The conventional thing in a monitoring environment is to notify problems to your staff over E-Mail. Other than E-Mails also SMS are a very common notification type. But is this all we can offer to notify people about problems in our IT? Obviously, there is more than that. Two very handy examples are: Notifications over the Telegram App…
Read MoreMassimo Giaimo, Senior System & Network Administrator at IBT, shares his experience with Alyvix and NetEye. What are the most recent significant changes in the application monitoring? For decades, IT departments have mainly implemented performance-monitoring strategies through the control of the uptime of the systems. Only in recent years, companies realized that is not sufficient…
Read MoreIn addition to the well-known top dogs such as Cisco, HP and Juniper, also Huawei is steadly spreading in the field of network devices. I have taken this fact as an impulse to connect a Huawei 2751 S2751- 28TP-PWR-EI-AC to a NetEye appliance and to test which information can be retrieved. The device I tested…
Read MoreThe neteye-plugins package has been updated with this fixes:
Read MoreAs described on one of my previous post about UPS Monitoring we developed a NetEye check plugin to monitor the UPS devices and report data on them. In the past months we have been working on this features by adding a lot of more devices to the plugin. These devices are UPSs and energy stations….
Read MoreOne of the main challenge in the IT monitoring is the ability to execute complex web service tests to obtain objective KPI able to evaluate the end user experience. As every company we also needed to control our web applications such as the Exchange 2013, our Service Desk solution EriZone powered by OTRS, our reporting…
Read MoreVideo live-stream from the CeBIT: the End User Experience with the Open Source project Al’exa. The live presentation had been already held. The download version will be available soon. We’ll keep you up to date.
Read MoreModern Java application servers can be a complex construct of services and business logic. It is not possible to monitor them through conventional ways, like checking if a process is running. Within a Java application server multiple components are bundled together, to hold logic and provide intelligence for the application. For everyone who has some…
Read MoreGeorg last week presented its enhanced IT Service Management offer with NetEye at the yearly Open Source Conference in Milan. The breakout session pointed out the advantages in implementing NetEye for the Network Traffic Monitoring and focused also on Al´exa. Al’exa, which has recently been integrated in the NetEye offer simulates the end user behavior to…
Read MoreDuring the implementation of a NetEye project, one of our customer had the need to integrate into NetEye the checks performed on AS400 environments. In this context, we have realized a custom integration that allows users to directly understand the performance of various AS4/00 processes in NetEye and to receive notifications in case of anomalies…
Read MoreThe new SNMP_Interface_Table, that has been integrated into NetEye, aims to monitor all the switch ports. The check , in fact, provides detailed information and the respective graphs on the single ports for the inbound and outbound traffic. What is particularly interesting about this check is the easy and quick setup, in fact through a…
Read MoreIn addition to the check_snmp_cpfw.pl where you can keep control of active connections, the Secure Virtual Network or the HA status I wanted to keep track of the basic hardware conditions of CP devices. For this I’ve extended the check_snmp_environment.pl ( check_snmp_environment.pl.tar ) adding in addition to other platforms also the SNMP support for CheckPoint firewalls….
Read MoreA customer has recently required to monitor their IBM Storewize V7000. The control of the SAN IBM was crucial for the company as these systems were in failover with critical data replication. It was frequently happening that the replication process was interrupted and till now no solutions were implemented to send prompt notifications in case…
Read MoreThe Real User Experience Monitoring (RUM) is a new approach adopted to provide specific control on IT services and systems, allowing to analyse the performance and response time that the user really experiences. If you have an application behind a load balancer and the probe is between the client and the load balancer, the RUM retrieves…
Read MoreI just today saw a page with good ideas for check for a Windows/Exchange/SQL Server. This is the original link if you are interested nagioswiki.com. Please pay attention when copy pasting it to your config files as you may have problems copy/past of the “ sign. Insert the following into you commands.cfg or define them…
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