Updated Package for neteye-alyvix-1.1.0-2 (for NetEye 3.11)
ChangeLog: Enchancements for check_alyvix_services (NA-3) Added dependencies for exec_prog (NEPROD-148)
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Microsoft ADFS integration with Shibboleth
Starting with the Windows Server 2003 R2 version, Microsoft introduced the Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS), a software component which provides users with single sign-on access to systems and applications located across organizational boundaries. ADFS is part of the Active Directory Services. The authenticated user is provided with a series of Claims related to his…
Read MoreXtremIO EMC Storage Monitoring with NetEye
If you need to monitor a Dell EMC Storage XtremIO unit, then I have the right solution for you. Not long ago, I wrote an XtremIO storage tracking plug-in that can execute the following activities: XTREMIO_CTRL_Status: monitors the controllers and the hardware status XTREMIO_DPG_Status: controls the DPG groups from the storage array XTREMIO_Storage_Efficiency: verifies and…
Read MoreOracle Exadata Monitoring with NetEye
More and more often I’ve needed to integrate an Oracle Exadata system with NetEye Monitoring. The Oracle Exadata Database Machine is a combined compute and storage system marketed for running Oracle Database software. The best way to integrate the Oracle Exadata system is to use SNMP Trap alerting. Then, it depends on your particular Oracle…
Read MoreHyper-V monitoring: Here’s some tips!
Network traffic monitoring is traditionally based on SNMP queries. This protocol generates statistics on the transmission of data across one or more network interfaces. While network device queries still run through SNMP, using Microsoft Hyper-V monitoring requires the adoption of other approaches. One of the reasons is the network connection configuration itself: for example, many…
Read MoreJavaScript Design Patterns in Icinga Web 2
Are you looking for some guidelines on how to create new JavaScript functions in Icinga Web 2? This article will show you the necessary structure your function should have in order to compile correctly with Icinga. If you’ve already looked at some example functions within the existing Icinga JS code, you will have noticed that…
Read MoreLife Cycle Asset Management with GLPI and OCS Inventory
If you are using our Asset Management module integrated into NetEye, you probably already know about the potential of OCS Inventory and GLPI. However, often users are not aware of all the functionalities available in Life Cycle Asset Management. So let’s highlight some of the most important features to manage the entire life cycle of…
Read MoreIcinga Web 2 Theming
Icinga Web 2 is a powerful PHP framework for web applications in a clean, minimal design. It’s fast, responsive, accessible and easily extensible with modules. It can be installed quickly and easily from packages found in the official package repositories (see the resource links at the bottom of this blog post). Besides the global configuration…
Read MoreNutanix Monitoring with NetEye
Doing my work as monitoring consultant, I often have to monitor Nutanix systems on customer site. Nutanix is a integrated systems vendor that produces a hyper-converged storage system called “Virtual Computing Platform”. It is quiet easy to monitor the Nutanix system and with NetEye you will be able to get the best results and visualization possibilities….
Read MoreNext Level Performance Monitoring – Part I
Network traffic keeps becoming more and more heterogeneous. In many cases, it is not enough to monitor a system as we have done in the past. Here I will present the key ingredients according to Würth Phoenix for successful state of the art performance monitoring and proactive analysis of those applications that are critical for…
Read MoreHow to extend or modify the APIs
Introduction The NetEye APIs offer a simple way to automate and script common processes on NetEye. They expose more than 150 objects written in Perl, which can be easily used and extended. The NetEye APIs allow you to perform several actions: add/modify/remove a host, service or business process from Nagios, as well as compute the availability of…
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09. 05. 2017
NetEye Blog Admin
NetEye, Real User Experience, Service Management, Visual Synthetic Monitoring
Synthetic Application Monitoring with Alyvix
Synthetic Application Monitoring: Allows monitoring applications from the user’s point of view by simulating transaction sequences, followed by the measurement and recording of the perceived performance data. Would you like to be independent from subjective statements as “application XY is slow” or outage indications from your users? In this case, the concept of synthetic application…
Read MoreSNMP – Agentless Monitoring
In this article, I am going to explain how to implement a monitoring on your system, using an agentless solution (without Nagios’ nrpe agents), and I will underline some advantages of this useful solution. The target machine will be Linux or Unix Operating Systems. The need can arise from the fact that some of the…
Read MoreFind out who is eating your bandwidth with ntopng
Who really knows what are the protocols used in the local network? Usually with netflow you can distinguish traffic per l4 port (80=http,443=https,..) but this is no more sufficient. Some applications use dynamic ports (see nfs, ftp, routed sap, …), several applications use the same ports, how can we distinguish them? Applications grow and change really fast (like…
Read MoreIoT, big data, Cloud: the NetEye’s answer
On May 16 you can meet us at the Internet of Things conference. We will discuss about the new challenges for the IT management in the digital transformation process including IoT, Smart City, Cloud and Big Data. Only the companies that react rapidly to the changing needs of the market are able to maintain a…
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