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 …
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 …
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 …
Temperature Monitoring: Pandora FMS’s new superpower One of the great pleasures of life, next to sunbathing parallel to a swimming pool, walking along the beach at sunset or eating chocolate in all its aspects, is the fact that we can relate, in this blog, …
Ártica ST changes its logo and moves to Pandora FMS’s green Who hasn’t ever needed a change of style? I’m not talking about bell-bottoms or Rosalia’s fake nails because it’s the latest trend. I’m talking about a facelift to feel handsome and OK. That’s …
Network Types: Are you sure you know them all, every single one? If you thought the fishmonger’s hair net was the only kind of net you’re wrong. From Pandora FMS we will show you some more, so that you do not get lost without …
Toshiba’s success story thanks to Pandora FMS software Pandora FMS and Toshiba met each other on a cold winter morning, they exchanged looks and… This would be a great start to a love story, wouldn’t it? However, the relationship between Pandora FMS and Toshiba …
Virtual assistants: what they are and how they help us Alexa, Siri, Cortana, Aura, Bixby, Irene and Sara. What do all of these names have in common, other than sounding like women? Are they a collection of scientists and artists who were only called …
Perl 2020: a failure and an unexpected update of Pandora FMS Just when we thought we had got ridden of Y2K, we came across an unexpected effect. The 2020 effect. Buried deep in the system, a basic Perl library has made any date comparison …
Pandora FMS as an excellent Splunk alternative: let’s review both! The American magazine “Fortune” specializes in global banking, business and finance… What does it have to do with monitoring? Well, in one of its annual lists, the Fortune 100 (the largest companies on the …
As mentioned in the last release 740, even updates will focus on fixing bugs and odd ones on developing new features and improvements that help all users. In this release 741, a new Discovery integration has been added to monitor SAP centrally and remotely, …
Best backup applications to stay on the safe side Surely you know what a backup is, right? It is what we could also call a “safety copy“. Free backups are precisely that, softwares through which you can create backup copies of your data, to …
Congratulations Pandora FMS, 14 years of stories and monitoring 14 years old, our beloved monitoring software is already 14 years old! Pandora FMS enters adolescence and does it with more friends than acne, with more achievements than voice changes and with more future ideas …
Hard disk types: Get to know the main ones! Do you need to buy hard disks? All right, we all have needs in life. Are you clear about what you need them for? Great, that’s where it starts. Don’t you have a clear choice …
Network baseline and the challenges imposed by new technologies The issue of network baseline arose quite some time ago. Everything started from the understanding that networks are not static entities, but are a set of elements that change over time. It was also understood …
Business software. Do you have everything you need? Where are you going with those scrolls? And that sack of seeds for carrier pigeons? What? You say you need them to get your company’s marketing to your customers? Didn’t you think you might be getting …
In this 740 release, the top priority has been solving certain software failures. From now on, even releases are intended to solve bugs and improve the existing features, whereas odd ones focus on extending the feature range, with the purpose of increasingly refining Pandora …
A computer post-mortem incident contains very important lessons! In particular, I liked very much the article that our colleague Sara Martin wrote in Pandora FMS blog about crisis management in information technology, these are the steps: To know how to apologize. To disseminate the …
Hybrid Cloud Monitoring: Things to keep in mind When we are faced with the challenge of hybrid cloud monitoring, the golden dream of a single monitoring platform is reawakened in us. It would be ideal to have a tool that would allow us to …
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 …
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 …