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August 2023

ITSM and monitoring: A match made in IT heaven

It has been a veeeeery long time since we discussed a technical concept from an ingenious allegory. Many people send us emails asking us why, and we have to admit that… it’s true, everything is quite more fun with fantastic allegories. So be it then! At the request of our fans. Let’s talk today about ITSM and Monitoring Support through an invented event from which we can then draw a technical lesson.

New API authentication Pandora FMS

Pandora FMS external API is used to integrate third party applications with Pandora FMS and now we will be able to authenticate against it using the Bearen Token. It is a type of identification through HTTP headers that allows that each registered user in our Pandora FMS server can generate its own identifier of unique correspondence to make calls to the same API. In today's video we are going to show you how to generate these identifiers of the users of our server and how to make calls to the API with this identifier.

More modern monitoring: how telemetry and machine learning revolutionize system monitoring

It’s time, take your things and let’s move on to more modern monitoring. Relax, I know how difficult the changes are for you, but if you were able to accept the arrival of DTT and the euro, you sure got this! But first let us do a little review: Traditional system monitoring solutions rely on polling different meters, such as the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP), to retrieve data and react to it.

Install Pandora FMS with our online installation tool

Hello again, Pandoraphiles! Today on our beloved blog we want to introduce you to a video. You know that from time to time we do just that, don’t you? Bringing back some video from our channel, the nicest and most relevant one, no question, and break it down a little bit in writing. All of that so that you may have the book and the audiobook, so to speak.

A glimpse into the day-to-day life of a software monitoring expert

Working in the field of software monitoring may seem boring or too technical, but let me tell you that there is more fun and excitement than one might imagine at first. Not that we’re all day doing barbecues and celebrating, but once we almost did our very own Olympics in the office! Kind of like The Office, you know. *Long live Michael Scott. Anyway, join me on this journey for a day in the life of a software monitoring expert, where code lines mingle with laughter and soluble coffee.

Stopping Agents and modules during a time interval

Learn how to create planned stops. Imagine that we are monitoring our resources, and we have to do a maintenance of an equipment that is being monitored, that equipment, or some of its services, will stop being operative and false alerts and events will be generated. To avoid this, there are the planned stops, a PandoraFMS system that allows us to deactivate the agents and modules that we select during a time interval, this way we will avoid receiving false alerts and events.