Security issues are currently at the forefront of a comprehensive monitoring attention: the performance of business-critical IT applications must be guaranteed even against the background of increasing cyber attacks. This was the main topic of our first Live Meeting session, with Security Auditor Günter Aigle presenting how availability, integrity and confidentiality create more security in…
Read MoreLa trasformazione digitale crea continue nuove sfide per la gestione IT. Sono ora necessarie tecniche di monitoraggio avanzate, distribuite, scalabili ed automatizzate per analizzare quantità sempre maggiori di dati. NetEye, nella versione 4, accetta la sfida! NetEye offre una piattaforma di controllo completa in grado di raccogliere dati sulle prestazioni da ciascun sistema, analizzandoli rapidamente…
Read MoreWith the rapidly advancing digitalization of the economy, the availability of IT is becoming business-critical. Unplanned downtime is no longer acceptable, 24/7 operation is indispensable. For administrators, this means that they have to identify incidents before they lead to damaging behaviors in business processes. AIOps promises support in this direction. The digital transformation or our…
Read MoreUntil the NetEye 4.10 release, the Tornado module inside NetEye handled communications between its components (the Tornado Collectors and the Tornado Engine) via direct, clear-text TCP connections. On local systems, this configuration does not represent a limitation, since in this case there is no requirement to verify the identity of the peer (it is always…
Read MoreInfluxDB is the database used in NetEye for saving performance data. It guarantees graphic visibility of the data (thanks to the Grafana frontend) and it is very important that the data stored is useful. I’ll give you an example of how simple it can be to produce obsolete data in Influx: Suppose I create a…
Read MoreIn a previous post, Valentina showed us how to configure Slack Notifications… and here I will similarly show you how to configure Telegram notifications on NetEye. Create a Telegram Bot A very easy way to create a bot on Telegram is through … another bot 😉 BotFather is a Telegram bot dedicated to the creation…
Read MoreA common issue in cluster environment is the split brain condition. A split brain occurs when some nodes of the cluster are not able to communicate properly, but instead continue to work like two separate, distinct clusters leading to data or service inconsistency. To prevent this situation a common solution is to introduce the concept…
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 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 MoreStarting in March 2020, Microsoft will release an update which includes hardening measures for LDAP binding. Read the full advisory here: https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-us/security-guidance/advisory/ADV190023 . This affects all of us who still use plain LDAP to perform queries in Active Directory. Starting in March we will be forced to use secure LDAP binding, because AD will deny…
Read MoreWithin Internet provider companies, very often we are asked to calculate the amount of Internet bandwidth in order to bill any excess use of bandwidth to each customer. We decided to make this calculation completely customizable using NetEye together with the built-in tools Icinga2, InfluxDB and Grafana. Phase 1 Using an SNMP check, we measure…
Read MoreRegularly updating operating systems is now an essential task. And the operating system at the base of NetEye (CentOS 7) must be regularly updated. But I still find many customers who for lack of time forget these updates and ask me if it’s possible to get an automatic report of them. And here I found…
Read MoreA manual user configuration migration is required before upgrading to 4.10. Starting in version 4.9, NetEye supports Grafana user management, which is completely integrated into NetEye via its existing roles mechanism. NetEye administrators can create new roles that map to Grafana roles (admin, editor or viewer) at the level of organizations and teams. NetEye users must then be…
Read MoreScheduling downtime is extremely useful, if not essential, for the correct management of a monitoring system. What exactly is downtime and what is the reason for having it? “Downtime can be scheduled for planned server maintenance or any other targeted service outage you are aware of in advance. Downtime suppresses notifications and can trigger other…
Read MoreOne frequently noted problem in AX 2012 is the performance of inventory on-hand. The worst part is that while the problem is known, the solutions aren’t. You can try to solve it by guessing and poking around, but you may never discover the true underlying cause. And it’s also a bit of a naughty beast: here today, gone…
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