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28. 04. 2023 Juergen Vigna Icinga Web 2, NetEye, Unified Monitoring

Elasticsearch Snapshots and How to Monitor Them

If you have a NetEye with SIEM Module activated or own an Elasticsearch installation then you have surely activated the Elasticsearch Snapshots to make backups of all your indexes (or at least the important ones). However you have to take a regular look at your Snapshots Reports to check that everything is working correctly. I…

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21. 04. 2023 Alessandro Romboli Business Service Monitoring, NetEye, Unified Monitoring

Monitoring Veritas Backup Exec

Scenario Veritas Backup Exec is widely used for the backup of physical machines through local installed agents both on Windows and Linux hosts. It also supports application backup for Microsoft Exchange, SharePoint and several different Database engines, with the option of a granular application data restore. The product additionally supports virtual backup through Hyper-V and…

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29. 12. 2022 Rocco Pezzani NetEye

Finding 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…

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28. 12. 2022 Giuseppe Di Garbo NetEye

Monitoring 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,…

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12. 12. 2022 Mattia Codato NetEye, Uncategorized, Unified Monitoring

ClickHouse – High Availability Cluster

As you have surely read from the release notes of NetEye 4.27, we have integrated ClickHouse to be able to use the historical flows and alerts feature of ntopng. What is ClickHouse? Directly from the official website: ClickHouse is a column-oriented database management system (DBMS) for online analytical processing of queries (OLAP). ClickHouse’s performance exceeds…

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21. 11. 2022 Juergen Vigna NetEye, Unified Monitoring

Monitor Your SMS Gateways by Sending Actual SMS’s (Part 2/2)

Last time I wrote about how you can have incoming SMS messages sent to the Tornado Engine so that you can make Tornado Rules to process them. This time I’d like to show you a real use case where we check whether the SMS Gateway is really working or not by sending an SMS to…

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16. 11. 2022 Elena Valgoi Events, NetEye, SEC4U, Unified Monitoring

NETEYE USER GROUP 2022… back again! #italianedition

The event of the year, the NetEye User Group, is back again, in presence! The User group is not only a chance to inform our customers about new products and releases, but also an occasion to meet and exchange feedback and ideas. This year’s NetEye User group took place in the beautiful city of Verona…

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28. 10. 2022 Elena Valgoi Events, NetEye, Unified Monitoring

WÜRTH 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. …

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19. 09. 2022 Elena Valgoi Events, NetEye, SEC4U, Unified Monitoring

NETEYE USERGROUP 2022… NUREMBERG EDITION!

After two years of online events, we finally made it to organize a live event in Germany! And it was a huge success! The Usergroup is not only a chance to inform our customers about new products and releases, but also an occasion to meet and exchange feedback and ideas. This year’s NetEye Usergroup took…

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19. 07. 2022 Enrico Alberti Contribution, NetEye, Unified Monitoring

Integration of Centreon Plugins into NetEye Extension Packs

With the end of 2021 we’ve release the first version of the NetEye Extension Packs project that helps customers and consultants on their monitoring implementations and more (see Introducing NetEye Extension Packs | www.neteye-blog.com for details). Now our focus is to extend the ouf of box infrastructure coverage of our monitoring plugins. With this target…

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02. 03. 2022 Damiano Chini APM, Log-SIEM, NetEye

Observing Events in Tornado with Elastic APM

Sometimes you’d just really like to have an overview of what happens to the Events that flow through Tornado. Where do they come from? Did they get stuck somewhere in the Collectors or in Tornado? Which Tornado Actions did they trigger? Gathering all this information from hundreds of log lines across different services (i.e., Tornado…

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31. 12. 2021 Damiano Chini Development, NetEye

Tornado Monitoring and Statistics

When I’m running a service which processes a lot of data, sooner or later I start to wonder: what is the service doing? What data is it processing? This also applies to our event processor Tornado. For the Tornado Engine, the administrator may wonder for example how many events Tornado is receiving, how many actions…

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10. 12. 2021 Franco Federico APM, NetEye, Real User Experience, Visual Synthetic Monitoring

NEP Alyvix – Ready for Use

Together with the NetEye 4.21 release, we also released NEP (an abbreviation that stands for NetEye Extension Packs) and now it’s possible to install it using the RPM present in the Official NetEye Repositories. If you are interested in this topic, I invite you to look at how these NEPs have been set up. The…

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22. 10. 2021 Franco Federico NetEye, Unified Monitoring

Monitoring Dynamic Folders with Icinga DSL

We were recently asked how to dynamically monitor folders with Icinga. Several of our clients monitor folders whose names change from day to day. For example, suppose every day I want to see if there is a file named with the date of that particular day, or I’d like to see if there is a…

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30. 06. 2021 Enrico Alberti Icinga Web 2, NetEye

Monitoring Windows Systems through Icinga Powershell Plugins

During migrations from NetEye 3 to NetEye 4, I often run into really outdated monitoring checks in the Windows world, where the last update was more than 10 years ago… and whose logic is therefore now completely obsolete! The time for change is now!!! In the last year Icinga released a really interesting project that…

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