Pandora FMS

Madrid, Spain
2012
  |  By Olivia Díaz
Talking about too many cybersecurity alerts is not talking about the story of Peter and the Wolf and how people end up ignoring false warnings, but about its great impact on security strategies and, above all, on the stress it causes to IT teams, which we know are increasingly reduced and must fulfill multiple tasks in their day to day.
  |  By Ahinóam Rodríguez
Today, many companies generate and store huge amounts of data. To give you an idea, decades ago, the size of the Internet was measured in Terabytes (TB) and now it is measured in Zettabytes (ZB). Relational databases were designed to meet the storage and information management needs of the time. Today we have a new scenario where social networks, IoT devices and Edge Computing generate millions of unstructured and highly variable data.
  |  By Dimas Pardo
Today, digital trust is required inside and outside the organization, so tools must be implemented, with cybersecurity methods and best practices in each layer of your systems and their infrastructure: applications, operating systems, users, both on-premise and in the cloud. This is what we call System Hardening an essential practice that lays the foundation for a safe IT infrastructure.
  |  By Olivia Díaz
From the computer, we increasingly perform different tasks simultaneously (listening to music while writing a report, receiving files by email and downloading videos), which involve executing commands, and sending and receiving data. Over time, computer performance can suffer if CPU usage is not optimized. But what is a CPU?
  |  By Olivia Díaz
Collectd is a daemon (i.e. running in the background on computers and devices) that periodically collects metrics from different sources such as operating systems, applications, log files, and external devices, providing mechanisms to store values in different ways (e.g. RRD files) or makes it available over the network. With this data and its statistics you may monitor systems, find performance bottlenecks (by performance analysis) and predict system load (capacity planning).
  |  By Ahinóam Rodríguez
Until recently, the default model for application development was SQL. However, in recent years NoSQL has become a popular alternative. The wide variety of data that is stored today and the workload that servers must support force developers to consider other more flexible and scalable options. NoSQL databases provide agile development and ease of adapting to changes. Even so, they cannot be considered as a replacement for SQL nor are they the most successful choice for all types of projects.
  |  By Pandora FMS team
Interview with Alexander Twaradze, Pandora FMS representative in CIS countries. See original here.
  |  By Olivia Díaz
Distributed systems allow projects to be implemented more efficiently and at a lower cost, but require complex processing due to the fact that several nodes are used to process one or more tasks with greater performance in different network sites. To understand this complexity, let’s first look at its fundamentals.
  |  By Olivia Díaz
To address this issue, first understand that, in the digitization we are experiencing, there are multiple resources and devices that coexist in the same network and that require a set of rules, formats, policies and standards to be able to recognize each other, exchange data and, if possible, identify if there is a problem to communicate, regardless of the difference in design, hardware or infrastructure, using the same language to send and receive information.
  |  By Olivia Díaz
To understand what a Root Cause Analysis (RCA) is, we must start from the fact that a root cause is a factor that causes a non-conformance and must be deleted through process improvement. The root cause is the central issue and the highest-level cause that sets in motion the entire cause-and-effect reaction that ultimately leads to the problem.
  |  By Pandora FMS
Databases are a critical component of our systems and their malfunction can affect business productivity. Therefore, we must make sure that they are working correctly. PandoraFMS has a plugin that allows the remote monitoring of MySQL databases through a Discovery task, by means of this task we can obtain information about the performance and status of the database, such as the number of connections, the availability of the database, the number of queries that are being made, buffer status and cache status, among other types of information.
  |  By Pandora FMS
Proxmox is an open source server virtualization environment. With this plugin, and by using the API, we will be able to extract data about nodes, backups, virtual machines and existing lxc containers, as well as information related to the system storage. In this video we see how the plugin works at a manual execution level in the terminal and how to register and use it in our PandoraFMS console.
  |  By Pandora FMS
Network maps are very useful to have a graphical representation of the networks to monitor and their components, supervising at all times the irregularities that may arise, and that may compromise the operation of our services and business productivity. In this video you will learn how to create network maps and how to manage them.
  |  By 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.
  |  By Pandora FMS
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.
  |  By Pandora FMS
Backup copies are an almost mandatory prevention method in any environment in order to have the most critical elements secured against possible damages or loss of information. For this reason, today we bring you this video where we are going to see how to make security copies of the main elements of Pandora FMS and how to recover them in a very simple way.
  |  By Pandora FMS
Are you new to Pandora FMS and don't know how to make your enviroment work? Then check this video and start monitoring like a pro!
  |  By Pandora FMS
Software agents are the perfect tool to monitor any type of metric or data from our servers or computers in general. In this video we are going to see how to install this tool in Windows systems, manually and unattended.
  |  By Pandora FMS
In Pandora FMS we have several ways to install a satellite server. This time we are going to see how we can install this server automatically with the online installation script, available for Rocky Linux 8.x, AlmaLinux 8.x and RHEL 8.x operating systems.
  |  By Pandora FMS
With the launch of the new interface of the 770 version of our console, we also added a series of widgets ready to be used in our Dashboards. In this video we will learn how to create them and how they work.

A single monitoring solution to control your business. With just one tool, you can monitor any device, infrastructure, application, service and business process.

Pandora FMS is a monitoring software for IT infrastructure management which includes network equipment, Windows and Unix servers, virtual infrastructure and all different kind of applications. It has a large amount of features, making it a new generation software which discovers all the monitoring issues that an organization may need.

Main features:

  • Network monitoring
  • WMI monitoring
  • Agent monitoring (for all OS)
  • Graphical reporting, based on it's own SQL backend
  • SLA, and ITIL KPI metrics on reporting
  • Status & Performance monitoring
  • GIS tracking and viewing
  • Inventory management (Local and remote)
  • User defined visual console screens and Dashboards WYSIWYG
  • Very high capacity (Thousands of devices)
  • Multiuser, several levels of ACL management.

Pandora FMS exists as a full-powered Community edition with forum-based community support as well as an Enterprise edition which includes professional support and access to new versions.