Automating the monitoring process in Enterprise environments is a challenge that led Icinga to create features such as their REST API and the Icinga Director module. In both new NetEye4 projects and those being migrated from NetEye3 to NetEye4, this challenge is one of the aspects that I highlight the most and is certainly one…
Read MoreProcess automation refers to the ability of a technological system to execute a series of tasks that were originally performed by humans. Such automation also controls, corrects and increases the visibility of the status of workflows and tasks, and generates reports throughout the process. The primary benefits of procedure automation are most surely productivity and…
Read MoreWith this article I will talk about a recent customer project on End User Experience within a distributed environment. When we use the word “distributed”, we usually think about sites distributed across multiple cities or continents. This project focused on monitoring the quality that IT users experience between the ground floor and the 2nd floor…
Read MoreIn recent weeks I had the opportunity to test the release candidate of the new NetEye BP API. This new API allows you to create and update NetEye Business Processes over the Perl API. Especially when used in large NetEye environments, it was often difficult to create a large number of business processes by hand…
Read MoreThe development of a software solution requires automated quality control to deliver a better customer experience. Our Unified Monitoring solution is based on a best-of-breed approach using tried-and-trusted open source tools. In our vision, the development processes should deliver integrated solutions through automated systems which manage not only the building and verification of the software…
Read MoreIntroduction When you need to monitor multiple machines, it’s a lot of work to install each machine manually. Instead, you want to run just a single command, or click a few buttons, to configure all those machines at once, and then keep them updated over time. This can be achieved with a bash script, so…
Read MoreJobScheduler is an Open Source solution for enterprise-level workload automation. It is used to launch executable files and shell scripts, and to run database procedures automatically. JobScheduler stores all information in a back-end database management system. As you may know, Würth Phoenix is an official partner of the German company SOS Berlin, the creator of…
Read MoreFor all those who could not attend the conference or are interested in reviewing the sessions – all presentations are available in video format at the Conferences pages. Enjoy!
Read MoreThe Business Services monitoring module of NetEye has been designed to obtain a higher abstraction level to define IT Services. It allows to configure the dependencies of the IT services with the infrastructure components. In this way it is also possible to simulate the business impact that for instance a server anomaly will have on…
Read MoreIn relazione con quanto scritto da Andrea di Lernia in precedenza, vorrei aggiungere dei particolari tecnici sul plugin Nagios Business Process. Come spiegato da Andrea, grazie a questo Add-on e’ possibile strutturare i host e servizi di Nagios in modo da riflettere la propria infrastruttura. Includendo nella struttura anche le dipendenze e’ possibile simulare l’effetto…
Read MoreSpesso come IT Manager ci chiediamo che cosa potrebbe succedere se una componente della nostra struttura informatica, sia essa un Hardware, un applicazione, un servizio o altro ancora) dovesse dare forfait; quale potrebbero essere le conseguenze di un malfunzionamento ? Che impatto avrebbe sul business aziendale ? Certo, immaginare l’ impatto che potrebbe avere l’ interruzione di…
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