Fixed the autosetup for setting the default retention policy of InfluxDb to 365 days, which was not working properly on clusters. For NetEye 4.6 we updated: influxdb to version 1.6.3_neteye2.3.1-1 For NetEye 4.5 we updated: influxdb to version 1.6.3_neteye2.2.3-1
Read MoreAs mentioned in the previous post of this series, at Würth Phoenix we build our NetEye ISOs from scratch every night to be sure that every morning everything will be fresh.To perform this activity with no manual intervention in a robust, repeatable, and reliable way, the R&D team uses Jenkins, a well known open source…
Read MoreHere at Würth Phoenix, we ship software in many different ways, but one of the main methods to support on-premise installations is with an ISO file. With the ISO we allow our customers to install NetEye, the underlying OS, and all dependencies in a flexible yet simple way. Since this is so important, how can…
Read MoreFixed NetEye cluster base setup accepting invalid characters in hostnames. For NetEye 4.6 we updated: neteye-setup to version 1.14.3-1
Read MoreUntil now, authentication of NetEye users on Grafana was achieved by means of session cookies, which were provided by the Grafana server when authenticating in Icinga Web 2. However, with the upgrade of Grafana from version 5.2 to version 6.2, we can no longer employ this authentication procedure because Grafana has discontinued the use of…
Read MoreAs soon as you manage more than a few DRBD resources distributed over a wide set of hardware, split brain situations cannot always be avoided. Standard split brains are caused by multiple nodes having different opinions about the latest state of the data on their local disk. Disclaimer: If applied incorrectly, commands in this blog…
Read MoreThe Safed agent for AIX version 7.1 now supports TLS 1.3 based on WolfSSL 3.15.7. The Safed agent 1.10.1 for UX is available on our github repository. Follow the steps described in the README file to compile and install both wolfssl 3.15.7 and safed 1.10.1 After that is will be possible to configure the secure…
Read MoreIn a previous blog post I presented how the Log Management architecture fits in a NetEye cluster, and now I want to summarize my recent experiences to help you diagnose Elasticsearch health issues. Elasticsearch provides a set of APIs which help to identify and debug a number of potential causes. But NetEye Log Management is…
Read MoreAutomating the monitoring process in Enterprise environments is a challenge that led Icinga to create features such as their REST API and the Icinga Director module. In both new NetEye4 projects and those being migrated from NetEye3 to NetEye4, this challenge is one of the aspects that I highlight the most and is certainly one…
Read MoreThe Agent’s distribution is probably one of those more time-consuming tasks. This can be for various reasons: different operating systems, network segregation, administrative credentials that are difficult to obtain, or even more simply, a large number of Agents to install. We know that the Agent installation on Windows servers is made easier by this PowerShell…
Read MoreFixed problem of icingaweb2-module-director-jobs.service being inactive by default For NetEye 4.6 we updated: icingaweb2-module-director to version 1.6.2_neteye1.6.3-2 neteye-setup to version 1.14.2-1
Read MoreLast month, NetEye’s Elastic Stack received a much-awaited upgrade. The upgrade consisted of granting NetEye users the possibility of having access to the full set of features that the Elastic Stack provides upon setting up an additional NetEye SIEM subscription. Originally, the stack implemented on NetEye packaged the standard set of well-known ELK features: Elasticsearch,…
Read MoreThese whiteboards with handdrawn swimlanes and lots of apparently randomly placed sticky notes are present nowadays in most developers’ offices. Kanban (Japanese for “signboard”) is however not just a visualization strategy. It originated as a method for production planning, first used at Toyota, and its ideas were adopted for software development 15 years ago. A…
Read MoreDozens of new toy ideas arrive every day at Kenner Toys. Each of them must be evaluated and approved by all three partners: the brothers Huey (the Marketing Manager), Dewey (the Sales Manager) and Louie (the Finance Manager). They often travel to remote places around the world so it is Uncle Donald who must verify…
Read MoreAs did for the last year edition, our DevOps team participated at InfluxDays, a conference organized by InfluxData and focused on time series data. We were really looking at the event with excitement, for all the new features InfluxData is putting into the new InfluxDB 2.0. So, apart from grabbing a very nice t-shirt, we…
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