GNU Linux commands essential to carry out a hardware inventory In the beginning we, as Humanity, created computers. We said “let it be electricity” and it was the light on our ballistic trajectory calculations. We saw the numbers matched and they were good. And …
All Pandora FMS tasks rely –or have to do- with port monitoring. The ancient Roman Empire used to call what is now the Mediterranean Sea as Mare Nostrum (Nostrum Mare), stating what is now the port city of Barcelona as the entry point to …
Why server performance monitoring is important and how to do it Servers are an essential part of the IT of many companies. A server down could cause significant damage: from service stopping and productivity decreasing to losing direct sales and image problems that cause …
Virtual server monitoring: key points to keep in mind It is undeniable that today we really live in cloud… of virtual servers. It is so because the vast majority of services and applications “rely” on them: any survey shows, outright, that users use them …
Windows Server Monitoring Pandora FMS is a proactive, advanced, flexible and easy-to-configure monitoring tool tailored to business itself. It adapts to all needs both in servers, network computers, devices and whatever is necessary. In this article, we will focus on Windows Server monitoring, using …
Docker, Kubernetes and Helm to be monitored with Prometheus and Grafana Helm was born during the Pycon conference in 2013. Well, it wasn’t exactly Helm, it was Docker. It took Mr. Solomon Hykes a little over five minutes to completely change computing history. Ok, …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Using C Language in monitoring “C Programming language” (or simply C Language) is the title of the book published in 1978 by Brian W. Kernighan and Dennis M. Ritchie, where they introduced the idea of presenting an example program called “Hello world !” And …
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 …
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 …
Datadog alternative: history, comparison and use cases Do you know the Datadog software? Datadog is also the name of the company that produces it, and here we bring it in a comparison with Pandora FMS. First of all we want to tell you that …
Wifi monitoring, power and wireless network range Although since 1985 the federal government of the United States of America provided the radio bands (frequencies) to be used for our daily use, it was not until 1999 when the brand Wi-Fi® was registered, which means …
What is Grafana and how can we use it within the monitoring field? Previously in Pandora FMS we briefly mentioned Grafana and in this occasion we present you: What is Grafana? What does Grafana do? That’s why we invite you to stay! What is …
Hyperconvergence and its challenges for monitoring Hyperconvergence, hyperconvergent platforms, hyperconvergent modules, are relatively new terms in the world of data centers. In addition, each technology that emerges or evolves and succeeds in penetrating the market represents new challenges for monitoring platforms. Thus, hyperconvergence is …
Microsoft SCOM, component for monitoring. Here we go! Microsoft SCOM is an advertised software for Microsoft Windows® administration, but today we will show you that its base rests on well known monitoring techniques. Just to be clear, we emphasize the term in bold: Microsoft …
Windows Management Instrumentation in monitoring Pandora FMS features include decentralized monitoring, which is based on several standards and/or protocols of common and open use (SNMP v1 and v2 -v3 from version 7.0 NG 727-, ICMP and WMI). In this article we will talk about …
Light monitoring with Elastic Metricbeat: an alternative vision Since Pandora FMS version 7.0 NG 712, thanks to the integration with Elastic, we have drastically improved the system of storage and visualization of records or logs, which allows us to increase the growth and speed …
Industrial Monitoring Offers Audit of Manufacturing Operations The simplest machine invented by mankind is the wheel. Practically all civilizations have used it and together with fire we dare to affirm that it is the basis of civilization. Many other machineries use it and it …
The top 11 free server monitoring tools of 2020 Whether we need a web server that connects our users to a database, or a server that collects our documents to print and keeps track of the sheets we spend, monitoring a server simplifies it: …
Caddy Web Server. Monitoring of new HTTP/2 plus HTTPS As we all know, Pandora FMS allows the monitoring of practically any device or application. Let’s talk about web content servers. Even the very popular applications or “apps”, made for the Android operating system of …
Raspberry kiosk mode configuration on Pandora FMS About the Raspberry kiosk mode If you’ve been shopping recently, you may or may not have seen stores and shops with screens, promotional videos, product images, statistics, etc. Normally, for this purpose the computers are hidden. These …
HP Operations Manager: office suite for monitoring We have talked about reviews of legendary software in the area of monitoring, such as the colossus IBM® Tivoli® Netcool®. With equal pleasure, and at the request of the editorial team of this blog, today we bring …
Network TAP: three situations in which they are necessary Network TAP (Terminal Access Point or Test Access Point) is the most common hardware device used for network traffic capture purpose. A Network TAP is basically a hardware designed to access the traffic between two …
Monitoring Zimbra: with this tutorial you’ll find it quite easy to do 1. Context 1.1. What is Zimbra? Loyal to our style, let’s get started by having a look at what Zimbra is. Zimbra is a product from Synacor, which offer us a fairly …
Dynamic thresholds: some characteristics of dynamic monitoring A threshold is a value used to change from one state to another in a check and dynamic monitoring is used to automatically adjust the thresholds of module states in an intelligent and predictive way. When the …
Graylog2 VS Pandora FMS: a detailed comparison Brief history of syslog and Graylog2 Before introducing Graylog2, we first have to dive into what syslog is. Its history dates back to 1981 when Eric Paul Allman used to work at Berkeley University in California and …
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. …
Best system tools every Windows sysadmin should know If you have any experience administrating systems, or indeed if you are a bona fide systems administrator you’ll know that certain tools are fundamental, both for your job and for your mental health, making you an …
Around March we already had a warning in the form of a newsbreak that someone was infecting devices managed with TeamViewer with ransomware. Now June has just started and we get news of another, more disturbing, incident that is also affecting TeamViewer. The TeamViewer team, …
Nginx has become one of the most used web servers as of now. As a matter of fact, it’s stealing a big chunk of the market pie from the very famous Apache. According to certain sources, NGINX is used as a web server by …
Computer system monitoring: advantages, procedures and use Most company’s workforce is based on their computer systems, therefore these must be capable of responding in any situation, and sometimes at any given time of the day. Monitoring theses systems has become a fundamental task to …