Bug Fixes for NetEye 4.27
We fixed the default configuration paths used to send SMS messages. For NetEye 4.27 we updated the following packages:
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Blog Entries
Using GLPI with the Metabase Open Source BI Tool for Visualizing Rich Reports and Dashboards
Asset management/CMDB tools play (or should play!) a central role in IT operations and management, gathering data from hardware assets on contracts, software licenses, network configurations, tickets and many more. The key task is to keep all this data consistent and up to date. Rigor in manual data insertion and the careful integration of automation…
Read MoreFocus on the noPac Attack
In December 2021 Microsoft revealed two vulnerabilities concerning an Active Directory Domain Services privilege elevation, classified as CVE-2021-42278 and CVE-2021-42287. By combining the two exploits in the so-called noPac attack, a malicious actor could perform a privilege escalation by impersonating the Domain Administrator after starting out as a standard user. This would lead to a…
Read MoreData-driven Models – the Ultimate Fighter against a Company’s Complexity 👊 – Use Case Part 2 of 2
Guidelines on Data-driven models for managing data complexity and designing robust systems that might be consider both a single-source-of-truth and a single-point-of-contact. Use case scenario about a real Managed Service Provider ITSM with Atlassian Cloud products As mentioned in my previous post (Part 1 of 2), data-driven models help companies in managing data complexity and…
Read MoreMaking Your Own Video (Tutorials), Part 11: Recording Day
So you read the advice I wrote in parts 1-9, you think to yourself “Oh why not, I’ll try to make a video”, and you then plan everything out: where to film, what to say, how to dress, the equipment you need, etc. You’ll pick or reserve a room somewhere in your office building (we’re…
Read MoreStart Using systemd Timers instead of cron/anacron
systemd timers are a way to schedule tasks in Linux systems using the systemd initialization system. They provide finer granularity for scheduling tasks than the traditional crontab, and also ensure that the task will be executed when the system is running in the future, even if the expected execution time was missed due to the…
Read MoreFinding Subtle Changes in your NetEye 4 Monitoring during Critical Activities
Rules 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 MoreMonitoring Automation in Director
Director 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 MoreAdding Settings to Beats Agents’ Templates Based on the Index Name
With the introduction of the Composable Index Templates in Elastic, we at NetEye had to redesign the way index settings and mappings are applied to the indices generated by El Proxy. In this post I’ll explain: The solution explained in the remainder of the post was designed for El Proxy, but it may apply also…
Read MoreConfiguring ClickHouse as an Additional Data Source in Grafana
As mentioned in my colleague Mattia’s blog, NetEye 4.27 comes with a ClickHouse database pre-installed.If you follow that post, you will be able to customize NetEye in order to save data inside a ClickHouse database. Your data is now ready to be visualized on a dashboard, and you can accomplish this by configuring the ClickHouse…
Read MoreExporting Grafana Graphs to CSV
Some time ago, a customer asked me if it was possible to export the data used by NetEye 4 Performance Graphs to CSV format. In particular, the performance graphs that are displayed within Icinga 2’s web interface currently have no option to export their data. After some research, I found that the only way to…
Read MoreMaking Your Own Video (Tutorials), Part 11: Animation Redux
After my last post on the advantages and disadvantages of the animation style of video, I hope you did your homework! I certainly did, and you can see the results of my first animated video that conveys some basic information on the need for cybersecurity both in English and in Italian. Probably like you, I…
Read MoreHow We Verify the Integrity of El Proxy Blockchains Altered by a Retention
El Proxy helps in compliance with GDPR regulations, which, besides the rest, imposes guarantees on the integrity of data and ensures that the data is kept for no longer than a predefined period of time. El Proxy ensures the integrity of the data by saving the data in El Proxy blockchains. The guarantee that data…
Read MoreMeet the SOC Weekly Reports, a New Way to Inform Customers
One of the most comprehensive services offered by Wuerth-Phoenix’s Cyber Security team is the Security Operation Center (SOC). An SOC is capable of monitoring an IT environment, scanning all messages sent within the internal network, and all operations performed on corporate devices. Through the use of detection rules, the SOC is able to identify anomalies…
Read MoreProtected: Some Insight into the Differences between AV and EDR
There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
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