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NetEye auf der CeBIT: Die CeBIT 2013 – Ein herzliches Dankeschön an alle Besucher
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Check the freshness of passive checks
In case of passive checks as for example SNMP traps or notifications via email from external checking systems, it is not always possible to know if these controls are correctly performed. This is the reason that made us decide to look for a solution able to ensure that the passive checks are being regularly provided by…
Read MoreJoin us at this year’s CeBIT
We will participate in this year’s CeBIT by introducing all new NetEye features at our stand located in Hall 6, Block F16, Stand 133. What you might expect: Practical examples of the integration of successful projects like the network traffic monitoring with ntop, the network discovery with NeDi or all the latest features on Asset…
Read MoreNSClient++ 0.4.1 released!
NSClient++ has for many years been the de facto way to monitor Windows machines from Nagios derived monitoring solutions such as Neteye, which over the past years has integrated various additional functionalities in its offer. With the new version (0.4.1) we are now moving steadily from “just a windows agent” to become versatile tool to…
Read MoreNew PNP templates to view max values in the graphs
I have implemented new PNP templates for NetEye to display in the graphs not only the average information but also the maximum values. As displayed in the two examples below, the network traffic graph shows in green color the inbound (Light green) and outbound traffic (dark green), that are calculated as average values. The newly…
Read MoreNetEye adopted by the main European University
After the University of Bologna, Udine and Trento also the largest Italian business school La Sapienza in Rome has installed NetEye. Key decision factors according to the IT department of La Sapienza were the easy integration of the solution into the existing infrastructure and its Open Source business model, providing more openness in adapting the solution…
Read MoreCheckPoint Firewall Hardware Monitoring
In addition to the check_snmp_cpfw.pl where you can keep control of active connections, the Secure Virtual Network or the HA status I wanted to keep track of the basic hardware conditions of CP devices. For this I’ve extended the check_snmp_environment.pl ( check_snmp_environment.pl.tar ) adding in addition to other platforms also the SNMP support for CheckPoint firewalls….
Read MoreNotifications on critical business elements
The 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 MoreHow to monitor IBM storage
A customer has recently required to monitor their IBM Storewize V7000. The control of the SAN IBM was crucial for the company as these systems were in failover with critical data replication. It was frequently happening that the replication process was interrupted and till now no solutions were implemented to send prompt notifications in case…
Read MoreThe reasons of the Open Source large adoption – Interview with Jeffrey Hammond – Principal Analyst at Forrester Research
“We’ve seen that Open Source has been used more and more by organizations. IT monitoring tools in particular are strongly adopted in Europe ” commented Jeffrey Hammond, Principal Analyst at Forrester Research, in his interview. If you’re interested in knowing more about Open Source and the reasons of its large adoption in the past years,…
Read MoreUPS Monitoring: Include of the APC MIBs
An update of the previous script for monitoring the UPS health status includes now also the APC MIB base. ( Blog article ) The monitoring features for APC include now the monitoring of the Battery capacity %, Temperature and voltage. A comparison against the settable limits in terms of input lines ( availability ) and…
Read MoreIntegration of SAP solution manager – CCMS
The monitoring of SAP environments requires the application of a specific strategy to access and verify key monitoring variables. SAP provides for this purpose a dedicated data interface – the CCMS interface. This is an open data-exchange interface allowing to communicate through an external source with the SAP-environment. For NetEye we have adapted the opensource…
Read MoreIntegration of SAP Solution Manager
SAP Solution Manager monitors the behavior of SAP Instances and sends notification email in case of misbehaviors. Integrating this solution with NetEye the benefit is the possibility to have the mails sent to a user on NetEye Server and thanks to a procmail script rows are inserted into the MessageConsole Application. The script could be like this: #! /bin/sh # export…
Read MoreAutomatic Nagios Downtime schedulation script
This blog article presents a little tool that might be useful to automatize tasks around Nagios. In every day’s IT administrator tasks the reboot and downtime for servers and services maintenance is not avoidable. One of the administration tasks in NetEye is also the schedulation of such downtimes in order to avoid predictable alert notifications…
Read MoreMonitor LDAP attributes with Nagios
We extended the basic LDAP check contained in the standard plugins to monitor specific attributes of a given LDAP search. This allows to actively monitor the LDAP database consistency, tracking unwanted changes. Download: check_ldap_search
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