Over the last few weeks I’ve had the opportunity to install my first NetEye 4 at a customer site, and now I’d like to report to you about my experience. NetEye 4 comes with the Icinga2 monitoring engine, and we are using Icinga Director for managing the monitoring configuration. Obviously we have started to integrate…
Read MoreIntroduction In this second part of the tutorial we will create a Grafana dashboard to visualize the performance data that we have collected in the first part of the tutorial that can be found here: How to monitor docker containers using cAdvisor [ Part 1 ] 1. Create a new Data Source The first thing…
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 MoreWouldn’t it be great to have quick access to your favorite pages in the NetEye documentation? To make customized thumbnail pages of your most frequent screenshots? To create your own alternative documentation index with categories reflecting your mindset? To add your own notes, comments, or FAQ with pointers into the existing NetEye documentation? That would…
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 MoreData collection is one of the key steps when you want to analyze the current state of your network, system or application in terms of performance. Data visualization is another: even the most sophisticated data collection cannot help you solve problems if it is visualized poorly. Nowadays a single visualization is often not enough since…
Read MoreConfiguring Microsoft Servers: Authentication and Permissions Settings In this blog I will provide you a how-to for configuring agentless monitoring for Microsoft Servers or Workstations via WMI. What is WMI? Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) is Microsoft’s implementation of an industry-standard approach to accessing management information in an enterprise environment. WMI uses the industry-standard Common Information…
Read MoreReady to take your IT process skills beyond the traditional? Our new training offerings will help you acquire, maintain and improve your knowledge and skills around our solutions. This year’s training program contains courses for NetEye, EriZone or Alyvix customers and partners, each lasting between 2 and 4 working days. The main focus will be…
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 MoreAfter deploying and configuring F5 network gear in your company, your next step will be to monitor these new devices. Depending on your monitoring solution, integrating your F5 network equipment can range from simple to complex. Maybe you need to search around for the various MIB files to get the optimal monitoring parameters, or perhaps…
Read MoreBoth EriZone and NetEye 4 are capable to work on Android or iOS mobile devices. As many of you already known, mobile browsers work differently from their desktop version and could happen that your application works flawlessly on desktop, but something is broken on mobile. What can you do in this case to understand the…
Read MoreAs we do every year, we participated again this year at FOSDEM, the largest conference on free and open source software in Europe. Apart from having really nice conversations and grabbing many stickers 🙂 , we attended many very inspiring talks this year, too.
Read MoreIn an earlier post we saw how to extend the NetEye Perl API (http://www.neteye-blog.com/2017/06/how-to-extend-or-modify-the-apis/). By popular request, today we will stay at a higher level and walk through some simple use cases: * Searching for Objects * Adding new Objects * Removing Objects
Read MoreIn the latest releases of our dashboarding solution, Grafana, support for new relational datasources is included. These new datasources give us the ability to build native dashboards with relational datasets. In this blog I’d like to walk you through building up a high level dashboard for monitoring events. The data we want to query is…
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