Hackthealps – The winning team!
“An instructive, sleepless, funny and challenging weekend…” ;
Malte and Andreas, winner of the Würth Phoenix challenge were glad to participate at the Hackthealps competition.
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How to Integrate an External jQuery Plugin in Icinga Web 2
As 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 MoreHow to Add/Rename an Icinga2 Satellite
Infrastructures get reorganized, organizations grow and naming conventions change. Icinga2 nodes can reliably trust each other by following the guidelines for certificate generation and building a dedicated certificate chain. Certificates rely on hostnames and DNS, which aren’t usually subject to changes, but it does happen sometimes. What then? First of all, all certificates in NetEye’s…
Read MoreNetEye 4 Log Management: Rsyslog and the Elastic Stack
When 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 MoreMicrosoft Remote Desktop Services Performance – Part 2
Remote 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 MoreBe Like Bill. Talk To Your EriZone Consultant.
It’s 16:00 on the first Friday in April Jeff is sitting in his office chair, and responds at the first ring of his CISCO VoIP phone. Bob’s screams come out of the receiver and Jeff instinctively pulls it away from his ear. Bob isn’t satisfied that the tickets opened by his group are always resolved…
Read MoreHackthealps… Great Challenge, Well-Deserved Winners
The hackathon with the most panoramic view this week took place on the “Plan de Corones” in South Tyrol. The over-2000-meter a.s.l. event venue in the Puster Valley offered exciting development challenges, a breathtaking view within the heart of the Dolomites, and many chances to express creativity even beyond lines of code. Würth Phoenix contributed…
Read MoreUpdated modules icingaweb2, icingaweb2-module-nagvis and nagvis
Updated icingaweb2-module-nagvis to 1.1.1_neteye1.2.5-1 and nagvis to 1.9.8_neteye1.3.2-1 for NetEye 4.2: – Fixed: Deleting a map in Maps did not completely remove it Updated icingaweb2 to 2.5.1_neteye1.13.6-1 for NetEye 4.2: – Fixed: Updated the documentation on how to set the right timezone (for system and PHP)
Read MoreUpdated modules icingaweb2, icingaweb2-module-nagvis and nagvis
Updated icingaweb2-module-nagvis to 1.1.1_neteye1.2.4-1 and nagvis to 1.9.8_neteye1.3.1-1 for NetEye 4.2: – Fixed: Cannot open a NagVis map after it has been renamed Updated icingaweb2 to 2.5.1_neteye1.13.5-1 for NetEye 4.2: – Fixed: Updated the documentation on secure connections with HTTPS
Read MoreHackTheAlps Challenge with Würth Phoenix
We are proud to participate as HackTheAlps PlatinSponsor and really curious about what you are going to do to our data! Visual Synthetic Monitoring with Alyvix – User Experience – Enjoy Your Holiday! Most people hate being away from the Internet even when they are on holiday. Many of them might choose a location where…
Read Morentop Isn´t a Teenager Anymore
It all started with a pretty simple purpose: “The initial idea behind ntop was to create a simple tool to enable network visibility without having to deal with complicated network protocols,“ says ntop founder Luca Deri. What followed were 20 years of the highest quality development, motivation and passion, bringing ntop to what it is…
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Artificial Intelligence as Opportunity and Challenge
The Cloud, Big Data and IoT are changing the way businesses operate: value can only be created by making effective use of data. This demand to deepen knowledge has increased the number of big data tools, new sharing platforms and smart objects. But how do these new technologies affect traditional methods of IT management? What…
Read MoreTelegraf Plugin for VMware Counters from a Windows Guest OS
Telegraf is a plugin-driven agent for collecting metrics from various sources (based on the configured input plugins), preprocessing and aggregating them (based on configured processor and aggregator plugins), and forwarding them to the desired destinations (depending on the configured output plugins). Telegraf is used throughout NetEye to collect performance data, forward them to InfluxDB where…
Read MoreIT Service Status Aggregation for Distributed Monitoring Scenarios
With this article I will talk about a recent customer project on End User Experience within a distributed environment. When we use the word “distributed”, we usually think about sites distributed across multiple cities or continents. This project focused on monitoring the quality that IT users experience between the ground floor and the 2nd floor…
Read MoreMicrosoft Remote Desktop Services: Customization and Performance
A 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…
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