In a previous blog post I described how we installed our first OpenShift cluster and how we used HA Proxy as a load balancer. Our cluster is meant to host both internal services (like CI and docker registry) and public services, and we thus have to expose them on multiple domains with valid SSL certificates….
Read MoreWe fixed a problem related to the RHEL 8 repos enabling on the various system which, based on their role in the NetEye installation, will be associated to a specific subscription that covers only the set of repos required by the specific role. For NetEye 4.23 we updated the following packages: neteye-setup to version 1.85.7-1…
Read MoreWe fixed a problem related to the RHEL 8 repos enabling on the various system which, based on their role in the NetEye installation, will be associated to a specific subscription that covers only the set of repos required by the specific role. For NetEye 4.24 we updated the following packages: neteye-setup to version 1.86.4-1…
Read MoreWe fixed a problem related to the RHEL 8 repos enabling on the various system which, based on their role in the NetEye installation, will be associated to a specific subscription that covers only the set of repos required by the specific role. For NetEye 4.22 we updated the following packages: neteye-setup to version 1.83.5-1…
Read MoreIn a previous blogpost, we showed how to test an ISO using Packer, an open source software tool for creating machine images for multiple platforms. One of the issues we faced was due to a security requirement we have: that the ISO we ship must have its password already expired so that when NetEye is…
Read MoreIn NetEye 4.23 we shifted our base containers from CentOS to RedHat Enterprise Linux. Within our NetEye image and container we ship packages that come from RedHat Enterprise Linux’s private repositories and are thus subject to subscription, hence we need a way to be able to use our subscription when building NetEye containers. RedHat allows…
Read MoreWithin our Research and Development team we maintain a set of both physical and virtual machines for many purposes: internal repository mirrors, CI/CD, testing, internal docker registry, etc… Maintaining them is demanding, especially considering that our infrastructure has grown over the years and was often configured by different colleagues using different software and tools. And…
Read MoreWe have fixed a problem related to a Perl dependency which was causing issues in forwarding snmptrap events to Tornado. For NetEye 4.24 we updated the following packages: eventhandler, eventhandler-autosetup and eventhandler-neteye-config to version 1.8.1-1 neteye-setup to version 1.86.3-1
Read MoreWe have fixed a problem related to a Perl dependency which was causing issues in forwarding snmptrap events to Tornado. For NetEye 4.23 we updated the following packages: eventhandler, eventhandler-autosetup and eventhandler-neteye-config to version 1.8.1-1 neteye-setup to version 1.85.6-1
Read MoreDesired State Configuration (DSC) is a feature in Powershell 4.0 and above that helps administrators to automate the configuration of Windows. I’ll show you below how to use it in order to maintain a consistent Icinga agent configuration across your Windows servers. Our use case As an admin I would like to distribute and configure the…
Read MoreWelcome back to our ongoing series of how to improve the video tutorials you make, especially when you’re on a tight budget, and by that I mean both money and time. Today let’s look at conducting a live, one-on-one in-person interview. Note that online interviews and documentary-style off-screen interviews are their own full, separate topics)….
Read MoreHere we are with the second part of our article. If you missed the first one, here’s the link: https://www.neteye-blog.com/2022/03/jira-discovery-a-quick-way-to-manage-your-assets/ In this second part we will see how to import assets discovered using the Jira Discovery Tool. Let’s go into our Jira Service Management: Create a new Object Schema that we will call Import: Next…
Read MoreIntroduction In this article I’ll introduce a feature that some customers have frequently asked for. The customers’ request is linked to the fact that automation (whether via Tornado, ad-hoc scripts, etc.) generate a lot of services “on the fly”, for example as shown in my previous blog post. These services are created, updated and eventually…
Read MoreIPMI (the Intelligent Platform Management Interface) has been the de facto standard for managing and monitoring computer hardware for many years, but as Intel explicitly stated here no further updates to the IPMI specification are planned or should be expected. “No further updates to the IPMI specification are planned or should be expected. The IPMI…
Read MoreIn a previous article I analyzed how you can create effective visualizations in Kibana, and how to apply machine learning jobs with the goal of extracting as much information as possible from our data. However, you can also think of data as a raw material, which sometimes needs to be transformed and manipulated before allowing…
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