This 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 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 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…
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 MoreNetEye installation topology can fluctuate over time, with hosts of various types that can be, for example, added or removed from a cluster in response to changes in business demand or customer requirements. In a cluster environment, hosts are manually mapped in a file called /etc/neteye-cluster, a sort of static inventory solution that is the…
Read MoreAs an Atlassian partner we are working in this period on the preparation of an online demo system in parallel with the delivery of our new NetEye demo online service. For the occasion I decided to expand our already existing NetEye integration with the Atlassian ecosystem that you will find described in other previous blogs….
Read MoreUpgrading a NetEye 4 installation, either as a cluster or a single instance, is not always a painless activity. NetEye 4 is, in fact, a very sophisticated product that offers its customers a very large number of features, and operates in complex and business-critical environments. From version to version, the upgrade procedure may change: as…
Read MoreIn the previous blog post in our #devops series, we discussed how to automatically provision a NetEye cluster with virtually zero hassle. Thanks to Ansible, in fact, we dramatically reduced the amount of manual effort needed to generate a fully working cluster. This, in turn, opened up an opportunity to boost our cluster testing infrastructure…
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 MoreIn this post we’re going to learn how to create an SLM report for a Business Process. Let’s get started. The concept here is to create a host that contains the checks for the Business Process we want to generate the report for, and then create the report for that host. Prerequisites: NetEye 4.7 or…
Read MoreDeploying a NetEye Cluster If you regularly follow this blog, you know that we automatically generate and test a NetEye ISO every night. Starting from the ISO, we can also automatically provision a NetEye virtual machine in a VMware vSphere infrastructure. One might wonder, “What if, since I already have these two ingredients available, I…
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