Here we are with the second part of our article. If you missed the first one, here’s the link: https://www.neteye-blog.com/2022/03/jira-discovery-a-quick-way-to-manage-your-assets/ In this second part we will see how to import assets discovered using the Jira Discovery Tool. Let’s go into our Jira Service Management: Create a new Object Schema that we will call Import: Next…
Read MoreThe role of these two components is pretty clear: nProbe has the role of collecting traffic data, while nTop makes that data visible and easily analyzable. There is something, however, that needs to be explicitly stated, which is to decide whether it’s ntopng that should contact nProbe or vice versa, and as we’re in a…
Read MorenTop now uses the nDPI (network deep packet inspection) library to classify packets within network traffic for those protocols that either do not use a standard port (defined as well known ports like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_TCP_and_UDP_port_numbers and https://www.iana.org/assignments/service-names-port-numbers/service-names-port-numbers.xhtml) or that are dynamically assigned. In any case the need to classify not only the packet header but also…
Read MoreA customer with a NetEye installation to which I had added the NeDi module asked me if I could integrate the saved configuration files of “discovered” network devices with NeDi. NeDi, for those who are not yet familiar with it, is a Network Discovery tool based on many different network protocols. The first action NeDi…
Read MoreA customer with a NetEye installation to which I had added the nTop module asked me if I could integrate nTop’s Grafana Dashboards, so they could view them by consulting NetEye’s ITOA Menu. The installation and configuration of nTop for this client, a task I had already conducted some time ago, was a matter of…
Read MoreIntroduction As introduced in a previous post, Cisco’s APIC is a core component for several of our customers; it’s a complex solution that every user can employ to fully customize their configuration. There I explained how to monitor the APIC at a high level, summarizing the fault information tenant by tenant. Some customers needed to…
Read MoreWelcome to version 4.24 of our NetEye v4 Unified Monitoring Solution. In this release, NetEye hiked over the Seceda mountain, placed in Val Gardena/Grödental, to admire a wonderful view of the Fermeda pinnacles at sunrise. The Fermeda pinnacles, the southernmost ridge of the Odle group, offers an ideal environment to climbers, especially for ascents on…
Read MoreBoth Microsoft and Google will terminate within summer/autumn 2022 the possibility of accessing POP and IMAP mailboxes using usernames and passwords! In the course of the year 2022 Microsoft and Google will terminate support for Basic Auth (the authentication with username and password) for some web services and pass to a more secure method, often…
Read MoreIn the last few weeks I installed and configured some nBoxes with the new ntopng version 5.2. Now I’d like to briefly tell you all about it. For all of you who don’t know what an nBox is, I’ll relay the official definition here: nBox Recorder is a network traffic disk recorder application. With nBox…
Read MoreWelcome to version 4.23 of our NetEye v4 Unified Monitoring Solution. In the last two months, NetEye travelled from the western side of South Tyrol to eastern side, reaching the beautiful Lake Landro, located at more than 1,400 meters a.s.l. in the eponymous valley, near the municipality of Toblach/Dobbiaco. The lake is positioned between two…
Read MoreIn our previous post we discussed how to handle RD users using CMDO, focusing on the scripts needed to obtain a unique identifier for each users in the RD Farm. In this post I want to focus on how to create the CMDO commands and set their permissions correctly. Our user caseAs an admin I…
Read MoreRecently a customer told me he would like to monitor and graph the values that his Fortigate Firewall was generating for his configured SLA Trackers. What are these SLA Trackers? I informed myself and found the following in a Fortigate Cookbook. Fortigate Performance SLA ─ Link Monitoring Performance SLA link monitoring measures the health of…
Read MoreAre you a user of Jira Service Management Cloud, do you have the premium version and would you like to use the discovery tool to have a scheme where you can automatically receive updates on devices connected to your network? Well, follow this very simple tutorial and you will have a mapping of your network…
Read MoreDuring my experience as a Würth Phoenix consultant, I’ve seen a pretty long list of broken Icinga 2 configurations. Several times, customers have begun a scheduled meeting with something like “Hey mister consultant, ever since the last deploy some objects have stopped being monitored, but I don’t see any errors!”. After some troubleshooting, everything always…
Read MoreAs is by now almost a tradition, this year I am again writing a blog post about the SOS JobScheduler. In this blog I’d like to introduce you to some major changes and improvements to the SOS Berlin JobScheduler. As has already been officially announced on the SOS Berlin website, beginning with Release 2.0.0 the…
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