Below are described a list of features for Pandora FMS 3.1 version. Click on each feature name to get more information.
Pandora FMS Enterprise vs OpenSource edition features
Autodiscovery and network topology detector
Pandora FMS is able to scan and detect new non monitored systems periodically, detecting its OS and profile, based on TCP ports and assign them to an specific network monitoring template, depending on the network, OS or port profile. Recon server also detects the network topology and will try to "attach" to the more direct known parent to the new host.
Performance & Availability Monitoring
Pandora FMS provides a complete solution for performance & availabity, monitoring the key resources across the infrastructure, to ensure that all devices are ready to respond to end user requests.
It is possible to run these tests in the software agent or from Pandora FMS Server, which eliminates the risk associated with running monitoring software on target systems.
Pandora FMS specific tests and features include:
- Scheduled Availability Tests
- ICMP response and delay
- SNMP response
- Standard TCP/IP services (HTTP, SMTP, etc.)
- Specified TCP/IP ports with regular expression matching
- Windows service availability
- Windows process availability
- Linux/Unix process availability
- URL availability
- Nagios Plug-In Support (for both, availability and performance)
- Scheduled Performance Tests
- CPU Usage
- Disk Usage
- System overload
- Connections on a database
- Number of ocurrences in a logfile per second
- Temperature on a system
- Incoming network traffic
- Network latency
Fault & Event Management
Pandora FMS event system keeps a log of everything that has happened. When a service or a host goes down, or it comes up again, when an alert is fired, when new hosts are discovered at the network, etc...
It is possible to search events, filtering them by group, type, severity, or event status. All this is done from the Web Console.
Events can be exported to a CSV file, or be linked to feed readers, thanks to it RSS feed.
Visual console
Pandora FMS allows to each user to define their customized view of the monitoring, this is a customized-defined graph view, based on a representation in the space, selected items, represented status, data, graphs or other visual console status, scaling always the critical event.
Full featured multiplatform agents for Windows, HP-UX, Solaris, BSD, AIX and Linux
There are software Agents for Windows, Linux, AIX, HP-UX, Solaris, BSD and Mac: lite agents that provide information about the system where they are installed (CPU, memory usage, disc usage, the output of any command, ... ).
There are also hardware Agents to monitor temperature, humidity, smoke, Gas, flood and any device that send dry contact.
High Availability
Pandora FMS has multiple server based structure (Data Server, Plugin Server, Network Server, ...), a Web console and a Database. It has redundancy over all its items. Any amount of servers or consoles can be created, as well as a MySQL cluster for the Database.
Role-Based Access Control Levels
Pandora FMS has an user role and a permission system, that allows to define new users with different permissions over the different monitoring groups. This way, an user could be administrator of the Accounting System, having only permissions to see the events of the Human Recourses group.
SNMP Monitoring
Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) is a UDP-based network protocol. It is used mostly in network management systems to monitor network-attached devices for conditions that warrant administrators attention.
Pandora FMS can monitor any device with SNMP protocol directly from the Pandora FMS Network Server
WMI Monitoring
Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) (or Windows Management Interface[1]) is a set of extensions for the Windows Driver Model that provides an operating system interface through which the instrumented components provide information and notification. Pandora.
Pandora FMS can monitor any Windows System SNMP protocol directly from the Pandora FMS WMI Server or using the WMI module in Windows Agent.
SNMP Trap monitoring
Pandora FMS has a Trap Console that shows the SNMP events that have been received by Pandora FMS server, showing the following information about the event: its status, the OID source and the associated Agent, the date, if it has any associated alert, and the action to take on the event. From the same Console, alerts could be assigned in order to receive traps.
Pandora FMS 3.1 Enterprise SNMP traps console has the following features:
- MIBs loader for traps definition
- Traps alias created by the user
SLA & Reporting
Pandora FMS can create HTML reports for any monitored element. Data, such as graphs, SLAs, metrics, events, ... can be added to these reports. Reports are created for a configurable time frame, that goes from an hour up to six months.
With Pandora FMS 3.1 Enterprise, it is possible to create PDF reports and send them to an email address at the specified day. And,what is more, the reports could be recurrents and could be sent every week, month, six months, etc.
ITIL v3 Metrics
Now, it's possible to add the items MTBF, MTTR, TTO y TTRT of any monitored event in the reports.
Alert Correlation
Pandora FMS allows to configure alerts correlating, with logical operators, the data obtained through more than a module or monitor, being these modules from the same agent or from different agents.
Transactional advanced WEB Monitoring
By the network server + Goliath integration, PandoraFMS Enterprise is able to monitor web based applications, doing, for instance, availability, total navigation time, and doing complex webchecks such as authentication, filling forms, content changes etc. All done, as usually, in a centralized interface, Pandora FMS web one.
Multiple Site Setup Scaling
The Export Server provides the data escalation feature, making possible to have a completely distributed installation at the same building, office, or even different countries. The different Pandora FMS installations will connect to to a Central Pandora FMS, which will collect and centralize the information.
Remote Inventory or with Agent
A new system and service inventory which will act as a system inventory, showing software and hardware in the monitored systems. It is possible to choose whether agent-less or agent-based configuration to get that data.
Remote agent management
With Pandora FMS 3.1 Enterprise version you can modify from the Web Console the configuration of any Agent installed. This allows to add or remove modules from the agent, change the IP address of Pandora FMS server, the interval, the connection port, and any other configuration option of the Agent.
Centralized Management using monitoring policies
This feature is basically for organizations with lots of agents. These new policies included in the 3.1 version allows the user to distribute modules and alerts to agent groups
Automatic updates with Open Update Manager
The Export Server provides the data escalation feature, doing possible to have a completely distributed installation at the same building, office, or even different countries. The different Pandora FMS installations will connect to to a Central Pandora FMS, which will collect and centralize the information.
Geolocation (GIS)
With version 3.1., Pandora FMS start providing location information and interactive maps that will show the agent's location.
Service Monitoring
Allows to monitor groups of elements (services) based on weights, in a much more flexible way and with user-defined margins
API SOA and CLI
AN API SOA and one CLI has been added in order to interactuate withe the Pandora FMS database from the command line or from the Web services.
Report Advanced Properties
The possibility of changing the report's logo and adding title page, foot page and index in the reports. Se ha añadido la posibilidad de cambiar el logo de los informes y añadir Portada, pie de pagina e Indice en los informes.
Fine Grain ACL System
The possibility of configuring through ACLs the Operation and Administration sections from the menu that could be seen by the user.
Metaconsole
Pandora FMS has the Metaconsole feature that is a Web environment that works as a manager of independent installations from Pandora FMS, to coordinate them in server farms with only one management. This allows Pandora FMS to get almost an unlimited scalability
Dashboard
Pandora FMS 3.1 has a new main page, called Dashboard. Our dashboard is based on "pieces" of custom-defined information called widgets, and is totally customizable with different screens and frames. Each dashboard will contain different widgets such as reports, graphs, maps, metrics etc. Each user can define its own dashboard.
History database
A secondary database for store long-term data, not used in daily operations or reporting. This allows Pandora FMS to store huge amounts of data, isolating production realtime data from historic non very often used data, allowing Pandora FMS to manage more information.
3rd Party Product Integration API Library
Pandora FMS external API is used doing remote calls (through HTTP on the file /include/api.php). This is the method that has been defined in Pandora FMS to integrate applications from third parts with Pandora FMS. It basically consist on a call with the parameters formated to receive a value or a list of values that after its application it will use to do operations.
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