Use case: I want to deploy different dashboards for different Group Users or specific Users in NetEye4. At the following URL you can find the script: https://github.com/caragian/dashboard/tree/master/dashboard_configurator This script allows you to deploy a template dashboard to: A list of users All members of a specific AD group (LDAP) The requirements are: Python3 A user…
Read MoreLast week I had to implement monitoring checks for a customer’s host running an IBM iSeries server. As the monitoring for that is a bit particular, I’d like to share what I did, and also share with you an Icinga2 Basket containing the monitoring structure. Where to Find the Necessary Files You may download the…
Read MoreFixed a bug which overrides logstash certificates when neteye_secure_install is executed preventing external beats to connect to logstash. For NetEye 4.10 we updated: elasticsearch, elasticsearch-autosetup, elasticsearch-neteye-config, elasticsearch-xpack, elasticsearch-xpack-autosetup, kibana, kibana-autosetup, kibana-neteye-config, kibana-xpack, kibana-xpack-autosetup, logstash, logstash-neteye-config, logstash-neteye-config-autosetup, logstash-xpack, logstash-xpack-autosetup to version 7.4.0_neteye2.7.2-1
Read MoreA bug has been discovered on NetEye modules logmanagement and SIEM. If affected, rsyslog directories on system might be created with wrong permissions causing Logstash to be unable to load log lines of some hosts inside Elasticsearch. Users might also receive an error message trying to check signatures for some hosts inside Logmanager Log Check….
Read MoreThe use case of this blog is about monitoring COVID-19 in Italy. The data used is public, and the source is the Protezione Civile (Italian Civil Protection Office), which updates the data every day after 18:00 on GitHub at the following link: https://github.com/pcm-dpc/COVID-19/tree/master/ I found the data in various formats and I chose to analyze…
Read MoreKeeping historical data around for analysis is extremely useful but often avoided due to the financial cost of archiving massive amounts of data. Retention periods are thus driven by financial realities rather than by the usefulness of extensive historical data. The Elastic Stack data rollup features provide a means to summarize and store historical data…
Read MoreA missing information in the userguide was added. For NetEye 4.10 we updated: icingaweb2* to version 2.7.3_neteye1.64.1-1
Read MoreI have several clients who’ve asked me how they can prevent a brute force attack inside their Windows Infrastructure. This is the use case for this blog post, a solution for which I’ve been studying using NetEye together with its SIEM module. I’ve used a Windows client here, but it’s the same for any server…
Read MoreBefore I tell you about one of my latest customer requirements, I would like to briefly explain what our NetEye Tornado module is. In our user guide you will see it written that Tornado is the successor to NetEye’s Event Handler. It is a plugin-based, stateless, scalable rule matching engine written in Rust, based on…
Read MoreA bugfix in the menu of OCS Inventory was fixed inside the Asset Management Feature module. For NetEye 4.10 we updated: ocsinventory-ocsreports to version 2.6.0_neteye1.2.1-1 ocsinventory-ocsreports-autosetup to version 2.6.0_neteye1.2.1-1 ocsinventory-ocsreports-neteye-config to version 2.6.0_neteye1.2.1-1
Read MoreYes, we did it again! As every year FOSDEM is really inspiring for us, bringing important ideas and new solutions.
Read MoreThe Challenge: The automatic setup of around 80-90 SAP-Servers running several releases and flavors of SAP software in NetEye 4 by: Automatically importing SAP hosts, databases and instance definitions Automatically applying a set of basic services to each level of monitoring (OS, database, and SAP Basis) depending on the host, database and instance definitions imported…
Read MoreThis year’s NetEye User Group in its German edition will take place on May 7th at the Deutsche Bahn Museum in Nuremburg, Germany. Our clients are already reserving their places, and together we will shape the future of NetEye. The main topics will be our current SIEM approach to enhanced data security in the face of…
Read MoreWe released a fix of Logrotate policies, now the logrotate policy of httpd is rotated daily instead of weekly and old logs will be compressed. For NetEye 4.10 we updated: httpd-neteye-config to version 1.5.1-1 httpd-neteye-config-autosetup to version 1.5.1-1
Read MoreNotifications for service and host problems are an integral part of your monitoring setup, representing the responsive components of your monitoring system. You can configure actions based on changes in the status of monitored objects. While monitoring systems are incredibly useful for active interpretation and investigation, one of the primary benefits of a complete monitoring…
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