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27. 10. 2020 Arianna Cunaccia Webinar

Cyber Security with ntopng and nScrub

Identify and Mitigate Attacks  Protecting against cyber-attacks is becoming a top-priority for corporates around the world. An effective strategy for the protection against such events should focus at least on two dimensions, namely threat intelligence and perimeter defense. Using ntopng and nscrub we demonstrate how to effectively identify and mitigate threats in corporate networks with practical recommendations, guidelines and future directions to effectively…

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02. 10. 2020 Damiano Chini Development, NetEye

NetEye Communication over NATS

In a previous post we talked about how in NetEye we migrated all the Tornado communications from direct TCP to NATS. Since then, we’ve extensively and successfully adopted NATS as a communication channel for many of the components present in NetEye. As often happens when approaching new technologies, the initial straightforward approach did not turn…

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30. 09. 2020 Stefano Bruno NetEye, Unified Monitoring

Monitoring with Your Own Icinga DSL Script

In this article I’ll talk about Icinga DSL and how it can be extremely useful if you want to compute thresholds. Our goal today is to be able to change certain monitoring thresholds when some parameters change. Example The example I propose is the following: I’m a system administrator, and I would like the warning…

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28. 09. 2020 Mattia Codato Contribution, Development, Icinga News, NetEye, Unified Monitoring

NetEye – Icinga2 Execute Command API

In the last few weeks, we collaborated with the Icinga2 developers to create a new powerful API, called “Execute Command“. The main purpose of this new API is to execute specific commands on a node by sending the request to the parent node. This is useful when the user cannot reach the desired node (an…

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01. 09. 2020 Alessandro Valentini Icinga Web 2, NetEye

NetPye: how to use a RaspberryPi as NetEye Satellite

This article explains how to set up a NetEye4 satellite using a Raspberry Pi. This is not an official guide and this solution is not officially supported. As test-bed I used a Raspberry Pi 4B with 4GB of ram, 32GB microSD card and NetEye 4.12 single-node installation as master. Master Configuration Add a new zone…

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20. 08. 2020 Rocco Pezzani NetEye, Unified Monitoring

Understand Which Agents you Need to Upgrade

As you may already know, starting with version 4.12 NetEye 4 upgraded its Icinga 2 engine from version 2.10.5 to version 2.11.3. At every training session, I always emphasize this rule: Icinga 2 Master Instance version >= Icinga 2 Satellite Instance version >= Icinga 2 Agent Instance version And thus everyone expects that his or…

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19. 08. 2020 Giuseppe Di Garbo Icinga Web 2, NetEye

NetEye 4 Template Library (NTL) and Icinga Template Library

NetEye4 provides the Icinga Template Library and includes several plugins ready for use. The Icinga Template Library (ITL) implements standard templates and object definitions which allows for the very quick and effective use of plugins. These definitions are read-only and available through the Icinga Director > Commands > External Commands menu. Most of the plugins…

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18. 08. 2020 Franco Federico Log-SIEM

Why NetEye SIEM?

As the number of cybercrime events, incidents of identity theft, theft of intellectual property, and cyberattacks continue to rise, there is an increasing need to provide adequate network security to defend against these types of threats to organizations. Defending against these types of threats is very difficult for an organization, and the attacker will always…

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01. 07. 2020 Damiano Chini NetEye

NetEye Agent: a New Daemon for Supervising the NetEye Installation

Beginning in NetEye 4.12 we introduced the neteye upgrade command, which enables NetEye users to automatically and safely perform a number of tasks needed to complete a NetEye upgrade, both in single instance environments as well as in cluster environments (have a look here for more information about the neteye upgrade command). In order to…

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17. 06. 2020 Gerhard Schenk NetEye

The New NetEye Release – Thank You for Attending

Thanks for attending our webinar yesterday on the new NetEye Release. We hope you enjoyed it! If your question wasn’t answered during the live event, we plan on getting back to you within the next day or two. You can access the slides below. Please feel free to pass these along to colleagues who may…

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04. 06. 2020 Gerhard Schenk Log-SIEM, NetEye

How To Operate SIEM Under GDPR

Security information and event management (SIEM) systems plays an important role in helping your organization comply with GDPR requirements. Find out in this upcoming webinar how your team can fully understand the implications of SIEM, and should manage it according to these regulations. Learn our 5 “musts” also recommended by data protection experts. Thursday, 18th of June, 3.00 PM…

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05. 05. 2020 Gerhard Schenk Events

LIVE MEETING NETEYE and SIEM

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…

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24. 04. 2020 Nicola Degara Events, NetEye, Unified Monitoring, Webinar

NetEye 4: novità nel monitoraggio unificato per l’infrastruttura IT 🇮🇹

La 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…

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15. 04. 2020 Patrick Zambelli Artificial Intelligence

Real-time Observability Thanks to AI

With 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…

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02. 04. 2020 Damiano Chini NetEye

Tornado Communication over NATS

Until 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…

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