Desired State Configuration (DSC) is a feature in Powershell 4.0 and above that helps administrators to automate the configuration of Windows. I’ll show you below how to use it in order to maintain a consistent Icinga agent configuration across your Windows servers. Our use case As an admin I would like to distribute and configure the…
Read MoreIPMI (the Intelligent Platform Management Interface) has been the de facto standard for managing and monitoring computer hardware for many years, but as Intel explicitly stated here no further updates to the IPMI specification are planned or should be expected. “No further updates to the IPMI specification are planned or should be expected. The IPMI…
Read MoreIn a previous article I analyzed how you can create effective visualizations in Kibana, and how to apply machine learning jobs with the goal of extracting as much information as possible from our data. However, you can also think of data as a raw material, which sometimes needs to be transformed and manipulated before allowing…
Read MoreITOA ITOA is the NetEye component which represents time series data using the Grafana graphics engine. Data is usually collected by Telegraf agents and stored into an InfluxDB specialized non-relational database. Flux In order to manipulate the time series data, Grafana usually adopted a relational language: InfluxQL. The relational approach has had a number of…
Read MoreThe Cyber Apocalypse CTF is back with the 2022 edition. It’s a Jeopardy-style competition organized by Hack The Box and is open to everyone. Together as a security-focused guild (a concept taken from the Spotify model) we here at Würth Phoenix participated in this challenge and in particular I focused on the web challenges. After…
Read MoreThe correct configuration and scheduling of downtime is an essential element of a monitoring system for several reasons: Mitigating notifications Providing IT operations and Service Desk teams with timely information about when monitored systems may be subject to faults due to maintenance Managing patching, reboot and maintenance procedures that are now typical of all IT…
Read MoreThese days we live in a data-driven world, where the collection and analysis of data empowers not only companies but also individuals to plan future actions based on the information that is extracted. NetEye enables both the collection and analysis of an enormous amount of data using various platforms, such as Kibana, for data written…
Read MoreWe fixed a bug for which the healthcheck 00400_local_neteye_target_services_are_disabled was failing on NetEye Satellites due to some services enabled by default on the NetEye Satellites. The healthcheck now does not control the state of such services on Satellites. For NetEye 4.22 we updated the following packages: neteye-setup to version 1.83.4-1
Read MoreWe fixed a bug for which the healthcheck 01220_telegraf_retention_policy_set was failing on NetEye Satellites. The healthcheck is now skipped on Satellites. For NetEye 4.22 we updated the following packages: icingaweb2-module-analytics, icingaweb2-module-analytics-autosetup to version 1.48.3-1
Read MoreOn January 29th, I attended my first CTF (capture the flag) competition: the Insomni’hack teaser.Based on my skills, I decided to go for the challenge called Vault which consists of a web-based vault of five pages: a home page, one where you can see the key/value pair you entered after logging in, a page for…
Read MoreWe added a default Retention Policy for the Telegraf databases. The default Retention Policy can be enabled and configured in the Icingaweb2 Modules Settings under: Configuration > Modules > analytics > Configuration. For NetEye 4.22 we updated the following packages: icingaweb2-module-analytics, icingaweb2-module-analytics-autosetup to version 1.48.2-1
Read MoreWe fixed a wrong behaviour which causes neteye satellite config create to do not work when executed with –tenant parameter. For NetEye 4.22 we updated the following packages: elasticsearch, elasticsearch-autosetup, elasticsearch-neteye-config, filebeat, filebeat-autosetup, filebeat-neteye-config, apm-server, apm-server-autosetup, apm-server-neteye-config, kibana, kibana-autosetup, kibana-neteye-config, logstash, logstash-autosetup, logstash-neteye-config to version 7.15.0_neteye3.37.2-1
Read MoreDuring my experience as a Würth Phoenix consultant, I’ve seen a pretty long list of broken Icinga 2 configurations. Several times, customers have begun a scheduled meeting with something like “Hey mister consultant, ever since the last deploy some objects have stopped being monitored, but I don’t see any errors!”. After some troubleshooting, everything always…
Read MoreWith NetEye 4.22 we released a feature awaited for years: the ability to reach the Elasticsearch API externally, thanks to our NGINX proxy under NetEye. This new feature brings with it a lot of use cases, but what was turning over and over in my head was the automatic process for verification of the blockchains…
Read MoreSometimes you’d just really like to have an overview of what happens to the Events that flow through Tornado. Where do they come from? Did they get stuck somewhere in the Collectors or in Tornado? Which Tornado Actions did they trigger? Gathering all this information from hundreds of log lines across different services (i.e., Tornado…
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