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….
Read MoreThe 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…
Read MoreA 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…
Read More“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,…
Read MoreAn 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…
Read MoreThe 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…
Read MoreSAP 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…
Read MoreThis 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…
Read MoreWe 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
Read MoreChangelog 1.5.7-1 – Added support for anonymous LDAP binding in the user profile account module – some bugfixes
Read MoreDuring 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…
Read MoreChi 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…
Read MoreTo 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,…
Read MoreThis post introduces a check strategy to monitor the freshness of Nagios performance graphs. When the feature is enabled Nagios is generating performance graphs, that are updated automatically with the execution of a single check. Such a check result delivers also the so called “performance data”, content interpreted by dedicated listeners behind the Nagios process….
Read MoreHakin9, a free monthly magazine on IT Security in its December edition published an article written by Luca Deri mentioning also the adoption of the nBox appliance with a pre-installed ntop and anProbe software. The magazine also pre-announced the 2011 edition of our Conference on Nagios & OSS Monitoring scheduled for the 12th of May. snort_exposed_hakin9_14-172 snort_exposed_hakin9_38-39
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