In this post, and in the one that will follow in the next weeks, I would like to analyze the role of IT Asset Management in adapting to the new General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR). In this first article I will briefly introduce what the GDPR is, what measures it introduces, and how the IT…
Read MoreArtificial Intelligence (AI) refers to hardware or software that exhibits behavior which appears intelligent. Machine Learning is a field of computer science that gives computers the ability to learn without being explicitly programmed. Deep Learning is part of a broader family of machine learning methods based on learning data representations, as opposed to task-specific algorithms….
Read MoreIf you need to monitor a Dell EMC Storage XtremIO unit, then I have the right solution for you. Not long ago, I wrote an XtremIO storage tracking plug-in that can execute the following activities: XTREMIO_CTRL_Status: monitors the controllers and the hardware status XTREMIO_DPG_Status: controls the DPG groups from the storage array XTREMIO_Storage_Efficiency: verifies and…
Read MoreNetwork traffic monitoring is traditionally based on SNMP queries. This protocol generates statistics on the transmission of data across one or more network interfaces. While network device queries still run through SNMP, using Microsoft Hyper-V monitoring requires the adoption of other approaches. One of the reasons is the network connection configuration itself: for example, many…
Read MoreNetEye & EriZone User Group Sfide e opportunità per l’IT Management 4.0 Connectbay, Mantova, Giovedì 19 ottobre 11:00 – 17:00 Vi aspettiamo il 19 ottobre al NetEye & EriZone User Group. L’evento offrirà un’occasione unica a tutti i nostri clienti per scoprire le ultime novità nell’IT System & Service Management, individuare i requisiti necessari per adeguarsi al…
Read MoreIT security is one of the highest priorities for every CIO. Cyber-attacks are now a reality that we must deal with on a daily basis. More and more organizations have been the victims of so-called cybercrimes that are the cause of financial losses, operational problems and consequences to the company’s reputation. That is why trying…
Read MoreBe our guest on the it-sa Between the 10th and 12th of October, we welcome you at Europe’s largest IT security fair trade, the it-sa in Nuremberg-Germany. By visiting our stand located in Hall 10.1 – 520, you will get the latest insights on all new functionalities related to NetEye, EriZone and ntop – especially in…
Read MoreIf you are using our Asset Management module integrated into NetEye, you probably already know about the potential of OCS Inventory and GLPI. However, often users are not aware of all the functionalities available in Life Cycle Asset Management. So let’s highlight some of the most important features to manage the entire life cycle of…
Read MoreMachine learning and anomaly detection are being mentioned with increasing frequency in performance monitoring. But what are they and why is interest in them rising so quickly? From Statistics to Machine Learning There have been several attempts to explicitly differentiate between machine learning and statistics. It is not so easy to draw a line between…
Read MoreWhether you are responsible for your company’s Network Operations Center (NOC), or you are just generally interested in the topic of infrastructure monitoring, this article will be of interest to you. We built the Action Launchpad module for NetEye to simplify the execution of remote commands (proactive actions). When resolving some anomaly you find yourself…
Read MoreIcinga Web 2 is a powerful PHP framework for web applications in a clean, minimal design. It’s fast, responsive, accessible and easily extensible with modules. It can be installed quickly and easily from packages found in the official package repositories (see the resource links at the bottom of this blog post). Besides the global configuration…
Read MoreDoing my work as monitoring consultant, I often have to monitor Nutanix systems on customer site. Nutanix is a integrated systems vendor that produces a hyper-converged storage system called “Virtual Computing Platform”. It is quiet easy to monitor the Nutanix system and with NetEye you will be able to get the best results and visualization possibilities….
Read MoreNetwork traffic keeps becoming more and more heterogeneous. In many cases, it is not enough to monitor a system as we have done in the past. Here I will present the key ingredients according to Würth Phoenix for successful state of the art performance monitoring and proactive analysis of those applications that are critical for…
Read MoreIntroduction The NetEye APIs offer a simple way to automate and script common processes on NetEye. They expose more than 150 objects written in Perl, which can be easily used and extended. The NetEye APIs allow you to perform several actions: add/modify/remove a host, service or business process from Nagios, as well as compute the availability of…
Read MoreThe Smith-Family is driving on the highway to arrive to their holiday destination in Italy, as a car in front of them suddenly brakes. A truck accidently has lost demolition debris and thereby almost caused a multiple-vehicle collision. Mrs. Jones is driving the car just behind the truck and as her car brakes, it simultaneously…
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