If you have an Exchange Server and want to check its status, Exchange has a PowerShell API just for this. Check out this zip file exchange-serverhealth, which includes a powershell script to put on your Exchange Server and a “Monarch” Service Profile that you can import into your NetEye Monarch Monitoring Configuration Application. On your…
Read MoreDo you have Citrix or Windows RDP servers, and your users keep calling you because of problems? The first problem is to see which server the user was connected to. I solved this problem by monitoring the user connections on Windows Terminal Servers (including Citrix Servers), so that you know how many users are connected…
Read MoreThe new release of NetEye 4 brings with it the Grafana scripted dashboard concept. If you have lots of metric names, it can be annoying to have to constantly create new dashboards. But if they change in a defined pattern (e.g., new servers), you can use scripted dashboards to create those dashboards dynamically using JavaScript. …
Read MoreMost of our customers know and use NeDi for network discovery and inventory, and GLPI for asset management. These NetEye modules have two important results, if they are implemented and used in the best way: Having an active discovery tool to identify each device connected to the company network: from the main network devices to…
Read MoreDRBD 9 allows configurations to have multi node replication without stacking. In this post I will briefly describe how to define a multi-node DRBD resource, and highlight the differences for pacemaker cluster integration.
Read MoreThe optimized delivery of our products requires the automation of installations and upgrades. In particular, the latest version of the nBox appliance is based on Ubuntu and requires automated and, possibly, offline installation and upgrade processes. The aim of this article is to describe the procedure to create an Ubuntu ISO image, which provides the…
Read MoreOver the last few weeks I’ve had the opportunity to install my first NetEye 4 at a customer site, and now I’d like to report to you about my experience. NetEye 4 comes with the Icinga2 monitoring engine, and we are using Icinga Director for managing the monitoring configuration. Obviously we have started to integrate…
Read MoreIntroduction In this second part of the tutorial we will create a Grafana dashboard to visualize the performance data that we have collected in the first part of the tutorial that can be found here: How to monitor docker containers using cAdvisor [ Part 1 ] 1. Create a new Data Source The first thing…
Read MoreIn recent weeks I had the opportunity to test the release candidate of the new NetEye BP API. This new API allows you to create and update NetEye Business Processes over the Perl API. Especially when used in large NetEye environments, it was often difficult to create a large number of business processes by hand…
Read MoreWouldn’t it be great to have quick access to your favorite pages in the NetEye documentation? To make customized thumbnail pages of your most frequent screenshots? To create your own alternative documentation index with categories reflecting your mindset? To add your own notes, comments, or FAQ with pointers into the existing NetEye documentation? That would…
Read MoreThe development of a software solution requires automated quality control to deliver a better customer experience. Our Unified Monitoring solution is based on a best-of-breed approach using tried-and-trusted open source tools. In our vision, the development processes should deliver integrated solutions through automated systems which manage not only the building and verification of the software…
Read MoreIntroduction When you need to monitor multiple machines, it’s a lot of work to install each machine manually. Instead, you want to run just a single command, or click a few buttons, to configure all those machines at once, and then keep them updated over time. This can be achieved with a bash script, so…
Read MoreData collection is one of the key steps when you want to analyze the current state of your network, system or application in terms of performance. Data visualization is another: even the most sophisticated data collection cannot help you solve problems if it is visualized poorly. Nowadays a single visualization is often not enough since…
Read MoreConfiguring Microsoft Servers: Authentication and Permissions Settings In this blog I will provide you a how-to for configuring agentless monitoring for Microsoft Servers or Workstations via WMI. What is WMI? Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) is Microsoft’s implementation of an industry-standard approach to accessing management information in an enterprise environment. WMI uses the industry-standard Common Information…
Read MoreReady to take your IT process skills beyond the traditional? Our new training offerings will help you acquire, maintain and improve your knowledge and skills around our solutions. This year’s training program contains courses for NetEye, EriZone or Alyvix customers and partners, each lasting between 2 and 4 working days. The main focus will be…
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