EOL advance notice

A NetPing 2/PWR-220 v3/ETH device will be labeled as EOL on our website.

This is an advance notice. In a certain period of time after this notice (usually, in 1 week), we are going to label a device with an EOL status at our website. In some more time, (usually, in 1 month) we are going to label a device as "Archived" as a device will be unavailable for purchase on our website.

The device Supply voltage sensor has been archived on our website www.netpingdevice.ru.

NetPing east Co Ltd. announces the release of a firmware update for its NetPing 2 IP PDU GSM3G 203R15 and NetPing 2 IP PDU ETH 53R14 devices power control devices. These new device firmware versions include new features and bug fixes.

NetPing east Co Ltd., a developer and manufacturer of the original equipment for monitoring  and remote power control via Ethernet/Internet, announces the sale of a new Airflow sensor + GRID 120*120*10mm NC.

EOL notice

A Supply voltage sensor marked as EOL on our website.

EOL advance notice

A Supply voltage sensor device will be labeled as EOL on our website.

The NetPing company, which is the developer and manufacturer of the original equipment for monitoring and remote electric power control over the network Ethernet/Internet, is announcing the sale of a new  NetPing Supply Voltage Sensor 995S2 (DKST 995-02). This sensor is designed to detect the supply or failure of AC voltage. 

The company NetPing east Co Ltd. announces the issue if firmware updates for the devices of remote power supply control NetPing 8/PWR-220 v4/SMS. New firmware versions contain new features and error fixes.

Our official partner in Kazakhstan Gain Technology opened a demo stand on the basis of NetPing equipment in its office with the aim to show the features of a monitoring system of microclimate and state of a server room as well as a remote power management system for server equipment. Sensors of a monitoring system are mounted in one server cabinet for clarity. The system is connected and functioning: it controls an air conditioner unit in the office, monitors the input UPS power and temperature and humidity in a closet as well as controls a power of a modem to reboot it remotely if it freezes.

«... A template is a set of objects that can be applied to several network nodes.

Objects may be as follows:

• data elements;
• triggers;
• graphs;
• groups of data elements;
• complex screens (starting from Zabbix 2.0);
• rules of a low-level detection (starting with Zabbix 2.0);
• web scenarios (starting from Zabbix 2.2)

As soon as many network nodes are similar or alike in a real-life, the sets of objects (data elements, triggers, and graphs...), created by you for a certain network node, can be useful for many nodes. Certainly, you can copy them for each new network node, but this would require a lot of manual work. Instead, you can use templates and copy these objects into one template and then apply it to any number of required network nodes.

It is difficult to imagine modern life without informational technologies, such as electronic databases, directories, search engines, systems of company and corporation management, bank management, transportation management, control of technological processes at industries and many more. Today, there are information and management systems in the basis of these technologies that are designed on the basis of electric equipment of various purposes, such as servers, data storage systems, data transfer devices, supercomputers, and other important components. There is a need to ensure appropriate conditions so that these information and management systems that the comfort and often safety of our lives is dependable at, operate flawlessly in a proper environment suitable for the equipment that they are designed of, and their physical safety. This equipment must work flawlessly 24 hours a day 365 days a year providing the services that we need.

The NetPing east Co Ltd. company announces issuing the firmware update for the NetPing SMS gateway. New firmware versions for devices contain new features and error corrections.

The company NetPing east Co Ltd. announces the issue of firmware updates for the devices for monitoring microclimate in server rooms UniPing server solution v4/SMS and UniPing server solution v3. New firmware versions of devices include changes in functionality and error fixes.

This article is a logic sequel to the article «Example of Server Room Monitoring on the Basis of MONIT, INFLUXDB, GRAFANA, and NetPing Monitoring Units». Within this article, a feature of configuring SMS notifications from the Monit monitoring system using NetPing SMS gateway will be examined (hardware SMS gateway for Monit).

For sending SMS, it is possible to use the next devices of the NetPing company:

• a gateway for sending and receiving SMS notifications NetPing SMS;
• a device for monitoring microclimate of server rooms UniPing server solution v4/SMS;
• a device for remote power control (IP power distribution unit) for the server equipment NetPing 8/PWR-220 v4/SMS

A feature of SMS notifications will allow the IT personnel to react to events in the network urgently and thus minimize business downtime caused by failures in the operation of the IT equipment. Also, a company can significantly save on third-party services for SMS-sending because in this case, the cost of SMS will correspond to the tariff provided by the cell operator with no additional commissions.

Icinga is a monitoring system with the open source code. It was originally created as a branch of the Nagios monitoring system and resembles it very much. In this article, we will examine the example of configuring Icinga for working with the server room microclimate monitoring device UniPing server solution v4/SMS and install add-ons for building graphs and a map.

To implement a regarded solution, we will need:

1. A server with the installed Debian 9 (in the article, the IP address is 192.168.0.45);
2. UniPing server solution v4/SMS (in the article, the IP address is 192.168.0.100);
3. 1-Wire temperature sensor;
4. 1-Wire humidity sensor;
5. Door sensor;
6. Liquid sensor;
7. Airflow sensor;
8. Supply voltage sensor

The Dude network monitor is an application developed by the Latvian company MikroTik that can significantly improve the operation of the network environment. The application automatically scans all devices in specific subnetworks, draws and complies a network map as well as tracks services of devices and warns if some services have issues. A current version of The Dude server (when writing this article, it was the version 6.43.7 Stable) works under RouterOS only and allows monitoring the entire network infrastructure, from routers and switches to servers and virtual machines. Devices for microclimate monitoring of server rooms and remote controlling of the power supply (IP PDU) by NetPing company can also be connected to The Dude network monitor. A connection process is explored in details here. Also, we examined the process of configuration of e-mail notifications from The Dude in our blog before. In this article, we will consider a way of expanding the functionality of The Dude for sending SMS notifications about monitoring events (SMS gateway for The Dude). To send SMS, it is possible to use the next devices by NetPing company:

• a gateway for sending and receiving SMS notifications NetPing SMS;
• a microclimate monitoring device for server rooms UniPing server solution v4/SMS;
• a device for controlling the remote power supply (IP power distribution unit) for the server equipment NetPing 8/PWR-220 v4/SMS

A feature of SMS notifications will allow IT personnel to react to network events quicker and minimize business downtime caused by the IT equipment failure. Also, a company will be able to significantly save on third-party services for sending SMS because in this case, the price of SMS will correspond to the price charged by the cell phone operator with no additional commissions.

Logically, this article is a continuation of the article "Example of Monitoring a Server Room on a Basis of OpenNMS and NetPing Devices". Within this article, a feature of configuring SMS notifications from OpenNMS using NetPing SMS (SMS gateway for OpenNMS) will be regarded. 

When network engineers and administrators work, they often need to receive notifications in any time seven days a week. What communication means can be more suitable for this than SMS? Using external SMS services critically depends on the Internet connection, but what to do if there is a need to receive notifications about Internet connection failure? USB GSM modems could solve this issue but their operation stability and often level of support are not the best. There are very few modems that can boast working 24/7 without external maintenance (manual checking, scripts or other means). In addition, it must be connected to a server or a PC for operation. In turn, this server or PC will work as an SMS gateway, which is not the simplest and not the most reliable scheme. A proper solution in this situation would be the use of NetPing SMS. It is a standalone device that is connected to the Ethernet network and working as an SMS gateway for any monitoring system, service, or any other system. In addition, it has no disadvantages described above because it works independently as it does not need an Internet connection and a computer for the operation, and the 24/7 operation is implied.

This article suggests that you have already installed and configured the OpenNMS monitoring system and it works correctly. A configuring process of Open NMS monitoring system has been described before.

Microclimate monitoring of a server room, conditioner rotation system and other beautiful words set neither us nor you from maintaining a basic order in a server room. There is a chance to be a perfectionist and put each cable close to another one, or it is possible to scatter totally unnecessary stuff all over the server room and forget what labeling is and let it be. In this article, it will be discussed what a server room should never look like. Here, you will not see any horror pictures in a server room, when braided wires come down from the walls and wrap crooked racks with an ugly net. The article will discuss a pretty regular server room in a pretty usual company.

Cacti is an open-source web application. The system allows building graphs using RRDtool. Cacti gathers statistical data for specific periods of time and allows representing them in a graphic view. Most often, standard templates are used to represent statistics on a processor load, memory allocation, number running processes, using incoming/outgoing traffic. Basically, Cacti is only a shell to visualize accumulated monitoring data, namely drawing graphs. In this article, we will regard a way of extending Cacti features for sending SMS notifications on monitoring events (SMS gateway for Cacti). To send SMS, it is possible to use the next devices of NetPing company:

• hardware gateway for sending and receiving SMS notifications NetPing SMS;
• device for monitoring microclimate of server rooms UniPing server solution v4/SMS;
• device for remote controlling of the power supply (IP power distribution unit) for server equipment NetPing 8/PWR-220 v4/SMS

This allows minimizing the expenses for third-party services of SMS distribution because in this case, the cost of each SMS will be equal to one specified in the plan of your mobile network operator with no additional commissions.