Do you ever need to reboot or do maintenance on your Windows Server? Then if the server is monitored by NetEye, you’ll surely want to mark it in downtime so as not to have notifications sent out for problems arising due to maintenance, and/or to be able to have the correct SLA marked for your…
Read MoreCurrently, deploying an Icinga 2 Agent on a Linux system can be intricate, given the substantial variations in the process across different releases or OS families. For instance: Fortunately, there’s no need to develop and maintain a custom script to manage these diverse scenarios. We can leverage the readily available Ansible Plugins for this purpose….
Read MoreScenario Veeam Backup & Replication product is widely used for backuping virtual machines, primary hosted on VMware vSphere infrastructure. It could also backup physical machines through dedicated agents. It’s very important to keep the backup status monitored: it would be nice to get the backup status through the Icinga2 agent in an easy way. PowerShell…
Read MoreIn our previous post we discussed how to handle RD users using CMDO, focusing on the scripts needed to obtain a unique identifier for each users in the RD Farm. In this post I want to focus on how to create the CMDO commands and set their permissions correctly. Our user caseAs an admin I…
Read MoreScenarioIn a Microsoft Remote Desktop environment, it’s a common need to force the logoff of a hanged user session. The NetEye Command Orchestrator (CMDO) can help us perform this task by executing remote commands through the Icinga2 agent API. There’s a security limitation built into the Command Orchestrator which allows only numeric parameters for executed…
Read MoreIn recent months many enterprise customers have asked me for a solution to create services on their monitored Icinga hosts automatically. They want a single point of insertion (like a list) for all services on the host as well as for the NetEye system to do all the work managing their creation and deletion. How…
Read MoreDuring migrations from NetEye 3 to NetEye 4, I often run into really outdated monitoring checks in the Windows world, where the last update was more than 10 years ago… and whose logic is therefore now completely obsolete! The time for change is now!!! In the last year Icinga released a really interesting project that…
Read MoreWe fixed wrong permissions on spool directory, which were preventing send sms-notification. For NetEye 4.18 we updated the following packages: smstools-neteye-config to version 1.5.1-1 icinga2, icinga2-autosetup, icinga2-bin, icinga2-common, icinga2-debuginfo, icinga2-doc, icinga2-ido-mysql, icinga2-ido-pgsql, icinga2-neteye-config, icinga2-resources, icinga2-selinux to version 2.11.6_neteye1.33.1-1
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 MoreSome of my customers make use of short-expiration SSL Certificates signed by Let’s Encrypt or similar services. Our company also makes extensive use of this kind of certificate, and in the near future most (if not all) of your SSL Certificates will in any event become like them as their expiration date approaches. Maybe some…
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 MoreIn the last 10-or-so years, the complexity of enterprise IT applications has greatly increased: each of them can span vertically with multiple (and complex) layers, and each layer can serve applications other than the one that it’s part of. And, obviously, each layer spans across several servers to increase performance and availability. This inevitably leads…
Read MoreAs you may already know, starting with version 4.12 NetEye 4 upgraded its Icinga 2 engine from version 2.10.5 to version 2.11.3. At every training session, I always emphasize this rule: Icinga 2 Master Instance version >= Icinga 2 Satellite Instance version >= Icinga 2 Agent Instance version And thus everyone expects that his or…
Read MoreOver the past few months, I’ve received multiple client requests to export custom fields (custom variables or data lists) present in Icinga Director in order to enrich logs on Logstash or to make specific changes to the indexing process. The solution that I am going to explain in this article uses the Icinga DSL check…
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…
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