Web browser security: Learn How the Most Popular Browsers Operate If there is still a reason why you have a post-it covering the webcam of your laptop, if you have not yet had the audacity to delve into the deep web despite all the …
Experience the new RHEL with CentOS 8 and CentOS 8 Stream It has taken much longer than usual for the CentOS team to provide us with a new version of their operating system; however, the wait is over. The new CentOS 8 is here. …
Fixed Disk Usage should be monitored from a quantitative point of view I remember with some nostalgia the five-and-a-quarter-inch floppy disks, and then the more robust three-and-a-half-inch floppy disks. I shouldn’t even write the word rigid anymore, but you’ve got me: it’s for younger …
File Transfer Protocol or FTP. Shall we start? Our day to day is a constant investigation. When you were little, very small, you discovered the different names of the colors or the taste of the fruits; then, the pain of acne and your favorite …
What is RAID? What types of RAID are out there? What is raid? Do you want to find out? The term RAID is related mostly to those components of our computers that allow us to store information and get our computer up and running …
In this release 739 several integrations have been carried out, ranging from RedisDB monitoring, integration with OTRS or interconnectivity between Pandora FMS and Integria IMS, one of the products of Pandora FMS suite. In addition, the HA environment has been improved with new features. …
Pandora FMS interview in App of the day Last week our CEO, Sancho Lerena, was interviewed in App of the day, a site that is part of Downloadastro.com, one of the largest download sites in the world, with millions of monthly users. In the …
PowerShell 101: an alternative to command line on Linux and Mac The Command Line Interface (CLI) in Windows® exists and resists the passage of time, from those distant days of MS-DOS® to the current PowerShell 101. Let’s see the basic PowerShell. When I went …
Do you know these tech magazines? Let’s have a look It’s possible that your cravings for knowledge go farther than the best issues of National Geographic. You need to satisfy your most practical and technological side and you no longer know which friend in …
BGP Protocol: Relevance, Basic Concepts and Monitoring The BGP protocol has become a fundamental part of the operation and performance of the Internet. Therefore, it is obvious that we should undertake the BGP monitoring process when monitoring applications or those services that are offered …
In this release 738, mass alerts have been incorporated into policies to make their creation process easier. In addition, different visual consoles have been added in this update, which will appear by default and can be customized according to the user’s needs. Several bugs …
What is a patch? the perfect tool for mending programs If anyone asks: what is a patch? we have to abandon the semantic field of piracy and go to serious and technical things, so to speak. What is a patch? Until a little while …
Docker Bench for security with Pandora FMS Although the main purpose of Pandora FMS is to monitor: its flexibility allows us to extend it as far as we need it. That’s why we now bring you Security with Docker Bench and suggest some ideas …
Modular Encryption Is Here! A Step Beyond Blockchain We shall remind ourselves of what we know as Blockchain because, in a certain way, Modular Encryption and Blockchain are closely related. What is Blockchain? Let’s try to explain what Blockchain is with one of Blockchain’s …
What is edge computing? Why will we need it in the future? What is edge computing? Do you really want to know? The story of edge computing reminds us how things used to be and how they will be in the future, similar but …
Pandora FMS 737 release includes a brand new feature: automated software agent deployment from the console. In addition, the Discovery feature is still being developed, incorporating a new Cloud plugin for Azure. A new SLA reporting feature has also been added with Failover modules …
Network emulation: the problem of configuration factors The Network Emulation is a relevant technology when making tests related to the behaviour of our platform. Let’s look at these situations: We have developed a new application and wondered how it will behave when we put …
Free SQL Software Tools Our databases are the ones that keep the Internet alive. There has even been talk for some years about the development of operating systems with which users do not have direct contact with the files, but their personal files are …
TCP Congestion Control: basic outline and TCP CUBIC algorithm TCP congestion control is a fundamental part of this protocol and over the years has undergone a process of constant improvement through the generation of different versions, such as TCP Tahoe, Reno, Vegas, and so …
Server types; Let’s have a look at some of them and their functions How many server types are out there? The answer to this question, like so many others, is: “It depends”. Since there can be as many types of server as a company …
In Pandora FMS release 736 we have been working on visual improvements of the interface, optimizing the view of events and services. NEW FEATURES AND IMPROVEMENTS AWS multitenant monitoring In the last releases, Discovery has acquired a great importance within the new Pandora FMS …
CIO and CTO Challenges; 7 Challenges for the Present and the Future The IT environment is always changing and some management positions, such as CIOs and CTOs are continually in the eye of the hurricane. The complexity of this type of job is no …
DevOps monitoring and its interrelationships In the 20th century we were programmers. In the 21st century, developers. With the massification of telecommunications worldwide, operators began to help us in our work. That’s where the term DevOps (“developers” and “operations”) arose, which implies the concept …
Types of cloud computing: Public, Private and Hybrid Clouds “To have your head in the clouds” has several meanings since Cloud computing arrived and is part of our vocabulary thanks to its efficiency. Therefore, today we will review not only what cloud computing is, …
OpenNMS vs Zabbix vs Pandora FMS. Here we go! Today we bring you a comparison: OpenNMS vs Zabbix vs Pandora FMS. Three titans of open-source software, without a doubt. We will see its main features and we will talk about the business model of …
In this new Pandora FMS update, improvements have been made in the visual consoles, SLA reports, WUX and the monthly cron jobs, among others. Pandora FMS improves every day to make the user console much more simple and user-friendly NEW FEATURES AND IMPROVEMENTS Visual …
Percona PMM alternative Pandora FMS On one previous occasion one of our colleagues published a good article on the Percona Server for this database. Percona is a company founded in 2006 by former MySQL employees, Peter Zaitsev and Vadim Tkachenko. Today we bring you …
Network security. What does this actually mean? Learn all about it Today, we live in a world in which, the use of new technology is greatly enhancing the ability to communicate with each other. The Internet has been globalized very fast and relationships are …
Network Management Protocols: A Guide to Understanding Them Understanding network management protocols can be an arduous task. It is easy to miss the technical term, the different procedures, the different ways of formatting the data, the multiple options, etc. To facilitate this task we …
Network traffic analysis as a foundation for monitoring Monitoring has always relied on both network administration and network traffic analysis. Both fields provide ways to obtain data that allows us to obtain information about the general state of the platform. It is easy to …
Nutanix VS VMware: choose wisely in this hyperconvergent duel Good stories are always told from the beginning and so this duel between Nutanix and VMware is no exception, we must start from the basic concepts behind these solutions. Convergence: the beginning of everything First …
What is the BIOS? What is the UEFI? In what ways are they different? What is the BIOS? Could you explain it? What about the UEFI? They are not the names of two comic brothers, but two softwares that coexist in our computers and …
What is SNMP monitoring? In the most general terms, network monitoring means the use of available communication protocols to collect information on the status of communication systems, whether they be routers, land line communications or cell phones. This article will talk about one of …
Colocation hosting; what it is and some aspects to take into account Does your company use servers? That wouldn’t be weird! However, there are different ways to have servers, depending on the needs and possibilities of each company. Own servers, dedicated servers, cloud … …
Savings with monitoring; how much does it mean for a company? Are you the type of person who wonders why things happen? When you were a child, did you look into the clouds when it rained and wonder what was the mechanism behind it? …
New package to update release Pandora FMS 734 The main new feature of this new 734 update package is the beginning of the restructuring of Pandora FMS visual consoles, making them more usable and quicker for the user; in addition, the work of improving …
