Hi 😀 Today I’d like to explore with you a migration that we performed to a service that’s used internally to monitor the performance of various DBs, gathering data that’s especially useful for troubleshooting. This tool is the Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) platform, which combines agents or direct access to various supported DBMS (MySQL,…
Read MoreIn some test or development environments, you may need to simulate the presence of GSM modems without having an actual physical device. This can be useful for example when testing monitoring checks, SMS management systems, or creating new notification rules. In this post I’ll show you how I created a serial modem emulation service. The…
Read MoreScenario NetEye 4 provides a graphical engine to represent time series monitoring data stored in an Influx database: the Grafana engine accessible through the ITOA menu on the left hand side. Grafana is very powerful: it consists of a dashboard built up of multiple individual panels. A lot of them are native to Grafana, but…
Read MoreToday I’d like to share a peculiar request I received during one of my recent Consulting Sessions. It’s just a highly specific Business Case, but it led me to wonder: what if I could find a way to generalize it? For now, that’s just a fantasy, but let me tell you the whole story so…
Read MoreDo you have a SIEM installation based on Elasticsearch (like the NetEye 4 SIEM Module) and are you sending data to it from your hosts? Then you’ll surely want to know whether your host is actually sending data, or if nothing is coming out at all. For this I made available a simple icinga/nagios plugin…
Read MoreThe event of the year, the NetEye User Group, is back! The User group is not only a chance to inform our customers about new products and releases, but also an occasion to meet and exchange feedback and ideas. This year the NetEye Usergroup took place in Rocca Sveva, a centuries old villa located in…
Read More…also this year, Würth Phoenix & Gravitate organized the annual Usergroup DACH 2023 in Nuremberg. The Usergroup is not only a chance to inform our customers about new products and releases, but also an occasion to meet and exchange feedback and ideas. This year’s NetEye Usergroup took place in Nuremberg in the Romantik Hotel Rottner,…
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 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 MoreRules and standards are important. In a world based on collaboration, following a well defined behavior is key for avoiding errors based on some sort of misunderstanding. This is also true for the world of information technology: someone releases software that is incomplete by design, and then leaves the completion of it to the people…
Read MoreDirector is one of the most important modules in NetEye 4 because it’s used for managing, automating and deploying the configurations of all monitored objects. In all our projects we use automation in Director: through the Import and Synchronization rules we can automate many operations such as the import and synchronization of hosts, service checks,…
Read MoreAs you have surely read from the release notes of NetEye 4.27, we have integrated ClickHouse to be able to use the historical flows and alerts feature of ntopng. What is ClickHouse? Directly from the official website: ClickHouse is a column-oriented database management system (DBMS) for online analytical processing of queries (OLAP). ClickHouse’s performance exceeds…
Read MoreLast time I wrote about how you can have incoming SMS messages sent to the Tornado Engine so that you can make Tornado Rules to process them. This time I’d like to show you a real use case where we check whether the SMS Gateway is really working or not by sending an SMS to…
Read MoreThe event of the year, the NetEye User Group, is back again, in presence! The User group is not only a chance to inform our customers about new products and releases, but also an occasion to meet and exchange feedback and ideas. This year’s NetEye User group took place in the beautiful city of Verona…
Read MoreIt-sa is Europe’s largest trade fair for IT security… and we were there! This fair has taken place in Nuremberg since 2009, and is the meeting point for all decision makers and experts in IT security. It’s the #placetobe for all those searching for security solutions and for learning from major experts in the field. …
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