Scenario GLPI is integrated into NetEye and provides powerful asset management solutions. Usually GLPI agents are deployed on servers and clients: this way an up-to-date asset inventory is kept within NetEye. The GLPI package also provides a tool able to perform network SNMP scans, detecting for example network printers, switches, and routers, as well as…
Read MoreScenario NetEye 4 is a comprehensive monitoring platform which natively supports Business Processes. A Business Process is an abstract view of a customer’s business from the Application point of view. Usually, it’s a collection of Icinga 2 checks aggregated by “AND, OR, At Least” logic in order to monitor whether a Business Application is really…
Read MoreScenario NetEye 4 is a comprehensive monitoring platform which natively supports Business Processes. A Business Process is an abstract view of a customer’s Business from the Application point of view. Usually, it’s a collection of Icinga2 checks aggregated by “AND, OR, At Least” logics in order to monitor if a Business Application is really available…
Read MoreScenario NetEye 4 is a comprehensive monitoring platform which natively supports Icinga 2 checks on remote hosts and devices. Several Icinga 2 checks support an historical view of the status. An example is the firewall interface performance status below, which displays a Performance Graph: Getting a better overview All the graph data generated by the…
Read MoreScenario Veritas Backup Exec is widely used for the backup of physical machines through local installed agents both on Windows and Linux hosts. It also supports application backup for Microsoft Exchange, SharePoint and several different Database engines, with the option of a granular application data restore. The product additionally supports virtual backup through Hyper-V and…
Read MoreScenario Veeam Backup & Replication product is widely used for backuping virtual machines, primary hosted on VMware vSphere infrastructure. It could also backup physical machines through dedicated agents. It’s very important to keep the backup status monitored: it would be nice to get the backup status through the Icinga2 agent in an easy way. PowerShell…
Read MoreScenario In this blog I’ll describe some advanced features of the DSC platform in order to automate the configuration of the monitoring agents. I’ve already described the basic topics in the first part of this blog: Installing and Configuring Monitoring Agents in a Windows Domain – Part 1 But just as a quick reminder, DSC…
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 MoreScenarioIn a Microsoft Remote Desktop environment, it’s a common need to force the logoff of a hanged user session. The NetEye Command Orchestrator (CMDO) can help us perform this task by executing remote commands through the Icinga2 agent API. There’s a security limitation built into the Command Orchestrator which allows only numeric parameters for executed…
Read MoreScenario It’s quite typical to have several managed Windows Servers joined to a Windows Active Directory Domain. But how do you handle the automated installation and configuration of the monitoring agents? How do you keep them up to date? DSC Framework: A Potential Native Solution DSC (Desired State Configuration) is a management platform in PowerShell…
Read MoreScenario JBoss Application Server (JBoss AS) is an open-source, cross-platform Java application server developed by JBoss, a division of Red Hat, Inc. JBoss AS is an open-source implementation of Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) that is used for implementing Java applications and other Web-based applications. Being a Java web-based application, it’s important to keep it…
Read MoreThe Remote Desktop Services Microsoft’s Remote Desktop Services are widely used by companies to let users use applications inside a server farm. Typically the reasons to use Remote Desktop are: Standardized environment and configuration Easy maintenance during application version upgrades Lower resource usage on the clients Better bandwidth usage in case of a slow connection…
Read MoreScenario Cisco WLC is widely used by many Enterprise Companies to manage their wireless networks due to its efficiency and advanced features. Its management web console has a wealth of configuration parameters, but it doesn’t offer a clear overview on what’s happening across the wireless network. Fortunately, a lot of real time information is available…
Read MoreScenario A lot of people who have a NetEye monitoring system will set up a Wall Dashboard to display the status of their most important services and vital performance data. If these Dashboards are built using Grafana (in the ITOA menu in NetEye 4), you will encounter the problem that you will need to bypass…
Read MoreScenario Unifi is a well-known wireless solution developed by Ubiquity Networks. It’s widely used due to its efficiency and low cost. Up until some years ago, the vendor offered just a basic set of access points managed by a software controller. Year after year, the number and types of wireless controllers grew to include many specialized types…
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