The example project used in this article is available on GitHub. A few months ago I started exploring Cockpit and the first thing I noticed is how every single Cockpit module is made with React. Why doesn’t anybody use Vue.js and/or TypeScript in Cockpit? Let’s start with the basics: what is Cockpit? Quoting RedHat: Cockpit…
Read MoreIn my previous blog-post I wrote an introduction to pipelining in OpenShift. This blog post is a follow-up to explain how to trigger a pipeline automatically. Tekton triggers are quite complex and need some explanation in order to be understood. To trigger a pipeline you need several components. In the graph below you can see…
Read MoreIt’s been a while since my last blog post about our OpenShift journey since as a devops team, we’ve been focusing on other activities for a while. Today I’d like to talk a bit about how to use OpenShift for CI purposes. As described in our productive use case, we implemented several pipelines to build…
Read MoreWe updated the Elastic Stack to the latest bugfix version 7.17.11. In particular this version fixes a problem in Kibana, which was not properly handling some particular DSL queries. For more information on the fixes provided with this version, please refer to the official Elastic Stack website. In case you have any Elasticsearch plugin installed…
Read MoreWe have released a fix for a problem related to RedHat subscriptions. Updated packages We updated the following packages:
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 MoreWe fixed a bug that regards the validation of the hostname of a NetEye node. Now is possible to use names starting with upper case characters without any problem. Updated packages For NetEye 4.30 we updated the following packages:
Read MoreWe fixed a bug that regards the neteye alyvix-node setup command, which was not specifying the version of the Alyvix API to consume, thus leading to an error. Updated packages For NetEye 4.30 we updated the following packages:
Read MoreI’m not one to follow a lot of the latest YouTube trends. Maybe it’s an age thing, though it could also just be a stubborn streak. But after you make enough videos, you start to recognize a good thing when you see it. And one thing that struck me recently were a number of great…
Read MoreWe fixed a bug that regards the neteye upgrade/update process: since there was the risk of failures when the first node of a cluster was already in a standby status, now we implemented an additional check about this possible case. Updated packages For NetEye 4.30 we updated the following packages:
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 MoreCustom Variables are widely used in the NetEye 4 (Icinga) monitoring system in order to tag/add information to a host/service. In order to speed up setting these variables, users use the inheritance mechanism to inherit them from parent objects (i.e. hosts). This feature is very useful, but sometimes it can create some doubt about what…
Read MoreWe fixed an issue where the check of the upgrade prerequisites was failing in case no prerequisites were found. Updated packages For NetEye 4.30 we updated the following packages:
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 MoreIn one of my previous posts I mentioned the importance of downtime scheduling and shared an interesting example of a PowerShell script for managing downtime in Windows environments. Recently a customer asked me how to manage downtime with a similar solution, but for several hundred Linux servers monitored under NetEye. The reason is very simple:…
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