We wanted to test the new RedHat 8.9 beta releases, but RedHat doesn’t currently provide a beta container. How can we do it anyway? Please note that this procedure is not officially supported by RedHat. As a first step, we want to retrieve the package redhat-release from the rhel 8.9 beta ISO, in the directory…
Read MoreI was recently with a customer when he pointed out to me that his NetEye 4 system with its RedHat 8 operating system was sending an extremely large number of DNS queries to the DNS servers. After quickly analyzing the situation I found that RHEL does not cache DNS queries by default. Obviously the customer…
Read MoreAs you’ve probably read in a previous blog by my colleague Jürgen Vigna, we use GlusterFS for particular requirements in our NetEye 4 cluster environments. After we completed the migration from the operating system CentOS 7 to RedHat 8, a few small things have changed or been updated. For all those who are new to…
Read MoreAs you probably all know, a new NetEye version is released every two months. For this reason I’d like to emphasize that we recommend regular updating of your NetEye system. In particular with version 4.23 we released a major update of the operating system from CentOS 7 to RedHat 8. Since we’re doing a lot…
Read MoreIn NetEye 4.23 we shifted our base containers from CentOS to RedHat Enterprise Linux. Within our NetEye image and container we ship packages that come from RedHat Enterprise Linux’s private repositories and are thus subject to subscription, hence we need a way to be able to use our subscription when building NetEye containers. RedHat allows…
Read MoreSometimes you just need to temporarily grant access to a user to copy some files to your server. But no user should have access to the shell. For sftp this is quite simple (see below), but for scp it’s not that trivial. Also, you probably want to set the user up in a directory with…
Read MoreSIEM – Log Management JVM Configurations We fixed some bugs related to the Elastic JVM configurations, that was duplicating log files in the default directory. The JVM configurations are now up to date and the organization of configuration files has been improved. El Proxy We fixed a bug in El Proxy related to the retry…
Read MoreEl Proxy We fixed a bug in El Proxy related to the retry strategy for sending signed logs to Elasticsearch. Previously, after a document has been rejected from the Elasticsearch ingest pipeline, all non-signed logs were deleted during the retry phase including the mandatory “timestamp” field. Our solution now ensures that all mandatory fields remain…
Read MoreWelcome to version 4.36 of our NetEye v4 Unified Monitoring Solution. Merano/Meran is welcoming you with its promenades and palms, gardens and parklands, castles and palaces, noble villas, and unique urbanscape. Always fascinating, Merano is a historical spa town where hospitality and tourism reside in its soul. Merano is about taking a morning walk through…
Read MoreEvery so often it may happen (in particular after a cluster update or hardware issues) that you see your storage in a warning state on OpenShift. The first thing to do is to check what’s wrong with your cluster: sometimes you may have a real issue, in other cases it may just be a temporary…
Read MoreNetEye installations can be either in Standalone (Single Node) or in Cluster configuration, and for each one there’s the possibility to extend monitoring in segregated portions of the network or remote locations, or simply to be able to lighten the load of the master through the use of one or more satellites (the number of…
Read MoreSynopsis Important: GLPI security update Type/Severity Security Advisory: High Topic An update for the package glpi is now available for NetEye 4. NetEye Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of High. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores provide additional guidance about a vulnerability and give a detailed severity rating….
Read MoreOn February 3rd and 4th, 2024, we attended FOSDEM, a major event where thousands of free and open-source software developers from around the world gather to exchange ideas and collaborate. This year I dedicated much of the second day to the Testing and Continuous Delivery room. Continuous testing is essential for ensuring the safe and…
Read MoreAs you may know, NetEye Cloud is our multi-tenant SaaS solution for monitoring your infrastructure. It’s crucial to us for keeping every tenant aligned with the latest configurations and patches. We’ve managed to automate and align the agents via Desired State Configuration (DSC) and Ansible, but we still had to manually check those agents’ configurations….
Read MoreImportant: NagVis Security Update Type/Severity Security Advisory: Important Topic An update for the package nagvis is now available for NetEye 4. NetEye Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores provide additional guidance about a vulnerability and give a detailed severity rating. Description…
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