NetEye 4 we introduce, for the first time, a completely customized form element. In order to satisfy certain EventHandler usage constraints, we needed to create a drop-down element that allows the user to enter a custom value in addition to choosing one of the…
Read MoreWe described in a prior blog post how the Research & Development team has adopted a full Agile approach. Although the basic principles remain unchanged and all team members have embraced a mindset of self-organization and team collaboration, in recent years new challenges have arisen that require continuous improvements in our methodologies. In particular, in this blog post we…
Read MoreWho is using your network and how? What kind of traffic does your company generate? Where does slow network performance come from? ntop has the answers. ntop is a network traffic probe that monitors network usage. This solution provides an intuitive, encrypted web user interface for the exploration of both real-time and historical traffic information. In our…
Read MoreIf you’ve ever had cardinality problems with InfluxDB, you might have discovered that a tag is the likely culprit. Well done! But now your next step is getting rid of that tag, and that’s when you’ll realize that in a time series database, tags play an important role in indexing. Because dropping tags is rather complicated,…
Read MoreSo you have MSSQL databases and you’d like to keep an eye on the performance of your DB. Using NetEye this is quite easy. The tools you need are already available on your NetEye server: InfluxDB, the Telegraf agent, and Grafana for visualizing your Dashboards. The SQL Server Input Plugin provides metrics for your SQL…
Read MoreRemote Desktop Services 2016: The AppContainer Windows Server 2016 introduced the “AppContainer”, which is created when users connect to the server for the first time. Due to a registry leak, the Windows Server generates registry bloat for firewall rules. This registry bloat can be found in the following registry keys: HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\SharedAccess\Parameters\FirewallPolicy\FirewallRules HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\SharedAccess\Parameters\FirewallPolicy\RestrictedServices\Configurable\System Over time, this…
Read MoreThis year we again took an active part in the South Tyrol Free Software Conference “SFScon”, an annual Italian conference dedicated to new technologies in the field of Open Source and Free Software. 400 participants joined the event, with sessions divided into parallel tracks about “DevOps”, “AI & Analytics”, “Best Practices” and “Data Infrastructure &…
Read MoreUpdated neteye-api-2.0.1-1, neteye-thruk-2.20.2_neteye2.0.7-1, neteye-nagios-bp-1.8.2-1 : – Fixed: OTP is shown wrongly sometimes – Fixed: Business Process navigation slow when using AST feature – Fixed: Business Process editing slow with elevated number of Business Processes
Read MoreHistorically, NetEye Clusters were configured with DRBD as Master/Slave resources. This led to the following rather cumbersome resource configuration for an N-node cluster: $SERVICE_drbd_master ( x 1 ) $SERVICE_drbd_master_clone ( x N ) $SERVICE_drbd_fs $SERVICE_virt_ip $SERVICE Note: $SERVICE serves as a placeholder for any Cluster Service running in NetEye 4. At least ten constraints were…
Read MoreWürth Phoenix will contribute to this week’s South Tyrol Free Software Conference at the NOI Techpark in Bolzano. Susanne will hold a dedicated speech on Successful Performance Monitoring, focusing on operations analytics [ITOA] and Machine Learning techniques. A parallel Hackathon contest with different topics to work on, one jury and amazing prizes, will also be…
Read MoreFrom this November 5th to 8th, more than 250 system engineers, developers, network engineers and IT managers met in Nuremberg, Germany to discuss the latest approaches to monitoring and observability. The four-day event comprised 3 tracks of expert presentations on November 6th and 7th, technical workshops on the 5th, and a full-day hackathon directly following…
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