Introduction 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…
Read MoreJobScheduler is an Open Source solution for enterprise-level workload automation. It is used to launch executable files and shell scripts, and to run database procedures automatically. JobScheduler stores all information in a back-end database management system. As you may know, Würth Phoenix is an official partner of the German company SOS Berlin, the creator of…
Read MoreAfter deploying and configuring F5 network gear in your company, your next step will be to monitor these new devices. Depending on your monitoring solution, integrating your F5 network equipment can range from simple to complex. Maybe you need to search around for the various MIB files to get the optimal monitoring parameters, or perhaps…
Read MoreBoth EriZone and NetEye 4 are capable to work on Android or iOS mobile devices. As many of you already known, mobile browsers work differently from their desktop version and could happen that your application works flawlessly on desktop, but something is broken on mobile. What can you do in this case to understand the…
Read MoreAs 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 MoreIn an earlier post we saw how to extend the NetEye Perl API (http://www.neteye-blog.com/2017/06/how-to-extend-or-modify-the-apis/). By popular request, today we will stay at a higher level and walk through some simple use cases: * Searching for Objects * Adding new Objects * Removing Objects
Read MoreIn the latest releases of our dashboarding solution, Grafana, support for new relational datasources is included. These new datasources give us the ability to build native dashboards with relational datasets. In this blog I’d like to walk you through building up a high level dashboard for monitoring events. The data we want to query is…
Read MoreChangeLog: Fixed bug where scripts which use “nagios status” to decide if start are broken (NA-6)
Read MoreChangeLog: Enchancements for check_alyvix_services (NA-3) Added dependencies for exec_prog (NEPROD-148)
Read MoreStarting 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 MoreIf 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 MoreMore 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…
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