ScenarioIn a Microsoft Remote Desktop environment, it’s a common need to force the logoff of a hanged user session. The NetEye Command Orchestrator (CMDO) can help us perform this task by executing remote commands through the Icinga2 agent API. There’s a security limitation built into the Command Orchestrator which allows only numeric parameters for executed…
Read MoreWelcome to version 4.22 of our NetEye v4 Unified Monitoring Solution. NetEye welcomes the new year and its new release with what is probably the most famous church tower in South Tyrol: the half-submerged steeple of the Resia Lake. The Lake Reschen, “Reschensee” in German and “Lago di Resia” in Italian, is located at the…
Read MoreIn this article I’ll show you how to use information from NeDi to build network maps using draw.io. Getting Data from NeDi NeDi is an open source software tool which discovers, maps and inventories your network devices and tracks connected end nodes. In the NeDI database there are three tables that provide the data needed…
Read MoreHPE Nimble Storage is a data storage solution, created by Nimble Storage, which was bought by HPE in 2017. Recently I had to monitor such a storage service and for this I used the following plugin: check_nimble_health_api.py Nimble offers a REST Web API to query its status and that’s what this plugin uses. Unfortunately it’s…
Read MoreOr: a Tool for Collecting, Browsing and Analyzing IP and Hostname Data Available Across Your Organization Take any discretely large, organically grown company network, and you’ll find an interplay of heterogeneous servers, network devices, computers, printers, virtual machines, embedded devices and more. Do you have documentation on all the assets in the network, both the…
Read MoreOne of the strongest points of NetEye is the extremely high level of customization that you can reach. It allows any customer to set up their environment for an almost perfect fit to their own needs or desires. This is typically achieved with the work of our Consultant Team in understanding each customer’s needs, and…
Read MoreWe fixed a bug in NetEye 4.21 that caused the selected interface to be lost when navigating between pages. For NetEye 4.21 we updated the following packages: icingaweb2-module-ntopng, icingaweb2-module-ntopng-autosetup to version 1.5.4-1
Read MoreTogether with the NetEye 4.21 release, we also released NEP (an abbreviation that stands for NetEye Extension Packs) and now it’s possible to install it using the RPM present in the Official NetEye Repositories. If you are interested in this topic, I invite you to look at how these NEPs have been set up. The…
Read MoreWe fixed a bug in NetEye 4.21 which discarded scheduled downtimes generated by Icinga 2 in the SLM availability reports. For NetEye 4.21 we updated the following packages: slmd, slmd-autosetup to version 4.8.2-1
Read More(Or, Who’s Monitoring the Monitor?) Everyone uses a monitoring system to understand what’s going on in their own environment and how it performs, but what about the monitoring system itself? The monitoring system also has its own tasks to perform, and obviously its own needs. Therefore even NetEye itself, while performing its duties, can be…
Read MoreWelcome to version 4.21 of our NetEye v4 Unified Monitoring Solution. NetEye welcomes the winter season and its new release with a majestic snowy panorama view on the Sassolungo/Langkofel range in the Dolomites Alps. Sassolungo/Langkofel is the highest mountain in the range, which also includes the Cinque Dita/Fünffinger and Sassopiatto/Plattkofel peaks and lays at the…
Read MoreWe’ve already written a blog post about how to integrate Alyvix 3 and Alyvix Server into NetEye 4. Some time has passed and a few things have changed, so here are some new HOWTO’s that can make your life easier. HARD State/Soft State with the right notification sent out The first thing is that the…
Read MoreSOAP is a messaging protocol for exchanging information based on XML over the network. SOAP messages are written in XML, which is why they are platform- and language-independent. A lot of enterprises have such webservices that return useful data for use in (web) applications. Now, if you want your application to work, then these webservices…
Read MoreA customer asked me to analyze their network flows, with a solution oriented towards using an nBox that collects NetFlow data from a router located away from the branch office, takes it in for analysis, and then sends it to a NetEye Elastic module, which act as an analysis console for that NetFlow data. The…
Read MoreWe were recently asked how to dynamically monitor folders with Icinga. Several of our clients monitor folders whose names change from day to day. For example, suppose every day I want to see if there is a file named with the date of that particular day, or I’d like to see if there is a…
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