SOAP is a messaging protocol for exchanging information based on XML over the network. SOAP messages are written in XML, which is why they are platform- and language-independent. A lot of enterprises have such webservices that return useful data for use in (web) applications. Now, if you want your application to work, then these webservices…
Read MoreA frequent request I get is how to view the availability of hosts and/or services within a Grafana dashboard. Here I demonstrate how to do this for host availability. To implement this, we first create a new table in our MariaDB on NetEye. I’ll call this table host_daily_sla and put it in the pre-existing reporting…
Read MoreTo be able to make Elasticsearch Snapshots you need shared storage mounted on all Elasticsearch Data Nodes. There are various possible file systems you can use for this: GFS, NFS, CIFS and GlusterFS. What is GlusterFS GlusterFS is a scalable network file system suitable for data-intensive tasks such as cloud storage and media streaming. GlusterFS…
Read MoreSo you have a Microsoft Exchange mail server infrastructure and want full control over it using the NetEye 4 Log Management module? Yes, you can do that. An Exchange server writes out various log files: MessageTracking Imap4/Pop3 Smtp IIS logs To be able to send these logs to NetEye you have to install the Filebeat…
Read MoreWhat is Sahi Pro? Sahi Pro is a suite of mature, business-ready tools for the automated testing of Web, Web services, Mobile, Windows Desktop, SAP GUI and Java applications. For testing teams who need rapid and reliable automation, Sahi Pro would be the best choice among automation tools. Integration with NetEye 4 For those who…
Read MoreIn NetEye 4.11 the neteye upgrade command was introduced and has to be used when updating to the next release. Now, everything is all well and good if you have direct access to the Internet from your NetEye 4 server, but if you have to use a proxy to update your servers then the procedure…
Read MoreWhat is DRBD? DRBD is a distributed replicated storage system for the Linux platform. It is implemented as a kernel driver, several user-space management applications, and some shell scripts. DRBD is traditionally used in high availability (HA) computer clusters, but beginning with DRBD version 9, it can also be used to create larger software defined storage pools with…
Read MoreLast week I had to implement monitoring checks for a customer’s host running an IBM iSeries server. As the monitoring for that is a bit particular, I’d like to share what I did, and also share with you an Icinga2 Basket containing the monitoring structure. Where to Find the Necessary Files You may download the…
Read MoreThe Problem If you’re trying to monitor a Microsoft Cluster, you’ll surely want to monitor the disk space of a single cluster service. In this case there’s a problem with Icinga2 Agent: you can’t use it with more than one IP address. So you can’t simultaneously monitor the resources of the “physical” host and a…
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 MoreIn every Enterprise, that extra step you need to master for monitoring is always a bit problematic. Normally, the people doing monitoring or who are responsible for the monitoring infrastructure are different from those doing daily administrative work on the server infrastructure. Most of the time, new servers are up and running much sooner than…
Read MoreDo you have a NetEye server, and want to monitor your VMware ESXi Infrastructure? Nothing easier than that using the InfluxDB and Grafana Modules of NetEye, along with a Telegraf agent to deliver the data into Influx. Starting with version 1.6.x of Telegraf, there’s a plugin for querying for data from a vSphere server, but…
Read MoreSo you have MSSQL databases and you’d like to keep an eye on the performance of your DB. Using NetEye this is quite easy. The tools you need are already available on your NetEye server: InfluxDB, the Telegraf agent, and Grafana for visualizing your Dashboards. The SQL Server Input Plugin provides metrics for your SQL…
Read MoreIf you have an Exchange Server and want to check its status, Exchange has a PowerShell API just for this. Check out this zip file exchange-serverhealth, which includes a powershell script to put on your Exchange Server and a “Monarch” Service Profile that you can import into your NetEye Monarch Monitoring Configuration Application. On your…
Read MoreDo you have Citrix or Windows RDP servers, and your users keep calling you because of problems? The first problem is to see which server the user was connected to. I solved this problem by monitoring the user connections on Windows Terminal Servers (including Citrix Servers), so that you know how many users are connected…
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