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What is actually a hacker?

If we lived in a fair and more appealing world, children would not want to be Cristiano Ronaldo or PewDiePie (popular Swedish youtuber that if you have a certain age, or dignity, you won’t know about). Children would like to be someone with values, like Immanuel Kant, She-Ra or, of course, a high-level hacker who, from the sewers of a suburban pavilion, controls the world with his killer laptop and his hoodie.

What is, how to install WSL2 and why is it great news for the IT industry?

Before diving into what WSL2 is, how to install it, and how to use it – which we will – I would like to add some background information you might relate to if you were born in the 80s like me. From a very young age I have felt attracted to computers, and in my childhood they were not as common as they are today, when almost everyone has one within reach. I think my first encounter with a computer was when I was 11 or 12 years old, with an old computer that my father had in his office.

What is Packet Loss & How Can it Affect Your Network?

At Pandora FMS, we know that even the most minor of network issues can quickly throw a wrench in your company’s daily operations. One of the most common network issues many experience is known as packet loss. Here, our team of network monitoring experts goes into detail about what packet loss is, as well as how to measure it and resolve it when necessary, so read on!

Black Friday is here! Would you like your eCommerce to survive it? Monitor it!

If you are reading this article, we assume it is because you have an eCommerce, a digital business you have put all your effort in (and all your money). Or maybe you’re a service provider offering services to eCommerce clients. Black Friday is coming! The official day of going crazy shopping and consuming, when Christmas shopping season is inaugurated and many retail stores and department stores take the chance to celebrate a day of sales that consumers have engraved on their shopping calendar.

Pandora FMS port monitoring

The ancient Roman Empire used to call what is now the Mediterranean Sea as Mare Nostrum (Nostrum Mare), stating what is now the port city of Barcelona as the entry point to Hispania (today the Iberian Peninsula) from the city of Miseno, located in the south of what is now Italy. For ancient Romans, port monitoring was crucial, and for us now too. “How?” you may wonder. Let’s see! Roman trireme model https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Trireme_1.jpg.

10 Reasons Network Monitor Software is a Must

Ever since the 1980s, network monitoring systems have been in place for companies that rely on computer networks to perform their daily operations. Since their implementation, they’ve undergone drastic changes and now, provide IT teams with incredible tools to ensure best practices for everything from servers to application performance.

Monitoring and fashion: we are also trend experts

Not that system monitoring has much to do with NY Fashion Week or the most avant-garde venues in London’s Soho, but they share the yearning for something new, something fruitful and original. And since we are also some kind of modern hipsters obsessed with everything cool and trendy, today we will try to review some of those new trends in monitoring, the most recent news that affect our field.

The best complement for an IoT solution using a Raspberry Pi

Pandora FMS is a proactive, advanced, flexible and easy-to-configure monitoring tool according to each business. It gets integrated into all the needs of servers, network computers, terminals and whatever needs to be monitored. In this article, we will focus on monitoring openHAB (Smart Home Solution), using the software agent installed on our Raspberry Pi (this article applies to both Pandora FMS Community and Enterprise versions).

What Does Application Performance Monitoring (APM) Involve?

Nowadays, regardless of what type of business you run, you probably rely on a number of applications to make it through the day. Applications are key components of many computer networks, meaning it’s important that they function properly and don’t crash or lag. For this reason, many companies invest in application performance monitoring to prevent costly application issues and downtime.

Network traffic analysis tools for 2020

Galaxy: Milky Way. Planet: Earth, Solar System. Date: Year of the Rat, number 4718 from Huangdi, the Yellow Emperor. Spaceship: Pandora FMS Enterprise. Voyager 2 spaceship reports that its older twin sister is 20 hours, 46 minutes, and 19 seconds away from the blue planet at light speed. Radio waves travel almost at that speed, and although its plutonium reserve is depleted and the electronic components are almost frozen, despite all that, we receive signals from them.