Creating MS SQL DB Monitoring Service Account for Nectus Step 1 : Connect to MS SQL Server Step 2 : Under “Security” tab, open “Logins” section. Step 3 : Right-click on “Logins” section , and select “New Login”. Step 4 : Fill in the required information for the […]
Nectus and Azure SAML Integration Step 1: Navigate to Identity -> Enterprise Applications from within the Azure Portal: Step 2: To add a new application, click the new application button: Step 3: Create your own application: Step 4: In the application panel, select Non-Gallery application and enter a […]
How to Create a Maintenance Events in Nectus You can create maintenance events in Nectus to allow everybody to see that specific objects (Interface, Device or Site) have an active or scheduled maintenance. During active maintenance events corresponding objects in Nectus are displayed with a blue status icon. This article shows how to create a […]
Step 1: Login to the Nectus GUI, and go to the specific device, identify the interfaces which have to be graphed in a combined view. Step 2: Select the multiple interfaces, Right-Click on the Selected Interfaces and go to Graphs -> Interface Utilization Graph. Step 3: Here is the default view, where all […]
Restricting Users From Using Specific Nectus GUI Features Quick Start Step 1: Let’s login to the Nectus GUI using the superadmin user credentials. Step 2: Click on the Setting Menu and select admin accounts (Settings -> Admin Accounts). Now the new modal opens with two tabs (Users List, User Groups). Step 3: First, let’s create […]
How to Override Group Based Monitoring Settings for Specific Devices By default, all the monitoring settings for each device are defined in the Monitoring Profile that is assigned to Monitoring Group where this specific device is a member of. Starting from 1.67.1 release Nectus adds ability to override group-based monitoring settings for each device. Step1: Login […]
Step 1: Login to the Nectus Portal and go to Monitoring -> Network Monitoring Settings -> SNMP Interfaces Monitoring Settings. Step 2: Monitoring Profile Creation – Go to the SNMP Interface Monitoring Profile Tab by clicking the Add Profile button. Name the profile, enable the relevant options, and click the OK button. Now, we […]
Network device monitoring in Nectus is controlled by device monitoring groups and associated monitoring profiles. There are two default monitoring groups: “Default Monitoring Group” and “No Monitoring Group” By default all devices are automatically assigned to Default Monitoring Group where all basic monitoring metric are enabled. “No Monitoring Group” is used as a parking place […]
Step 1: Log in to the Nectus Portal and go to Settings > General Settings > SAML Integration. Step 2: In the SAML Integration Modal, under the General tab, provide the Entity ID, SSO URL and SLO URL, Certificate, Organization URL and API token. Refer to SAML provider documentation on how to generate Certificate […]
Automating Selection of Interfaces Enabled for Monitoring By default, Nectus does not monitor any Interfaces and you must select which interfaces you want to be monitored. You can select Interfaces manually by adding it to one of the Interface monitoring groups or you can build auto-population rules that will automatically select Interfaces based on predefined […]
How to Manually Add Device Classification for Unknown Devices Step 1: Nectus maintains internal device classification database where each device is assigned a major platform category and a device model name. Classification is associated with device SNMP Platform OID: (.1.3.6.1.2.1.1.2.0) Classification database is updated daily and support for new devices included in every Nectus update. […]
Controlling Nectus Database Size with Data Retention Rules Step 1: Login to Nectus portal and go to Monitoring 🡪 Global Monitoring Settings option. Step 2: Go to the “Data Retention” tab in the Monitoring Settings modal. It shows retention settings in days for each monitoring metric. Further, it also shows the current database size […]
How to Control Logging in Nectus via .ini Files If there is a need to reduce amount of disk space Nectus Logs take you can adjust logging verbosity or disable logging completely for each Nectus Service. Logging settings for each service is controlled by .INI files located in C:\Program Files\Nectus\ Any changes to .INI files […]
How to Monitor Number of Active TCP Sessions on PaloAlto Firewalls Quick Start Step 1: Login to Nectus and go to Monitoring -> Network Monitoring Settings -> Custom SNMP Trackers. Step 2: Click on the Create button to create a new SNMP Custom Tracker that will be collecting number of active TCP sessions every 5min. […]
How to Monitor Number of Active UDP Sessions on PaloAlto Firewalls Quick Start Step 1: Login to Nectus and go to Monitoring -> Network Monitoring Settings -> Custom SNMP Trackers. Step 2: Click on the Create button to create a new SNMP Custom Tracker that will be collecting number of active UDP sessions every 5min. […]
How to Monitor Number of Active ICMP Sessions on PaloAlto Firewalls Quick Start Step 1: Login to Nectus and go to Monitoring -> Network Monitoring Settings -> Custom SNMP Trackers. Step 2: Click on the Create button to create a new SNMP Custom Tracker that will be collecting number of active ICMP sessions every 5min. […]
How to Monitor Number of Palo Alto VPN (Global Protect) Users Step 1: Login to Nectus and go to Monitoring -> Network Monitoring Settings -> Custom SNMP Trackers. Step 2: Click on the Create button to create a new SNMP Custom Tracker that will be collecting number of connected VPN users every 5min. Palo […]
Nectus DB Migration by manually copying DB to a new server. Step 1: Prepare new server by performing clean Nectus installation with the same Nectus version as on old server Step 2: Stop all Nectus services on the new server Step 3: Delete all the content from “C:\Program Files\Nectus\Database” folder on new server. Step 4: […]
Performing Nectus DB migration to a new server with “DB Migration” tool DB Migration tool is only available to users with Super Admin rights. Prepare new server with clean Nectus installation with the same Nectus version as on old server. Step 1: Login to the old Nectus server and go to Settings -> Database […]
Generating Alerts Based on SNMP Traps Step 1: Login to the Nectus portal, go to the Logs -> SNMP Traps. Step 2: You will see two Tabs “SNMP Traps” and “SNMP Trap OID Alerts”. “SNMP Traps” Tab contain list of all the SNMP Traps received by Nectus server from all the network devices. […]