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06. 12. 2013 NetEye Blog Admin Asset Management, NetEye

Virtual Machine Inventory

An IT organization today needs to have all the hardware, software and licenses information in order to negotiate with suppliers through a target strategy or to perform timely updates. A complete inventory system is therefore a must. As you may already know, NetEye provides the Inventory and Asset Management modules through the integration of GLPI…

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18. 11. 2013 Juergen Vigna NetEye, Unified Monitoring

Remake SW RAID1 from a new HDD and an old HDD with bad blocks

Question: If you have a SW RAID1 and I just replaced, say, /dev/sda with a new HDD as the old one failed. Now, upon trying to recreate the RAID array you discover that the “good” HDD (/dev/sdb) has bad blocks which prevents mdadm from resyncing the array. While you could make backups, replace /dev/sdb as…

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28. 10. 2013 NetEye Blog Admin Asset Management, NetEye

Rack management with GLPI

Have you ever had the need to manage in your inventory the location and the content of your racks? The plugin Bays Management for GLPI can also be adopted to meet this need. With the plugin it is possible to create and manage your rack and to locate the various components. In this way it is…

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01. 10. 2013 Georg Kostner NetEye, Unified Monitoring

Automation of the Monarch configuration process

Adding new hosts individually in Monarch with their information such as address, operating system or profile can take less than a minute. In the initial phase of a NetEye project, however, when you have to set up all the configurations for hundreds of hosts this operation may require more than hundreds of minutes. To speed…

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18. 09. 2013 Patrick Zambelli NetEye, Unified Monitoring

Job Execution control with new ActionLaunchpad features

The project of integrating the control of Job execution on remote As400 systems was introduced by my colleague in this article. A job process check verifies the number of executing jobs and more important: the failed Jobs. A next step of this project consisted in the implementation of a control panel, that can be used…

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13. 05. 2013 Juergen Vigna Downloads / Release Notes, Unified Monitoring

Updated neteye-plugins-1.4.1 package

The neteye-plugins package has updated this plugins: – check_modem_smst.pl: Fixed calculating of to be checked timerange as it had an error on midnight and month change

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26. 04. 2013 NetEye Blog Admin Asset Management, Business Service Monitoring, Events, NetEye, Service Management

The Open Source System Management Conference – Videos available

For all those who could not attend the conference or are interested in reviewing the sessions – all presentations are available in video format at the Conferences pages. Enjoy!

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04. 04. 2013 NetEye Blog Admin Asset Management, Events, NetEye

NeDi founder Remo Rickli at the Open Source System Management Conference

”I developed this tool during the last decade! Being a networker myself, I implemented exactly what I needed, just the way I wanted.” Remo Rickli, many years ago developed a small collection of Perl scripts aimed to check Cisco devices for defined data. Over the time this has grown into a network management tool that…

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15. 03. 2013 Arianna Cunaccia Events, NetEye, Unified Monitoring

Save the date – 18th April 2013 – OSSM Conference

The Open Source System Management Conference 2013  will be held on April 18th in Bolzano. After the success obtained over the years, the conference aims also in 2013 to present news, updates and trends on the Open Source software by addressing IT Managers, System Administrators and developers. Particularly significant will be the presence of Al…

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14. 03. 2013 NetEye Blog Admin NetEye, Real User Experience, Unified Monitoring

The CeBIT 2013 – A big thank you to all our visitors

NetEye auf der CeBIT: Die CeBIT 2013 – Ein herzliches Dankeschön an alle Besucher

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30. 01. 2013 Juergen Vigna NetEye, Unified Monitoring

Check the freshness of passive checks

In case of passive checks as  for example SNMP traps or notifications via email from external checking systems, it is not always possible to know if these controls are correctly performed. This is the reason that made us decide to look for a solution able to ensure that the passive checks are being regularly provided by…

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28. 01. 2013 Arianna Cunaccia NetEye, Real User Experience, Service Management, Unified Monitoring

Join us at this year’s CeBIT

We will participate in this year’s CeBIT by introducing all new NetEye features at our stand located in Hall 6, Block F16, Stand 133. What you might expect: Practical examples of the integration of successful projects like the network traffic monitoring with ntop, the network discovery with NeDi or all the latest features on Asset…

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21. 12. 2012 Michael Medin NetEye, Unified Monitoring

NSClient++ 0.4.1 released!

NSClient++ has for many years been the de facto way to monitor Windows machines from Nagios derived monitoring solutions such as Neteye, which over the past years has integrated various additional functionalities in its offer. With the new version (0.4.1) we are now moving steadily from “just a windows agent” to become versatile tool to…

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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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