Today I want to present an Icinga 2-based monitoring use case where concepts of the powerful Icinga 2 DSL functional language come into play. The use case is based on mapping the status of a Host/Service Object via passive check results only. For this kind of use case, any accidental active status check could potentially…
Read MoreThe new complex event processing engine Tornado has been evolving quite quickly during the last few NetEye releases. As you might imagine after reading the latest Neteye 4.15 release notes, Tornado Editor is becoming very powerful and users will find a comfortable UI for configuring Tornado filters and rules. For me, interacting with Tornado had…
Read MoreWhen implementing monitoring with Icinga2 you will soon reach the point where you will have to install Agents in order to monitor your infrastructure in-depth. Here the Icinga2 Agent provides concepts to access information about and the properties of an operating system over a secure remote connection. In an enterprise environment consisting of thousands of…
Read MoreA common scenario during the setup of a monitoring environment represents the import of Host and Service definitions from external databases or existing monitoring systems. This task can become quite complex when there are multiple external sources, and the data needs to be correlated. This was the challenge we faced during a recent project where…
Read MoreWith the rapidly advancing digitalization of the economy, the availability of IT is becoming business-critical. Unplanned downtime is no longer acceptable, 24/7 operation is indispensable. For administrators, this means that they have to identify incidents before they lead to damaging behaviors in business processes. AIOps promises support in this direction. The digital transformation or our…
Read MoreAlmost 2 years ago, we first announced the start of our new NetEye 4 product. With NetEye 4 we started to build our monitoring solution on top of the popular Icinga2 and Icingaweb2 framework. Having been in the position of implementing some of the first projects based on NetEye 4, I recognized the need for…
Read MoreDuring the course of a NetEye installation, a wide range of performance data is collected. From latency metrics of ping checks, to the saturation data of disks and memory units, to the collection of utilization metrics of various kinds. For all of this data we’ve adopted the open source time series database InfluxDB. The time-aligned…
Read MoreIntegration of NagVis monitoring maps into the monitoring details view of NetEye 3 with Thruk
Read MoreIn today’s critical IT environments, setting up a cluster represents a common approach to increasing the availability of services and applications. The concept of clustering is a set of independent computers that work together, where if one node fails another node automatically begins to provide services through a process known as failover. To make sure…
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 my previous blog I introduced the concepts of agentless monitoring via WMI for Microsoft environments: from the preparation of suitable authentication credentials to providing some simple monitoring examples. In this blog I would like to add more details about specific checks, and the possibilities for troubleshooting if you have difficulty fetching the desired data….
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 MoreWelcome to the latest version of our Service Management solution EriZone version 5.3. Product: EriZone Release Number: 5.3 Release Date: December 31, 2017 Release Type: Minor Previous Release: 5.2 These release notes for EriZone 5.3 describe new features and improvements and provide information on how to upgrade. Enhancements Quick ticket creation by image toolbar Customers…
Read MoreWelcome to the latest version of our NetEye Unified Monitoring Solution that introduces new Business Priority management, and improvements to asset management, NetEye API, Grafana and GLPI contact integration. Product: NetEye Release Number: 3.12 Release Date: December 31, 2017 Release Type: Minor Previous Release: 3.11 System Requirements: NetEye 3.6 installation or higher These release notes for NetEye 3.12 describe new…
Read MoreWe are proud to announce the release of new minor versions of our IT System & Service Management solutions NetEye and EriZone. The latest version of our NetEye Unified Monitoring Solution introduces new Business Priority management, and improvements to asset management, NetEye API, Grafana and GLPI contact integration. On the other hand, EriZone 5.3 includes…
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