Monitoring systems acquire information from various devices in different ways: API, SNMP, syslog, etc. One of the most important methods in Icinga-based systems like NetEye is the Icinga Agent. This agent is installed on each server and collects and sends information to the master NetEye node using secure protocols. When we work within a small…
Read MoreIf you have a NetEye with SIEM Module activated or own an Elasticsearch installation then you have surely activated the Elasticsearch Snapshots to make backups of all your indexes (or at least the important ones). However you have to take a regular look at your Snapshots Reports to check that everything is working correctly. I…
Read MoreToday I’d like to tell you about the possibility of alerting when anomalies in network traffic are encountered. I use ntopng to generate, evaluate and forward these alerts. If you don’t know about ntopng, let me briefly describe for you what it does. According to its creator, ntopng is a High-Speed Web-based Traffic Analysis and…
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 MoreA very important, fast-evolving area during the latest NetEye releases has been multi-tenancy. In a system with many tenants, the most complex aspect is probably the proper and orderly management of user permissions. To help administrators in this task, we have introduced the concept of tenant role in NetEye 4.29. The tenant role is a…
Read MoreWelcome to version 4.29 of our NetEye v4 Unified Monitoring Solution. With this release, NetEye welcomes us with a spectacular sunset view and a beautiful flower, symbol of the Dolomites. The Edelweiss, or “Stella Alpina”, is a protected flower that grows in high altitudes among the bare and rugged rocks of our mountains. Its gentleness…
Read MoreThe ongoing evolution of the world of work also carries through to the areas where this work is carried out. Never before have so many people and companies finally understood that smart working is a reality, and that the productivity of employees who work partly at home rather than the office does not decrease but…
Read MoreNagVis is a visualization add-on for NetEye, and can be used to show NetEye monitoring data, over for example, a Network Schema as the use case below will show you. Thanks to NagVis, you can import a previously created network schema into NetEye, and overlay network objects that have previously been monitored by NetEye. Let’s…
Read MoreNetEye provides its users with the GeoMap module, and recently a customer asked me to prepare a useful GeoMap configuration for him, so he could geographically locate the backbone devices in his network. The NetEye Geo Map module allows you to overlay the position and status of hosts on top of a customizable map, based…
Read MoreEver since version 5.4 of nBoxes with the Enterprise L license it’s been possible to use a new feature called Behavior Analysis. Let’s see what it is and how to take advantage of it. This ntopng feature enables monitoring of periodic flows of network traffic, i.e., flows that frequently repeat, by highlighting the services it…
Read MoreA particular client who operates as an ISP for its customers and corporate departments requested the ability to summarize and display, in convenient graphs, a few metrics related to the bandwidth delivered on switch ports, where the available gateways provide connectivity. The first activity I undertook was to obtain the MIB files and OIDs from…
Read MoreAfter two years of a forced break caused by the pandemic, we were finally able to book a flight to Brussels and participate in the FOSDEM event again. For those who aren’t familiar with it, FOSDEM is a free event for software developers to meet, share ideas and collaborate. Apart from the amazing experience overall, we met…
Read MoreWelcome to version 4.28 of our NetEye v4 Unified Monitoring Solution. In this release, NetEye welcomes winter and the new year with the typical South Tyrolean Apple Strudel.There are myriad recipes for typical apple strudel and seemingly every family has its own delicious filling. Each cook adds his own special blend of sultanas, nuts, breadcrumbs,…
Read MoreAsset management/CMDB tools play (or should play!) a central role in IT operations and management, gathering data from hardware assets on contracts, software licenses, network configurations, tickets and many more. The key task is to keep all this data consistent and up to date. Rigor in manual data insertion and the careful integration of automation…
Read MoreAs you have surely read from the release notes of NetEye 4.27, we have integrated ClickHouse to be able to use the historical flows and alerts feature of ntopng. What is ClickHouse? Directly from the official website: ClickHouse is a column-oriented database management system (DBMS) for online analytical processing of queries (OLAP). ClickHouse’s performance exceeds…
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