Nectus release 1.60 includes with a new VMware monitoring module. Nectus can monitor following VMware infrastructure elements: vCenter servers ESX Hosts Datastores Virtual Machines Nectus can monitor and alert on following metrics for all elements: ICMP Availability and Latency CPU utilization RAM utilization Storage free space availabilty Disk Read/Write rates Disk I/O Transactions rate Disk […]
This guide explains how to generate the CSR code and install a commercial SSL certificate for Windows Apache so that you could access your Nectus GUI page securely via HTTPS. It assumes that during Nectus installation, you selected the default location which is C:\Program Files\Nectus. If you installed Nectus in a different folder, make sure […]
Configuring Linux Monitoring in Nectus Nectus Server 1.55 adds feature to monitor some system parameters on hosts running Linux. Enabling this feature for your infrastructure requires two steps: Configuring of Nectus Server; Installing and configuring of Nectus remote agents on target Linux machines. This guide describes steps for Nectus Server configs. Installing and configuring of […]
Device View Auto Population Rules Device View is the logical grouping of the devices that can be used in different places within the Nectus application. In the previous versions of Nectus, the user would manually add devices into device views which may become a significant management overhead. In Nectus version 1.55 we introduced an ability […]
Linux Monitoring Agent Installation Nectus Linux Monitoring Agent is required to be installed on target machine to enable Nectus to monitor Linux system parameters such as CPU and RAM utilization, Storage and Network Utilization. Agent collects all the required monitoring metrics and reports to the main Nectus Server every 5 minutes. Step 1: Download […]
ClickHouse Database Installation for Nectus Netflow & Syslog Storage Requirements: Ubuntu Server 18.04.2 LTS (with SSH access) NOTE: Although ClickHouse can be installed on several different flavors of Linux, Ubuntu Server 16.04 & 18.04 are the only supported Linux distributions for Nectus at this point. More information about installation on other OS’s can be found here: https://clickhouse.yandex/docs/en/getting_started/ […]
Monitoring BGP Sessions with Nectus Nectus 1.2.53 introduces ability to automatically discover and monitor iBGP and eBGP sessions across all router types and manufacturers. Nectus scheduled network discovery automatically finds all the BGP sessions via SNMP polls and adds it to Nectus database where user can group them by type and enable active monitoring and […]
BGP sessions monitoring with UP/DOWN Alerting Linux Servers Monitoring (CPU, RAM, Storage, Up/Down)
UPS Status Monitoring with Nectus Health monitoring of UPS units is one of the most critical tasks of network infrastructure monitoring. If UPS fails during power outage it results in immediate network downtime resulting in loss of revenue and degrading user experience. Most of the modern UPS Units perform daily self-tests and results of those […]
Suppression of Frequent Identical Alerts In Nectus Often when a network device or interface changes its state between Up and Down multiple times in a short time interval, numerous identical alerts will be sent to all the configured alert recipients. Nectus offers the ability to suppress frequent identical alerts to reduce informational noise level by […]
Importing WMI Servers from CSV file to Nectus To import a list of Windows Servers from CSV file to Nectus prepare a CSV file with only single column containing list of IP addresses of Windows Servers. No other information is required. File format example in Excel. To start import, right-click on WMI Server Group that you […]
Configuring WMI Integration in Nectus Nectus uses WMI Interface in several of its modules. List of modules that depends on WMI Integration: Windows Server Monitoring Module IPAM Module In Windows Server Monitoring module Nectus uses WMI interface to poll Windows Servers for critical health metrics such as CPU and RAM Utilization etc. In IPAM Module […]
Adjusting Min. detectable ICMP outage duration in Nectus When Nectus is configured to monitor UP/DOWN Status for network devices with ICMP it sends Echo packets at preset interval called Inter-Packet Delay. By default, this Interval is set to 10 seconds. Network Device is considered down if Echo-Reply is not received for “N” consecutive Echo packets. […]
Monitoring HTTP URLs with Nectus NMS Have you ever been surprised to find out your website hadn’t been running or online? Realtime status updates of your website can relieve you of the frustration of downtime and provide with instant alerts to your team. Nectus HTTP Monitoring module can take the burden of URL monitoring away […]
Multiple Alert Email Aggregation in Nectus Very often during site level power or network outages or during network maintenance multiple devices become offline at the same time causing multiple individual DOWN Email alerts to be sent at the same time. Depending in the size of the site it can be well over hundreds or even […]
Monitoring Cisco Power Supplies with SNMP Step 1. Determine which SNMP OID to use Very first step before you can start monitoring power supply status is to determine which SNMP OID is supported by specific router or switch type you want to monitor. The main challenge here is that there is no consensus among manufacturers […]
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Using Subnet Profiles in Nectus IPAM One of the unique features offered by Nectus is the ability to logically split each subnet into predefined ranges reserved for specific categories such as users, servers, infrastructure devices, etc. This is done with the help of subnet profiles. In Nectus, subnet profile is a set of IP ranges […]
When importing Subnets into IPAM from routing protocols Nectus apply following rules: Only subnets from IGRP routing protocols (EIGRP, OSPF, ISIS, RIP) are being considered for import. Nectus will not import subnets from iBGP or eBGP. Nectus start importing subnets in the order from smallest to largest: /32 , /31, then /30, then /29…etc. This […]