Preamble:A use case from one of our clients required scanning several subnets to locate all the printers to be imported into GLPI. Their infrastructure features a cloud-based Neteye Master and a Satellite within their farm. The connection between the master and the satellite is unidirectional—from the Satellite to the Master. With this type of setup,…
Read MoreIn some test or development environments, there may be a need to simulate the presence of GSM modems without having physical devices. This can be useful, for example, to test monitoring checks, SMS management systems, or to create new notification rules. In this post, I will show you how I created a serial modem emulation…
Read MoreOur older customers surely know that, in its earliest releases, NetEye 4 had no support for multitenancy. From a data perspective, there’s just one big bin we throw everything into to be used later. Then, a debate about multitenancy began. Here at Würth Phoenix we’ve discussed at length about the best way to segregate data…
Read MoreA customer recently asked me to monitor printer logs. His use case was to check which users were doing the printing, and what they were printing on the company’s printers, including their page numbers. The printers in question had SNMP available, but didn’t provide this particular information. In addition, the printers didn’t have an API…
Read MoreWelcome to version 4.40 of our NetEye v4 Unified Monitoring Platform. For this release, we’re taking you on a calming walk around Lake Dobbiaco, through a calm snowy winter landscape. The area is covered under a small layer of snow and the cloud-covered sky illuminates the scene softly. Just don’t forget to pack warm winter…
Read MoreNetApp® ONTAP® 9.6 and later versions include support for an expansive RESTful web services API. In comparison to an ONTAPI® application, the REST API offers a vastly simplified and workflow-driven user experience, allowing you to perform multiple operations on the storage objects with a single API. REST is the industry standard for API development, and…
Read MoreAs the digital arena evolves at lightning speed, so do the tactics of those seeking to breach it. Traditional security measures are no longer enough for today’s increasingly sophisticated cyber threats. The perimeter of technological infrastructure is no longer carved in stone – it shifts continuously, reflecting systems that are more distributed and challenging to…
Read MoreThis is that Time of the Year when you begin preparing all your SLA Reports to help you understand how your important services behaved during the year itself. It’s like the end of a horse race, when the bets are settled and you realize whether the bets you placed were right or not. And since…
Read MoreGLPI agents have various additional functionalities, from network discovery to remote inventory and ESX inventory. These can be controlled either directly from the command line (see my colleague’s blog https://www.neteye-blog.com/2024/07/glpi-device-discovery/ for some practical examples) or in a centralized way from the server, via the GLPI Inventory plugin (https://www.neteye-blog.com/2024/12/gui-based-glpi-network-inventory-setup-with-the-glpi-inventory-plugin/). There’s also another handy way to configure…
Read MoreNagVis, which in NetEye 4 is called the “Maps” Application, is a visualization add-on for the well-known network management system Nagios® and Icinga. NagVis can visualize monitoring status data as objects overlaid on maps to display them in different layouts: So in general, NagVis (Maps) is a presentation tool for information gathered in NetEye by…
Read MoreThis article describes an ad-hoc monitoring solution for MSSQL within a synchronized high-availability setup. Due to the circumstances surrounding the request from a customers’ request, with this setup we couldn’t use the standard command/check that’ are’s commonly used, but an additional layer was required to manage the resources involved. Use Case The behavior of MSSQL…
Read MoreGLPI agents not only perform a local inventory of the computer where they were installed, but also include several tools for discovering and inventorying other devices in their network: Of course, you’ll need to install and execute these tasks on only a few selected servers that reach the network sections you want. My colleague presented…
Read MoreIn today’s episode of “Fantastic Checks and Where to Find Them”, I’ll share how I managed to correlate two or more services on a single host, or even across different hosts. This story begins with a recent customer request. Initially, I considered using the Business Process module that’s already integrated in NetEye. However, after analyzing…
Read MoreWelcome to version 4.39 of our NetEye v4 Unified Monitoring Platform. This stunning drone panoramic photo captures the frozen beauty of Lake Carezza, nestled in Northern Italy’s winter landscape. The snowcapped mountain pass frames the serene lake, while the dense green pine forest adds depth to the scene. Cars winding along the road hint at…
Read MoreToday I’d like to share a peculiar request I received during one of my recent Consulting Sessions. It’s just a highly specific Business Case, but it led me to wonder: what if I could find a way to generalize it? For now, that’s just a fantasy, but let me tell you the whole story so…
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