Pandora FMS 2020-2021 Roadmap Some of the most common questions we face daily are related to our future plans or the roadmap of Pandora FMS. Thanks to our customers and users, we know you expect us to integrate increasingly more features into the Pandora …
Easy monitoring with Pandora FMS Discovery feature Throughout Pandora FMS’s history, constant improvements and functionalities have been introduced that have made Pandora FMS an advanced monitoring tool. At the same time, the more advanced the tool, the more complex its administration and configuration becomes. …
Pandora FMS as a Netcool Alternative Introduction to IBM® Tivoli® Netcool® IBM® Tivoli® Netcool ®is part of the “Tivoli Management Framework (TMF)”, and both belong to the wide range of products from the company known as “International Business Machines” or simply IBM®, as we …
Serverless: An introduction and new challenges for monitoring Among other terms under the umbrella concept of cloud computing, we can find the Serverless technology which we have witnessed its growing popularity in the last three years. In principle, the cloud computing concept covers three …
Monitoring Citrix XenServer now is easy with Pandora FMS Introduction A serious drawback to webmasters involved in server monitoring is that when they want to find updated versions of monitoring tools, they usually encounter a whole series of contents that are sometimes very outdated. …
Good news! As our readers already know, our company Ártica ST, manufacturer of Pandora FMS among other solutions, is one of the few Spanish companies that develops its own software. In addition, in recent years, we have experienced a remarkable growth, which in this …
In a world where technology is a means to an end, monitoring isn’t only checking availability, pinging, and performance; not everything is servers, databases and command lines…there’s another kind of monitoring. It’s subtle, but potent; service monitoring. Definition What is a service, in this …
Finding a tool which allows you to monitor business processes in real time isn’t easy, and because of this we’ll talk about those Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) tools that allow managers to monitor the status of their business processes and the global business, all …
For some companies it can be difficult to put a monetary value on a monitoring service, especially if that company has never experienced a serious network or system failure. In the balance between cold, hard cash and a bunch of hypothetical variables which …
HP OpenView overview HP OpenView is not one product but a range of over 50 software products dedicated to administrative problem-solving in IT departments. It isn’t a single piece of software but a whole suite of different tools to handle the administration of system-performance …
Everyone’s heard of Nagios, or at least they should have. A network monitoring tool with thousands of worldwide users, who’ve been using it for the last 15 years? What’s the problem? We’re not saying Nagios doesn’t have its uses, but, given that it’s in …
We believe we have one of the most powerful open source monitoring software on the market. For this reason, there are more and more users are installing and using our free, open source version. Here we will show you the main differences between Pandora …
Who are these guys wearing the awesome Pandora FMS t-shirts?? They are Miro, Simon and Roman, 3 nice guys that belong to a student organization of the University of Zilina in Slovakia. Their main goal is to develop data network and provide Internet for students. …
Do you want to get the best performance of your Pandora FMS? It’s easy. Pandora FMS is a very intuitive and user friendly tool, but also it has so many features that make the path a little bit difficult for someone that hasn’t previous …
Con el objetivo de mejorar la usabilidad y la experiencia de usuario en la consola de Pandora FMS, se han añadido diversos mensajes de ayuda de clippy que recomiendan fijar unos valores determinados para optimizar el funcionamiento de los procesos, y que además, advierten …
With the objective of improving the usability, we have added a small upgrade in the Visual Map view of the Pandora FMS Console. This new feature consists in adding a checkbox that allows us to delete quickly more than one item of the list in a …
Una vez que una organización invierte en una infraestructura heredada de los 4 grandes BMC, CA, HP, e IBM, generalmente pasan años intentando implementar adecuadamente dicha solución, y resulta muy complicado liberarse de esta gran inversión de tiempo y dinero, incluso cuando ni siquiera está …
Our company Ártica ST, the one who develops Pandora FMS and other pretty interesting softwares, is looking for Developers and Sysadmins to join our team and start working in improving Pandora FMS, if possible :P. We describe below the details of the job offers …
Probablemente, algunos de vosotros ya habréis visto en publicaciones impresas, digitales y en banners, alguna de las piezas de la última campaña publicitaria desarrollada por el Departamento de Comunicación y Diseño de Pandora FMS. Como estamos muy orgullosos del trabajo que nuestros compañeros han …
This week we have the honor to receive a visit from a delegation of Estonia in our headquarters in Madrid. Estonia is a small country of around 1.3 million population, located in the east of Europe and characterized for having a great technical skills …
Why an octopus? I choose the octopus for two reasons: a) We need a logo based on an animal, due the opensource nature of the project. b) There is nothing more flexible than a octopus, and the F of FMS is “Flexible”: It can …
Counting the days for the release of Pandora FMS 5.0? Here’s a sneak peek just a few days before the version 5.0 is available. Pandora FMS 5.0 RC2 has just arrived with many bugs fixed and all the potential of the 5.0 version so you can enjoy the …
If you are a Chinese or a Russian native speaker with an excellent command in English and you wish to make some extra money, we have a job offer for you. You can work from home and you set the rhythm. All you have to …
As previously announced, our contest THE PHRASE ended last night. We deeply appreciate your participation and feedback. We are currently working to select the most appropriate phrase so we can announce our winner by this friday, September, 13. Meanwhile, we encourage you to try …
We have accomplished our mission: we have explained in less than three minutes the main features of Pandora FMS Enterprise and here’s the result: Enjoy the Enterprise features and keep in mind that you can request a trial version to evaluate Pandora FMS Enterprise …
“Open Source Conference 2013 Tokyo/Spring” will be held in February 22nd and 23rd. That is an event for developers, users and sponsors(companies) engaged in open source communities in Tokyo, Japan. Japanese developers including me will be there. Pandora FMS seminar (presenter: Koichiro Kikuchi) and …
Sourceforge published in their blog an article that related the interview of Rich Bowen to Sancho Lerena, the Pandora FMS creator and team leader. In the interview they talked, among other things, about topics like: The Pandora FMS origin and future How works the …
After two months of program I can tell participating in GSOC is such an interesting experience. It was my first time as a mentor and I think this program is a very good opportunity to exchange points of view and find out new ways …
We have created a new plugin that gets from Bloomberg website the 10 year Spread of several European countries like Spain, Greece, Italy, Portugal…Then we have create a special visual map to it: You can view the real time public map HERE
This is an historic moment. Japan Developers, Koichiro Kikuchi and Hirofumi Kosaka, leaded by Junichi Satoh, receive a visit in R-Works of Sancho Lerena and Darío Rodriguez. We have discuss for three days about the future of Pandora FMS, new features, new ideas, new …
It’s exciting to work with new guys at the project, and the first time we coordinate something like this using IRC. Here are the meeting topics for this first meeting: [18:08] <slerena> so, this is our first meeting ! :) [18:09] <slerena> I think …
It’s a please for me announce our first audiovisual commercial for Pandora FMS :) Has been produced by the Artica Team, see credits below. Main actress: Elena Vallejo Luengo. Main actor: Gorka Unzueta. Director: Sergio Martin Zarzuelo – [email protected] Photography: Daniel Calle Haut Script: …
Our friends from Japan has made a superb work translating the console, help files and the website on native Japanese. Thanks to Junichi and his team, Japanese one of the main languages supported in Pandora FMS, together english and spanish.
Several users reported that they want a more “flexible” ACL system, based not on groups of “things they can do”, based on every page a profile could see (and operate), item by item, page by page. Current ACL model is based on “unix style” …
This normally would not be a post for this blog, but it’s our first “BIG” plugin, and now it’ s officially backup by SAP (after a formal audit). I hope in the future more powerful plugins will be made by other companies and independent …
Our team has developed a new website for exchange all kind of information about Pandora FMS: articles, modules, agent modules, server and agent plugins, WMI queryes, and other stuff, like image backgrounds for the visual console, etc. This site has been build over our …
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