Bug Fixes for NetEye 4.6
Fixed NetEye cluster base setup accepting invalid characters in hostnames. For NetEye 4.6 we updated: neteye-setup to version 1.14.3-1
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Proxy Authentication with Grafana 6.2
Until now, authentication of NetEye users on Grafana was achieved by means of session cookies, which were provided by the Grafana server when authenticating in Icinga Web 2. However, with the upgrade of Grafana from version 5.2 to version 6.2, we can no longer employ this authentication procedure because Grafana has discontinued the use of…
Read MoreHow To Recover from a DRBD9 Metadata Split Brain Situation
As soon as you manage more than a few DRBD resources distributed over a wide set of hardware, split brain situations cannot always be avoided. Standard split brains are caused by multiple nodes having different opinions about the latest state of the data on their local disk. Disclaimer: If applied incorrectly, commands in this blog…
Read MoreUpdated Safed Agent v1.10.1 for UX
The Safed agent for AIX version 7.1 now supports TLS 1.3 based on WolfSSL 3.15.7. The Safed agent 1.10.1 for UX is available on our github repository. Follow the steps described in the README file to compile and install both wolfssl 3.15.7 and safed 1.10.1 After that is will be possible to configure the secure…
Read MoreHow to Debug NetEye Log Management
In a previous blog post I presented how the Log Management architecture fits in a NetEye cluster, and now I want to summarize my recent experiences to help you diagnose Elasticsearch health issues. Elasticsearch provides a set of APIs which help to identify and debug a number of potential causes. But NetEye Log Management is…
Read MoreNetwork Performance Monitoring Automation with NetEye 4
Automating the monitoring process in Enterprise environments is a challenge that led Icinga to create features such as their REST API and the Icinga Director module. In both new NetEye4 projects and those being migrated from NetEye3 to NetEye4, this challenge is one of the aspects that I highlight the most and is certainly one…
Read MoreA Simple Way to Deploy Linux Agents Using the Icinga 2 API
The Agent’s distribution is probably one of those more time-consuming tasks. This can be for various reasons: different operating systems, network segregation, administrative credentials that are difficult to obtain, or even more simply, a large number of Agents to install. We know that the Agent installation on Windows servers is made easier by this PowerShell…
Read MoreBug Fixes for NetEye 4.6
Fixed problem of icingaweb2-module-director-jobs.service being inactive by default For NetEye 4.6 we updated: icingaweb2-module-director to version 1.6.2_neteye1.6.3-2 neteye-setup to version 1.14.2-1
Read MoreExpanding Elastic Stack’s Set of Features
Last month, NetEye’s Elastic Stack received a much-awaited upgrade. The upgrade consisted of granting NetEye users the possibility of having access to the full set of features that the Elastic Stack provides upon setting up an additional NetEye SIEM subscription. Originally, the stack implemented on NetEye packaged the standard set of well-known ELK features: Elasticsearch,…
Read MoreKanban Boards 看板 in EriZone
These whiteboards with handdrawn swimlanes and lots of apparently randomly placed sticky notes are present nowadays in most developers’ offices. Kanban (Japanese for “signboard”) is however not just a visualization strategy. It originated as a method for production planning, first used at Toyota, and its ideas were adopted for software development 15 years ago. A…
Read MoreEriZone: A Simpler Way to Make Your Processes Simple
Dozens of new toy ideas arrive every day at Kenner Toys. Each of them must be evaluated and approved by all three partners: the brothers Huey (the Marketing Manager), Dewey (the Sales Manager) and Louie (the Finance Manager). They often travel to remote places around the world so it is Uncle Donald who must verify…
Read MoreInfluxDays London 2019
As did for the last year edition, our DevOps team participated at InfluxDays, a conference organized by InfluxData and focused on time series data. We were really looking at the event with excitement, for all the new features InfluxData is putting into the new InfluxDB 2.0. So, apart from grabbing a very nice t-shirt, we…
Read MoreGo pprof – How to Understand Where There is Memory Retention
Recently I had to face a problem concerning a daemon written in Go that was consuming all available memory – causing critical and unpredictable situations for all the other components of the system. The first alarm came from NetEye: There was something that was requesting more and more memory. It was easy to understand which…
Read MoreNetEye is Moving to a Completely Automated Upgrade Procedure
Process automation refers to the ability of a technological system to execute a series of tasks that were originally performed by humans. Such automation also controls, corrects and increases the visibility of the status of workflows and tasks, and generates reports throughout the process. The primary benefits of procedure automation are most surely productivity and…
Read MoreOEM Partnership with Elastic
Magic happens when collaboration really works and community spirit grows. This month, Würth Phoenix announced the expansion of its partnership with Elastic to make it faster and easier for users to deploy Elasticsearch within NetEye 4. Elastic is the company behind Elasticsearch, Kibana, Beats, and Logstash, an ecosystem of Open Source-based search and analytics tools….
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