Monitoring Maps to Support Your IT Incident Management
Integration of NagVis monitoring maps into the monitoring details view of NetEye 3 with Thruk
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NetEye 4 and Managed IT Services
As you all know, NetEye 4 is offered as an appliance or virtual machine. But today I want to talk about cloud and managed IT services using NetEye 4. As a foreword I would just like to briefly explain what managed IT services are: A managed IT service is a solution that is delivered by…
Read MoreFOSDEM 2019
As we do every year, we participated again this year at FOSDEM, the largest conference on free and open source software in Europe. Apart from having really nice conversations and grabbing many stickers 🙂 , we attended many very inspiring talks this year, too.
Read MoreIcinga Camp Milan 2019
It’s getting closer! The first Italian Icinga Camp organized by Würth Phoenix will take place on September 26th in Milan. The agenda includes a great set of talks from experienced Icinga / NetEye users. The topics vary from integrations with Elastic and Alyvix, to complex event processing (CEP) as well as numerous best practices from…
Read MoreA New NetEye Appliance in a Hybrid Cluster Solution
Our Icinga-based network monitoring solution NetEye 4 can also be supplied in a small form factor appliance. Industrial PCs are ubiquitous these days and can be found everywhere in all sorts of applications. The one we chose is the APU2 from Swiss manufacturer PC Engines. The APU2 features an AMD quad core 64-bit CPU, 4…
Read MoreResearch & Development – A New User Guide Process (Part 4)
Software grows. So do software teams. To avoid getting slow and rusty over time, teams need to constantly assess their progress, improve where they can, and make necessary changes when warranted. The NetEye R&D team is no exception. Back when NetEye was smaller, we wrote documentation when time allowed, typically after new features had already…
Read MoreResearch & Development – Planning Poker (Part 3)
I described in a prior blog post the so-called Backlog which is used not only by the Research & Development team but also by the other teams in the System Integration unit. The Backlog Refinement meeting is focused on the prioritization and re-ordering of tasks, and this activity cannot be achieved without properly estimating effort. In this…
Read MoreHow to Monitor Icinga 2 Itself with Icingabeat
NetEye 4 is based on Icinga 2. How can we monitor it? There are several options available; here I choose Icingabeat and test it. Icingabeat is an Elastic Beat that fetches data from the Icinga 2 API and sends it directly to either Elasticsearch or Logstash. In my case, I wanted to send the information…
Read MoreNetEye 4 PSR-7 implementation
When talking about data transmission the main thing to take care is that both sides communicate in the same language. The sender must be sure to send only stuff that the receiver can understand. The receiver must know how to interpret the request and to process an intelligible response for the sender. Let me introduce…
Read MoreMicrosoft Failover Cluster Monitoring
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 MoreThe Power of DevOps in the Cloud
How 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 MoreIPL Turns NetEye 4 Development Upside Down
We 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 MoreHow to create a new ZendForm element for Icinga Web 2
In 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 MoreResearch & Development – Backlog (Part 2)
We 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 Morentop Training
Who 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…
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