Preamble:A use case from one of our clients required scanning several subnets to locate all the printers that should be imported into GLPI. Their infrastructure features a cloud-based NetEye Master and a Satellite within their farm. The connection between the master and the satellite is unidirectional – from the Satellite to the Master. With this…
Read MoreA brief introduction to Whiteboards, a new tool that facilitates a new form of collaboration between people. Why are we still talking about the documentation problem? In my previous post, we discussed the challenging topic of documentation management within a company, an aspect that’s often underestimated, and not properly rationalized and engineered. Also in this…
Read MoreIn some test or development environments, you may need to simulate the presence of GSM modems without having an actual physical device. This can be useful for example when testing monitoring checks, SMS management systems, or creating new notification rules. In this post I’ll show you how I created a serial modem emulation service. The…
Read MoreFix for icinga2 check processing We fixed a race-condition in icinga2, where a lock was not held long enough, causing threads to overwrite local state when processing two simultaneous check results for the same object. List of updated packages To solve the issue, the following packages have been updated:
Read MoreOur older customers surely know that, in its earliest releases, NetEye 4 had no support for multitenancy. From a data perspective, there’s just one big bin we throw everything into to be used later. Then, a debate about multitenancy began. Here at Würth Phoenix we’ve discussed at length about the best way to segregate data…
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Customer experience is a crucial factor for the success of any IT support team. Often, agents manage tickets without a clear understanding of the customer’s emotional state, making it difficult to respond appropriately. To tackle this challenge, Jira Service Management has introduced the Customer Sentiment feature, an AI-powered tool that analyzes the customer’s tone to…
Read MoreThis article gives an overview and offers a practical tips to detecting some suspicious activities in Microsoft SQL Server, from configuring audit policies to leveraging Elastic for effective monitoring and threat detection. Introduction Microsoft SQL Server is one of the most widely used relational databases in the enterprise landscape, managing critical data and supporting essential…
Read MoreImportant: GeoMap update Type/Severity NetEye Product Security has rated this update as having a High security impact. Topic An update for the package icingaweb2-module-geomap is now available for NetEye 4. Security Fix for NetEye 4.40 CVSSv3.1: 7.3(High) – CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N For a detailed overview of the security issue(s), including the impact, CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other relevant information, please…
Read MoreImportant: Elastic Stack security update (installed with SIEM) Type/Severity NetEye Product Security has rated this update as having a Critical security impact. Topic An update for the package kibana is now available for NetEye 4. Security Fix for NetEye 4.40 CVSSv3.1: 9.9(Critical) – CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H For a detailed overview of the security issue(s), including the impact, CVSS score, acknowledgments,…
Read MoreUse Case During NetEye Cloud updates we typically have to handle 25+ nodes, updating both OS and Firmware and subsequently rebooting all servers, all without causing downtime. We can of course reboot one node a time, but this would be really time-consuming. The main constraints on reboot are PCS nodes and Elastic layers. In particular…
Read MoreWelcome back! Last time we looked at some concrete examples of animations where you can use math to animate large numbers of objects, field-like effects, or complex behavior. Today let’s look at the principal barrier to using an animation you make (if it’s not a filled rectangle and if you want to put it in…
Read MoreFix for icinga2 satellites zone validation Fixed an issue with the icinga2 satellites zone validation that caused the neteye satellite config create to fail if one of the icinga2-zone is a sub-string of the others List of updated packages To solve the issue, the following packages have been updated
Read MoreRemove “Drop non-existing group during Sync” on LDAP user federations Remove flag “Drop non-existing group during Sync” on LDAP user federations List of updated packages To solve the issue, the following packages have been updated: keycloak, keycloak-autosetup, keycloak-configurator, keycloak-python, to versions:
Read More⚠️ Warning: This article is intended for educational and ethical purposes only ⚠️ Red teamers don’t often engage in DDoS campaigns or stress testing against client systems, mainly for two reasons: However, there are cases where clients explicitly request such activities. When that happens, the red team must be thoroughly prepared; both legally, to clearly…
Read MoreImportant: IcingWeb2 Module Analytics security update Type/Severity NetEye Product Security has rated this update as having a Medium security impact. Topic An update for the package icingaweb2-module-analytics is now available for NetEye 4. Security Fix for NetEye 4.40 CVSS: 6.3 (medium): CVSS3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N For a detailed overview of the security issue(s), including the impact, CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other…
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