What is an SLA? A Service Level Agreement (SLA) is a document that details the expected level of service guaranteed by a vendor or product. This document generally sets out metrics such as uptime expectations and any payoffs if these levels are not met. For...
SaaS vs onPremise, do you use the cloud? Do you use the cloud? Be aware that we're not saying that you are in cloud nine, but that you may most likely be using the cloud. That is, if you use Google mail, Microsoft Office 365 office suite or you take a photo with...
Introduction Do an exercise, ask five IT technicians -of any profile- what SNMP means.. If you’re close with them the better, so that the first thing they do is not go to Wikipedia to boast. Hopefully, they might tell you what they said to me when I was working in...
Pandora FMS started as a totally personal open source project back in 2004. I wasn't even a professional programmer, I was doing Unix security consulting. In fact, I chose PHP but Pandora FMS was my first application with PHP, I knew some things about ASP and my...
Monitoring and security; more than a technology, a philosophy Confidentiality, integrity and availability are the three basic laws of security. Availability is a kind of wayward son who becomes prodigal when he likes to, even if it is just to write eulogies with it...
We live in an uncertain world and monitoring should try to make sure that whatever happens we will always be informed. Therefore, security is the basis of everything in monitoring and for us it has always been one of the pillars of our strategy as a product....
What are logs for and some of the main log types What are logs? In computing, when generally speaking of "log", we refer to information belonging to a more or less low level reported by the operating system or a specific application that helps identify what is...
Introduction to Nagios XI and Centreon Centreon is a solution for monitoring applications, systems and networks, based on Nagios source code. On 1st August, 2005 the company Merethis (now Centreon) was founded and began working on "their" Nagios version, calling it...
Robot bees: Will they be our best and only alternative? The bees are dying. It's no joke, neither should you take it as such. Nobody truly knows why, but the facts are that the number of bees is decreasing on a global scale, and it's an increasing phenomenon. But,...
Programming skills: 10 useful skills to improve your ability. Are you a programmer or are you thinking about learning how to code? You might already know that is not an easy task. Can anyone be a programmer? We could say that, with enough effort, yes. But knowing...
