Lately we’ve heard over and over about alternative instant messaging applications similar to the more famous WhatsApp. We’ve talked before about the possibility of implementing notifications from our monitoring system through Telegram. In this article we’ll talk about an alternative application to these two: Signal is a cross-platform, centralized encrypted messaging service. It uses the…
Read MoreTo be able to make Elasticsearch Snapshots you need shared storage mounted on all Elasticsearch Data Nodes. There are various possible file systems you can use for this: GFS, NFS, CIFS and GlusterFS. What is GlusterFS GlusterFS is a scalable network file system suitable for data-intensive tasks such as cloud storage and media streaming. GlusterFS…
Read MoreWe set the retention of the Icinga2 downtime history to infinite, so that downtimes are never deleted from the Icinga2 IDO. For NetEye 4.16 we updated the following packages: icinga2 to version 2.11.6_neteye1.22.5-1
Read MoreWe changed the default value for the Icinga Monitoring retention policy to 1 year and 6 months (550 days). The retention policy defined will directly affect the SLM report generation. This means that no report data will be available older than the defined retention policy. This parameter can be adapted to user needs, following the…
Read MoreWe improved the documentation about the Shutdown Manager Module including information about CheckCommand that is now used instead of a service to execute the shutdown command and new shutdown manager ApiUser configuration object for authentication. For NetEye 4.16 we updated to version 2.0.1-1 following packages: icingaweb2-module-shutdownmanager icingaweb2-module-shutdownmanager-autosetup
Read MoreWe improved the documentation about Icinga2 agent installation including detailed information about supported operating systems and versions. For NetEye 4.16 we updated to version 1.80.3-1 following packages: icingaweb2-module-neteye icingaweb2-module-neteye-autosetup
Read MoreWelcome to version 4.16 of our NetEye v4 Unified Monitoring Solution. A difficult and tough year for everyone has gone, leaving us with uncertainty, some thoughts, and lots of hope for the new year.NetEye welcomes the new year and its new release with a snow-covered view of the Alpe di Siusi/Seiseralm, for a glimpse of…
Read MoreWe fixed a problem in the NetEye upgrade manager for which the automatic upgrade was not able to complete because of a failure during the installed yum groups update. For NetEye 4.15 we updated: neteye-upgrade-manager to version 0.6.1-1
Read MoreNow, if you’ve followed my previous blogs about the x509 Module, you should have in place your x509 Certificates Asset with (or without) a minimum of cleanup routines. Now it’s time to look at what Icinga was made for: monitoring. Making an asset out of all of your SSL Certificates is only half the job….
Read MoreWe fixed a problem for which dashboards were not rendered correctly and dashboards columns were truncated on some browsers if the content was too long. For NetEye 4.15 we updated: icingaweb2, icingaweb2-vendor-zf1, icingaweb2-vendor-JShrink, icingacli, icingaweb2-vendor-lessphp, icingaweb2-vendor-HTMLPurifier, php-Icinga, icingaweb2-autosetup, icingaweb2-vendor-dompdf, icingaweb2-common, icingaweb2-vendor-Parsedown to version 2.8.2_neteye1.80.3-1
Read MoreWe improved visibility of buttons with icon for ntopng For NetEye 4.15 we updated: ntopng-neteye-config ntopng-neteye-config–autosetup to version 1.6.1-1
Read MoreAs a NetEye user I might want to install a Remote Host Agent that belongs to a Zone that can’t communicate directly with the Master. So to be able to do this, we decided to use Tornado and NATS. Linking with Patrick’s article in this article I’ll explain how to configure them. What we want…
Read MoreIn my previous post I showed you how to make your own alerts on NetEye SIEM by using the Elastic Watcher and Alerts and Actions features. But if we work in production environments, what we really need is an alert that can go directly to NetEye’s Monitoring Overview. How can we manage SIEM alerts and…
Read MoreThe main goal of a monitoring system like NetEye is to alert and notify you when something noteworthy happens in your environment. All the logs coming in to NetEye SIEM can be analyzed, and could raise one or more alerts in the Elastic Stack, such as detection, machine learning anomalies, etc. How can you make…
Read MoreIn my previous post I described the kind of tasks, resources and software that we had to master in order to create YouTube IT tutorial videos like the 20 Alyvix videos we made in 2020. As we looked back to compare the first few videos we made with the last few, it was easy to…
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