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10. 12. 2012 Juergen Vigna NetEye, Unified Monitoring

New PNP templates to view max values in the graphs

I have implemented new PNP templates for NetEye to display in the graphs not only the average information but also the maximum values. As displayed in the two examples below,  the network traffic graph shows in green color the inbound (Light green) and outbound  traffic (dark green), that are calculated as average values.  The newly…

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15. 11. 2012 NetEye Blog Admin Asset Management, NetEye, Unified Monitoring

NetEye adopted by the main European University

After the University of Bologna, Udine and Trento also the largest Italian business school La Sapienza in Rome has installed NetEye. Key decision factors according to the IT department of La Sapienza were the easy integration of the solution into the existing infrastructure and its Open Source business model, providing more openness in adapting the solution…

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25. 10. 2012 Patrick Zambelli NetEye, Unified Monitoring

CheckPoint Firewall Hardware Monitoring

In addition to the check_snmp_cpfw.pl where you can keep control of active connections, the Secure Virtual Network or the HA status I wanted to keep track of the basic hardware conditions of CP devices. For this I’ve extended the check_snmp_environment.pl ( check_snmp_environment.pl.tar ) adding in addition to other platforms also the SNMP support for CheckPoint firewalls….

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21. 09. 2012 Juergen Vigna Business Service Monitoring, NetEye

Notifications on critical business elements

The Business Services monitoring module of NetEye has been designed to  obtain a higher abstraction level to define IT Services. It allows to configure  the dependencies of the IT services with the infrastructure components. In this  way it is also possible to simulate the business impact that for instance a  server anomaly will have on…

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07. 08. 2012 Juergen Vigna NetEye, Unified Monitoring

How to monitor IBM storage

A customer has recently required to monitor their IBM Storewize V7000. The  control of the SAN IBM was crucial for the company as these systems were in  failover with critical data replication. It was frequently happening that the  replication process was interrupted and till now no solutions were implemented  to send prompt notifications in case…

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30. 05. 2012 Arianna Cunaccia NetEye, Unified Monitoring

The reasons of the Open Source large adoption – Interview with Jeffrey Hammond – Principal Analyst at Forrester Research

“We’ve seen that Open Source has been used more and more by organizations. IT monitoring tools in particular are strongly adopted in Europe ” commented Jeffrey Hammond, Principal Analyst at Forrester Research, in his interview. If you’re interested in knowing more about Open Source and the reasons of its large adoption in the past years,…

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13. 02. 2012 Patrick Zambelli Unified Monitoring

UPS Monitoring: Include of the APC MIBs

An update of the previous script for monitoring the UPS health status includes now also the APC MIB base. ( Blog article ) The monitoring features for APC include now the monitoring of the Battery capacity %, Temperature and voltage. A comparison against the settable limits in terms of input lines ( availability ) and…

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13. 02. 2012 Patrick Zambelli NetEye, Unified Monitoring

Integration of SAP solution manager – CCMS

The monitoring of SAP environments requires the application of a specific strategy to access and verify key monitoring variables. SAP provides for this purpose a dedicated data interface – the CCMS interface. This is an open data-exchange interface allowing to communicate through an external source with the SAP-environment. For NetEye we have adapted the opensource…

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05. 12. 2011 Juergen Vigna NetEye, Unified Monitoring

Integration of SAP Solution Manager

SAP Solution Manager monitors the behavior of SAP Instances and sends notification email in case of misbehaviors. Integrating this solution with NetEye the benefit is the possibility to have the mails sent to a user on NetEye Server and thanks to a procmail script  rows are inserted into the MessageConsole Application. The script could be like this: #! /bin/sh # export…

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28. 11. 2011 Patrick Zambelli Unified Monitoring

Automatic Nagios Downtime schedulation script

This blog article presents a little tool that might be useful to automatize tasks around Nagios. In every day’s IT administrator tasks the reboot and downtime for servers and services maintenance is not avoidable. One of the administration tasks in NetEye is also the schedulation of such downtimes in order to avoid predictable alert notifications…

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05. 07. 2011 Oreste Attanasio Unified Monitoring

Monitor LDAP attributes with Nagios

We extended the basic LDAP check contained in the standard plugins to monitor specific attributes of a given LDAP search. This allows to actively monitor the LDAP database consistency, tracking unwanted changes. Download: check_ldap_search

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26. 05. 2011 Thomas Forrer Downloads / Release Notes, NetEye, Unified Monitoring

NetEye Configtool 1.5.7-1

Changelog 1.5.7-1 – Added support for anonymous LDAP binding in the user profile account module – some bugfixes

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22. 03. 2011 Arianna Cunaccia Events, Unified Monitoring

Nagios World Conference Europe™: The new Linux standard DRBD

During the Nagios World Conference Europe™, one of the topic that will be presented is “Real Time Cluster Synchronisation for more Reliability in High Availability Systems”. Martin Loschwitz, Linbit Senior consultant, will clarify this concept introducing new Linux standards DRBD and explaining how DRBD can substitute the SAN data center. “The data are the lifeblood…

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24. 02. 2011 Luca Di Stefano NetEye, Unified Monitoring

NetEye: Qui custodiet custodes

Chi controlla i controllori?Con questo non voglio certo discutere come Giovenale sui costumi romani, ma presentare un nuovo strumento che darà maggior sicurezza all’appliance NetEye.La nuova funzionalità si occupa di tenere sotto controllo lo stato di NetEye. Qualora l’Appliance non desse più segni di vita, si attiva in automatico l’invio di SMS di emergenza per…

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09. 02. 2011 Juergen Vigna Unified Monitoring

Development: Gearman and ModGearman packages

To be able to increase performance and number of possible processed Nagios checks, NetEye introduces the use of Gearman and ModGearman to schedule Nagios Service- and Host checks. ModGearman is a new way of distributing active Nagios checks across your network. It consists of two parts: The NEB module, which resides in the Nagios core,…

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