So you have MSSQL databases and you’d like to keep an eye on the performance of your DB. Using NetEye this is quite easy. The tools you need are already available on your NetEye server: InfluxDB, the Telegraf agent, and Grafana for visualizing your Dashboards. The SQL Server Input Plugin provides metrics for your SQL…
Read MoreRemote Desktop Services 2016: The AppContainer Windows Server 2016 introduced the “AppContainer”, which is created when users connect to the server for the first time. Due to a registry leak, the Windows Server generates registry bloat for firewall rules. This registry bloat can be found in the following registry keys: HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\SharedAccess\Parameters\FirewallPolicy\FirewallRules HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\SharedAccess\Parameters\FirewallPolicy\RestrictedServices\Configurable\System Over time, this…
Read MoreHistorically, NetEye Clusters were configured with DRBD as Master/Slave resources. This led to the following rather cumbersome resource configuration for an N-node cluster: $SERVICE_drbd_master ( x 1 ) $SERVICE_drbd_master_clone ( x N ) $SERVICE_drbd_fs $SERVICE_virt_ip $SERVICE Note: $SERVICE serves as a placeholder for any Cluster Service running in NetEye 4. At least ten constraints were…
Read MoreEnterprise service management deals not only with IT processes, but also with interrelated end-to-end business processes. Its main goal is to put into motion policies crafted by senior management in accordance with a specific governance framework in order to bring value and cost savings across the enterprise. It is important to note that these policies…
Read MoreNetEye 4.3 Release Notes Welcome to the 4.3 version of our NetEye v4 Unified Monitoring Solution. Following version 4.2, the new and updated features in this version focus on security for the Log Manager based on Elastic Stack and for clustered environments, and simplifying the upgrade procedure. Product: NetEye Release Number: 4.3 Release Date: October…
Read MoreIn my last user guide blog I showed you how to create your own menu item, create a space on the file system, write a sample page, and store an image for that page, all in a way that will survive future updates. This time I want to show you how to use your custom…
Read MoreOCS Inventory is part of our Asset Management module integrated into NetEye. Open Computer and Software Inventory Next Generation (OCS Inventory NG) is free software that enables users to inventory IT assets. OCS-NG collects information about the hardware and software of networked machines from the machines themselves running the OCS client program (“OCS Inventory Agent”)….
Read MoreWith this blog I want to show you how to use Grafana 5 and Telegraf to give NetEye 3’s Tactical Monitoring Overview a great new look. The current Tactical Monitoring Overview is based on the Thruk frontend, and provides a lot of information about the current monitoring status. This includes the status of hosts, services,…
Read MoreAs already mentioned in my other blog posts, NetEye 4 is based on Icinga Web 2, a powerful PHP framework. During the development of some of our custom NetEye modules for Icinga Web 2, we needed to include some new, custom jQuery plugins to create a neat new effect in the GUI. For example, with…
Read MoreWhen you need to manage and collect large amounts of data, there can be a lot of hard tasks to do. So we decided to take some of the best Open Source tools to help us do it in the best possible way. Let me introduce you to Rsyslog and the Elastic Stack implementation for…
Read MoreRemote Desktop Services (RDS) Performance In a complex distributed RDS environment, it’s difficult to measure RDS performance: the end user typically notices responsiveness in a different way compared to measuring a single Windows Performance Counter! Overall performance tends to degrade over time: and frequent maintenance is required to keep an RDS Farm efficient. Of course,…
Read MoreA Little History The Microsoft Remote Desktop Services (RDS) architecture is widely used to publish centralized Desktop and Windows Applications to users from remote sites. With RDS, only the software user interfaces are transferred to the client system. All input from the client system is transmitted to the server, where software execution takes place. RDS…
Read MoreIn my last post, I showed you how to set up your own customized documentation in NetEye 3 so that it won’t be overwritten when you upgrade. Doing the same thing in NetEye 4 is also possible even though there isn’t a dedicated link for external documentation like in NetEye 3’s DokuWiki, and there isn’t…
Read MoreIn my previous blog I introduced the concepts of agentless monitoring via WMI for Microsoft environments: from the preparation of suitable authentication credentials to providing some simple monitoring examples. In this blog I would like to add more details about specific checks, and the possibilities for troubleshooting if you have difficulty fetching the desired data….
Read MoreGoogle has recently changed its API access policies; since June 11, 2018, the use of the API private key has been mandatory. In NetEye’s NagMap application, access to the Google Maps data has thus stopped, resulting in error alerts like this: In order to gain access to Google Maps data, you must obtain an API…
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