Scenario NetEye 4 is a comprehensive monitoring platform which natively supports Icinga 2 checks on remote hosts and devices. Several Icinga 2 checks support an historical view of the status. An example is the firewall interface performance status below, which displays a Performance Graph: Getting a better overview All the graph data generated by the…
Read MoreWelcome to version 4.31 of our NetEye v4 Unified Monitoring Solution. In this new release, NetEye welcomes us with the beautiful colors of “Via dei Portici” in the Altstadt “Old City” of Bolzano. Since 1180 it is one of the oldest streets in the city, hosting a lot of trade activities due to its position…
Read MoreAt the end of June, Luca Deri gave a webinar presenting the new features of the next ntopng release. I’d like to take this opportunity now to present these innovations to all of you. The main enhancements of the new release have been made in the following areas: Extension of the ntopng functionalities for the…
Read MoreIn GLPI Remote Inventory – Part 1 I described how to perform a remote inventory of Linux machines. Here in Part 2 I’ll describe instead how to perform a remote inventory on Windows machines using the WinRM (Windows Remote Management) protocol through an HTTPS listener. In order to create and use an HTTPS Listener on…
Read MoreSince NetEye version 4.29, the GLPI module has been upgraded to version 10. With this update GLPI introduced a new feature, making it possible to perform agentless inventories. Given the wide interest regarding this new feature from many of our customers, I decided to describe the steps necessary to be able to configure, link, and…
Read MoreWelcome to version 4.30 of our NetEye v4 Unified Monitoring Solution. In this release, NetEye goes to one of the most famous places in the Alps: the “Tre Cime di Lavaredo” or “Drei Zinnen”. They are considered among the best-known natural wonders in the world, as well as being one of the UNESCO World Heritage…
Read MoreMonitoring systems acquire information from various devices in different ways: API, SNMP, syslog, etc. One of the most important methods in Icinga-based systems like NetEye is the Icinga Agent. This agent is installed on each server and collects and sends information to the master NetEye node using secure protocols. When we work within a small…
Read MoreIf you have a NetEye with SIEM Module activated or own an Elasticsearch installation then you have surely activated the Elasticsearch Snapshots to make backups of all your indexes (or at least the important ones). However you have to take a regular look at your Snapshots Reports to check that everything is working correctly. I…
Read MoreToday I’d like to tell you about the possibility of alerting when anomalies in network traffic are encountered. I use ntopng to generate, evaluate and forward these alerts. If you don’t know about ntopng, let me briefly describe for you what it does. According to its creator, ntopng is a High-Speed Web-based Traffic Analysis and…
Read MoreScenario Veritas Backup Exec is widely used for the backup of physical machines through local installed agents both on Windows and Linux hosts. It also supports application backup for Microsoft Exchange, SharePoint and several different Database engines, with the option of a granular application data restore. The product additionally supports virtual backup through Hyper-V and…
Read MoreA very important, fast-evolving area during the latest NetEye releases has been multi-tenancy. In a system with many tenants, the most complex aspect is probably the proper and orderly management of user permissions. To help administrators in this task, we have introduced the concept of tenant role in NetEye 4.29. The tenant role is a…
Read MoreWelcome to version 4.29 of our NetEye v4 Unified Monitoring Solution. With this release, NetEye welcomes us with a spectacular sunset view and a beautiful flower, symbol of the Dolomites. The Edelweiss, or “Stella Alpina”, is a protected flower that grows in high altitudes among the bare and rugged rocks of our mountains. Its gentleness…
Read MoreThe ongoing evolution of the world of work also carries through to the areas where this work is carried out. Never before have so many people and companies finally understood that smart working is a reality, and that the productivity of employees who work partly at home rather than the office does not decrease but…
Read MoreNagVis is a visualization add-on for NetEye, and can be used to show NetEye monitoring data, over for example, a Network Schema as the use case below will show you. Thanks to NagVis, you can import a previously created network schema into NetEye, and overlay network objects that have previously been monitored by NetEye. Let’s…
Read MoreNetEye provides its users with the GeoMap module, and recently a customer asked me to prepare a useful GeoMap configuration for him, so he could geographically locate the backbone devices in his network. The NetEye Geo Map module allows you to overlay the position and status of hosts on top of a customizable map, based…
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