Interview with Pandora FMS employees about the global pandemic To be honest, I believe that it will take a lot of time to forget this. I don’t know if the 2020 pandemic of Covid-19 will be remembered exactly as grandparents remembered their wars or …
Check out a great Check Mk alternative: Pandora FMS Checkmk was created and developed by German Mr. Mathias Kettner, and since 2007 there is an open source version. In this article, we will get to know Checkmk Open Source, which contains 90% of all …
What Can Pandora FMS Offer as a Server Monitoring Tool? When your server goes down, it can certainly throw a wrench into your daily processes, costing you money and even causing you to lose customers until it’s back up and running again. Thankfully, Pandora …
What is a release and how to launch a new one each month What is a release? As many of you know, one stormy autumn night Pandora FMS team climbed to the most abrupt and outstanding peak of the surrounding area and swore, above …
PANDORA FMS 748 RELEASE These release notes describe new features, improvements and fixed issues in Pandora FMS NG 748. They also provide information about upgrades and describe some workarounds for known issues. New features and improvements Smart Services Pandora FMS service creation has been …
How a network operating system works and how to monitor it In the early days of telephony, there were few people who had phone numbers in every town and city. There were just a few numbers to remember and if your brain failed, you …
What cloud service types are there? In previous and great articles in here, we already talked about what Cloud is and the types that exist floating above our heads. But today, for a change, we want to focus more on one of its totally …
Interview with Sara Martín, HR at Pandora FMS, a software company “Human Resources”, what are “Human Resources”? Vegetal charcoal? A set of goods or means of subsistence? The ability to touch your nose with your tongue or move your ears on demand by just …
SNMP alerts: what they are and why you should configure them The SNMP world is becoming more and more important within the monitoring environment, as companies need to find software that has specialized tools for trap monitoring. If you are not familiar with the …
CIOs, CTOs and executives. What you need to know about IoT If you occupy positions of certain responsibility (such as CIO or CTO) and you do not know what is necessary about IoT, you run the risk of being out of the game. So …
There is room for art in a technology company like Pandora FMS Stephen King, employee in an industrial laundry, Franz Kafka, expert in industrial accidents, Bram Stoker, civil servant, Chuck Palahniuk, the one from the Fight Club, author of truck repairing manuals… Yes, great …
Pandora FMS as an alternative to Icinga 1.x, both open source Examine. Search. Browse. Icinga, in Zulu language. The origin of the names of many software are somewhat strange (or unknown). In fact, that would be enough material for a whole different article. This …
Smart business. What is it? Is yours? Defining what a smart business is can be as difficult as defining what a smart person is. For decades, we have known that there are different types of intelligence that can help us in different aspects of …
What is a “developer”? What do they mean for a company? “Developer”, “DE-VE-LO-PEEEERRR”… It sounds pretty good. It’s easy to make your parents buy it when you explain them they are going to pay for your degree and they will be able to boast …
Advanced network monitoring for big and small companies Pandora FMS has become well known as a reliable, flexible advanced network monitoring solution. It allows businesses of all sizes to monitor and manage network and hardware issues in real time, and integrates all of the …
The future of e-commerce: 5 ways to grow E-commerce is skyrocketing, there is no doubt whatsoever. With unstoppable annual growth and close to 2,000 million users worldwide, e-commerce has already been able to surpass traditional commerce in some product categories and takes an important …
PANDORA FMS 747 RELEASE These release notes describe new features, improvements and fixed issues in Pandora FMS NG 747. They also provide information about upgrades and describe some workarounds for known issues. NEW FEATURES AND DEVELOPMENTS Improved SNMP and WMI remote scan wizards SNMP …
Security monitoring as prevention and tool in computer security Security Information Monitoring or Security Event Monitoring is part of Security Information Management. Yes, I acknowledge they are flashy names and that even experts have their differences about concept and scope. Here in Pandora FMS, …
Digital maturity; find out what it is and if your company reached it Do you know what digital maturity is? Do you understand how achieving it can affect your company? Do you know how to detect if you already reached it? Knowing what digital …
The network discovery software that turned Pandora FMS upside down Previously, in Pandora FMS blog, we learnt a little about the great revolution that the Discovery feature brought to Pandora FMS. This tool reduces the complexity of certain existing features in Pandora FMS, and …
What is SIEM? The help that you need to keep your business safe SIEM (Security Information and Event Management) is a kind of software whose purpose is to provide organizations and corporations with useful information. “About what?” you may wonder. Well, about potential security …
Load spikes? We give you some tips to optimize MariaDB This 2020 is perfect to check our beloved Pandora FMS server and precisely a very important component is the database (BD). As our loyal readers already know (and if you visit us for the …
Hughes India and Pandora FMS joined together as partners Pandora FMS keeps making friends. We like to make them all over the world. With them, we learn and share the best we have. They in turn play their part, creating a smooth professional harmony …
WHAT’S NEW Pandora FMS 746 This release 746 includes a new graphical interface in the Enterprise Log Collection feature. We have also optimized the ISO and created a new plugin that supports Selenium 3. Remember to keep your Pandora FMS updated to avoid bugs …
Perfect telecommuting open tools to work from home «Every cloud has a silver lining». Popular sayings are wise and pragmatic. This year we added coronavirus and telecommuting to our daily vocabulary. Both words are compounds and the first one represents a danger that has …
Pandora FMS employees choose their favorite video games A long, long time ago, almost before Pandora FMS green color became part of the rainbow, a revolutionary idea came from the heart of the company: creating an arcade machine, like those of arcades, so that …
Abbreviations, acronyms … What is the programmer slang? Programmer slang is very particular, but it is by no means the exception and that is why in all specialties they have their own jargon. In this article, we will focus on showing its peculiarities. Let’s …
Blade and rack servers; advantages and disadvantages Choosing between blade servers or those intended to go installed in a rack is a small headache that is repeated daily in the complex minds of technicians around the world. What configuration to choose? What can best …
Why using Remote Checks is vital for any company One of the biggest impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic has been the number of employees asked or required to work from home. Whilst the capability to work completely remotely has been available for many years …
IT success; 6 important issues for an CIO or CTO The work of the people who occupy senior positions in the IT areas is not simple; on the contrary, it has become more and more complex. Over the years, IT has become more deeply …
Centralize Monitoring: The Importance of the Metaconsole Gradually, brick by brick, we will get the necessary toolkit to build a company and maintain it. If on previous occasions we have emphasized the importance of monitoring a company’s IT systems, today we will review what …
WHAT’S NEW Pandora FMS 745 If we had to give a name to this release, we would definitely call it WUX 3.0, or the Great User Experience Monitoring Development, with visual enhancements but particularly with the session recorder replacement, which now supports the latest …
The big plugins contest, a challenge launched by Pandora FMS There is nothing more rewarding than a creation of your own. Therefore, in these times, we propose you something, the biggest reward for a lover of technology: the creation of a plugin for Pandora …
Server operating system: a basic and fundamental piece of software Web server. File server. Email server… In this post we could review most of the servers we use every day; this world is highly interconnected on a global scale. I write these lines from …
How to choose servers for your company You’ve been thinking all morning. You keep wondering how to choose servers for your company. All right, think the answer will be almost always: What do you need them for? And the choice of servers will depend …
What is Podman? What is Podman? Well, we will start by saying that Podman is a container engine developed by RedHat, and yes, if you thought about Docker when reading container engine, you are on the right track. Podman wants to be the alternative …
