Bug Fixes for NetEye 4.24 – 4.26
We fixed a bug in the PHP configuration where it would not be read by the services started by systemd. For NetEye 4.24 – 4.26 we updated the following packages: php-neteye-config to version 1.2.1-1
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A Developer’s Life is Like a Box of Chocolates: You Never Know What Bug You’re Gonna Get – Part 1
Intro In this post I’d like to explain the technique I chose to discover the cause of a bug I recently worked on, and why I made certain choices, given the not-so-common circumstances: part of a GUI I was debugging stopped working. It depended on third-party code and was therefore largely unfamiliar to me. Another…
Read MoreBug Fixes for NetEye 4.25
We fixed a bug in El Proxy, for which the automatic verification breaks when the retention of Elasticsearch is applied. The bug fix introduced the concept of blockchain state history and this, if the retention of Elasticsearch already deleted some logs, will throw a warning during the first verification after the update. For NetEye 4.25…
Read MoreBug Fixes for NetEye 4.26
We fixed a bug in El Proxy, for which the automatic verification breaks when the retention of Elasticsearch is applied. The bug fix introduced the concept of blockchain state history and this, if the retention of Elasticsearch already deleted some logs, will throw a warning during the first verification after the update. For NetEye 4.26…
Read MoreCreating Compelling Stacked Bar Charts with Grafana
Grafana is an open source data visualization application that is widely used for displaying interactive monitoring and service dashboards. It focuses on a high-performance visualization of time series data, such as network throughput, access time, or CPU performance data. For this, it connects to specific time series databases such as InfluxDB, but also to common…
Read MoreWÜRTH PHOENIX GOES TO… IT-SA! (NUREMBERG)
It-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. …
Read MoreReceiving and Handling Incoming SMS’s on NetEye in Tornado (Part 1/2)
Most physical NetEye servers have an SMS Gateway attached in order to send CRITICAL notifications via an SMS message, since this will work even when the main network is down. However, sometimes you just want to send messages to your NetEye server’s SMS Gateway in order to effect certain actions, for example just to check…
Read MoreSyslog Collection with Elastic under Distributed NetEye Monitoring
Anyone who has joined the beautiful world of logging has collided, sooner or later, with the collection via syslog protocol. More than 40 years have passed since syslog was invented, and in that time there have been several attempts by the IETF to create a standard around this world (RFC 3164 and RFC 5424). Even…
Read MoreA Custom Dashboard for Windows and Linux Servers
The performance graphs present in NetEye are very useful for getting an immediate idea of the trend related to a service check, but they’re still limited to the metric being viewed. Also, the “Show all graphs” option available from the Actions menu of each monitored Host can have different usage limits due to the presence…
Read MoreGlusterFS on NetEye 4 and RedHat 8
As you’ve probably read in a previous blog by my colleague Jürgen Vigna, we use GlusterFS for particular requirements in our NetEye 4 cluster environments. After we completed the migration from the operating system CentOS 7 to RedHat 8, a few small things have changed or been updated. For all those who are new to…
Read MoreDescription of a Forensics Challenge – HTB Business CTF 2022
For those who don’t know, several of us at Wuerth-Phoenix often participate in Capture The Flag (CTF) events. CTFs are programming challenges where a message (the flag) is hidden somewhere inside code, an application or a website. Usually they are divided into different categories, and within this article we’ll focus on a forensics challenge. I…
Read MoreNetEye User Group 2022 in Verona 👁🗨
Here we go again! 🤩 Join us for the physical NetEye User Group, Italian edition, on 9th November 2022, from 9.30 AM to 5 PM at the Winter Garden Crowne Plaza in Verona! A day full of vITality! After a welcoming introduction, you’ll get to know all the news and strategic info about NetEye and…
Read MoreThe Most Important Question in Product Development
Communication is the single most important thing whenever and wherever people interact. Communication is the key to great relationships both in business and also in personal life, however it seems like it’s also the hardest thing to get right. When a software product evolves, between the birth of a good idea, the formalization of a…
Read MoreIcinga Web 2 | AIA Module
In my time at Wuerth Phoenix I’ve worked on upgrading the customactions and ondutymanager neteye modules, as well as developing a new module called AIA, which stands for Alert Interval Adjustment. In this blog post I’ll talk about the AIA module. The Pitch Suppose you’re a large company with a vast and complex IT infrastructure….
Read MoreMonitoring COMMVAULT via API in NetEye 4
Commvault software is an enterprise-level data platform used to back up, restore, archive, replicate, and search data. The software is available across cloud and on-premises environments, and a lot of customers are using this solution as part of their infrastructure. And in such situations the necessity arises to develop a solution for integrating COMMVAULT information…
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