Machine 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…
Read MoreMicrosoft Exchange server is one of the most used email server for companies but sometimes it is hard to monitor because usually the monitoring tools only control the availability of the server on the network. Thanks to the 2013 update, Microsoft offered several URL (Healthcheck URL) to verify the real server availability for clients. The…
Read MoreDuring my last projects I noticed that the implementation of a „Security Operations Center“ (in short SOC) is becoming increasingly important, especially for our enterprise customers. Mainly for big companies that are of public interest like banks, energy providers, assurances etc. the topic of cyber threats is getting more actual and requires special attention. This…
Read MoreIn one of my last projects, I had to implement a job scheduler to the IT environment of one of our NetEye customers, whereby a central requirement was that it had to be possible to launch jobs directly from NetEye. The customer had chosen the job scheduler solution from SOS Berlin, which had to be…
Read MoreWe are proud to announce the release of new minor versions of our IT System & Service Management solutions NetEye and EriZone. Go to the official Release Notes of NetEye 3.10 (IT System Management solution) Go to the official Release Notes of EriZone 5.1 (IT Service Management solution)
Read MoreOn SAP systems there are mapped business processes, which are critical for the organization. Therefore, special monitoring requirements arise. Not just the infrastructure has to be monitored, but also application layers, job executions and failures. It is crucial to understand where problems accumulate, which over time could lead to serious incidents.
Read MoreOn the 23rd of this month, the NetEye and EriZone User Group in its German version took place on in the historic tramway depot “St. Peter” in Nuremberg. The event has been hosted by NetEye customer N-ERGIE Aktiengesellschaft. Participants had the opportunity to exchange information and experiences with other customers and got insights to the latest…
Read MoreVAG Museum St. Peter © Archiv Freunde der Nürnberg-Fürther Straßenbahn e.V. The future holds major challenges, which are going far beyond standard monitoring. Internet of Things, E2E Monitoring, SIEM, Network Discovery and Anomaly Detection are keywords that are gaining increasing importance in modern enterprises. Under consideration of these actual trends, we now defined the final…
Read MoreIcons by Dod Cosmin / CC BY 3.0 and Icons8 / CC BY-ND 3.0 In this article, I would like to underline two main advantages of our open source IT system management solution NetEye, which regard the sending of SMS monitoring notifications. High flexibility for the integration Possibility of sending notifications even in case the monitoring system itself…
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