The Business Process module is one of the most useful modules in NetEye, but it’s often underestimated. A Business Process offers a way to model relations between monitored objects by NetEye (host and services), allowing you to model applications or infrastructures. They also allow you to drill down into the details, from high-level services to…
Read MoreDuring 2021 we decided to officially support Satellites as part of NetEye. Satellites were already widely used by our customers, in particular as part of the Icinga 2 monitoring infrastructure, but a complex manual configuration was required to install them. The development team faced a difficult challenge in fully supporting Satellites: providing an easy-to-use solution…
Read MoreWelcome to the next installment in my series on creating video tutorials on technical topics that you can upload to YouTube, and in particular in this article, on continuously improving the quality as you create more and more tutorials over time. There’s a method in the art/design community called iteration, where creative groups improve on…
Read MoreIn the enormous world of Log Collection, quite often customers need to collect logs from various systems in remote locations, like from an office in another country. For Icinga we know that the latest NetEye 4.20 release fully supports distributed monitoring, but what about the Log Manager and SIEM modules? Is it possible to use…
Read MoreWe fixed a bug in NetEye 4.21 that allowed unauthorized ssh users to access an icinga2 api password with read privileges. For NetEye 4.21 we updated the following packages: elastic-blockchain-proxy and elastic-blockchain-proxy-autosetup to version 1.18.1-1
Read MoreHPE Nimble Storage is a data storage solution, created by Nimble Storage, which was bought by HPE in 2017. Recently I had to monitor such a storage service and for this I used the following plugin: check_nimble_health_api.py Nimble offers a REST Web API to query its status and that’s what this plugin uses. Unfortunately it’s…
Read MoreOr: a Tool for Collecting, Browsing and Analyzing IP and Hostname Data Available Across Your Organization Take any discretely large, organically grown company network, and you’ll find an interplay of heterogeneous servers, network devices, computers, printers, virtual machines, embedded devices and more. Do you have documentation on all the assets in the network, both the…
Read MoreOne of the strongest points of NetEye is the extremely high level of customization that you can reach. It allows any customer to set up their environment for an almost perfect fit to their own needs or desires. This is typically achieved with the work of our Consultant Team in understanding each customer’s needs, and…
Read MoreIn my last post I described an easy, developer-oriented setup for a website based on the Grav file-based content management system, along with the EasyDev PHP development suite that contributes PHP, Apache and MySQL (although the latter isn’t necessary for Grav to operate). Used together, you can build quite sophisticated user-facing sites. Today I’m going…
Read MoreWe fixed a bug in NetEye 4.21 that caused the healthcheck command to fail when executed on NetEye Satellites. For NetEye 4.21 we updated the following packages: tornado, tornado-autosetup, tornado-common, tornado-neteye-config to version 1.12.1-1
Read MoreWe fixed a bug in NetEye 4.21 that caused the selected interface to be lost when navigating between pages. For NetEye 4.21 we updated the following packages: icingaweb2-module-ntopng, icingaweb2-module-ntopng-autosetup to version 1.5.4-1
Read MoreProject data and documentation management is always a challenge. Using macros within your Confluence pages can definitely help with this, especially those that create live charts and reports on the linked Jira project. After following these simple steps, in just a few minutes you’ll have: 📌 A better idea of how to organize Confluence Pages…
Read More(Edition in Italian) Thank you for your participation. It was a great pleasure having you at the online NetEye User Group IT 2021 on November 18th! Thanks to each and every one of you for participating, your feedback and inputs. For those who missed the live event or want to watch it again, we’ve uploaded…
Read MoreSynopsis Important: Elasticsearch and Logstash security mitigation Type/Severity Security Advisory: Important Topic A mitigation for Logstash and Elasticsearch is now available for NetEye 3. NetEye Product Security has rated this mitigation as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for…
Read MoreSynopsis Important: Elasticsearch and Logstash security updates Type/Severity Security Advisory: Important Topic An update for Logstash and Elasticsearch is now available for NetEye 4.20 and 4.21. NetEye Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is…
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