Pandora FMS Vulnerability? Sometimes things may not be what they seem We recently received a notification from a concerned user, because he had found a “vulnerability” in Pandora FMS. Besides, not just any vulnerability but one that seemed to give root access to the …
Share technology, that new challenge that we help you overcome If you do not have much idea about how to share technology, you may go crazy when shopping or going through online gift websites. You know that the person you have to give something …
How to create Docker containers in order to deploy applications If you are a developer, a systems administrator, you work in the information technology sector or you are simply a technology enthusiast who has ever deployed some type of application, surely you will have …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 IPAM? Find out what it means for you and Pandora FMS Today we will take a tour of the most technical Pandora FMS. For some people, it can be a challenge. Although the IPAM extension already existed in Pandora FMS world, in …
Server down: causes and damages that it can cause to a company Just a few decades ago, almost no company had servers. They did not even use servers from third parties. In fact, in business, server functions were still unexplored, so people did not …
Code Line Counter: language statistics In this blog we have already told you about the application programmer, but… what about the code we write? Do we have any tools that shed any light on this? Well, that’s what we’re going to talk about today, …
What is Industry 4.0, and why will it really change the way we work? What is industry 4.0? Industry 4.0 represents a series of changes so deep in the productive structures, that it has been considered synonymous of a Fourth Industrial Revolution. That is …
What is the silicon lottery? And high-end processors? What does computer science have to do with lottery and high-end processors? Actually, not too much. But there is an important factor in the manufacturing process of the processors that has quite a lot to do …
Citrix NetScaler Monitoring Integrated with Pandora FMS In this article, we offer you the possibility to make an approach to the issue of Citrix NetScaler monitoring, based on the scope of this product line and the visibility challenges involved, to finally propose the solution …
Get to know through an illustrated TLS how private data is protected The wise saying says that the rope always breaks at its weakest point. That is why today we will cover the subject of safe communications with an illustrated TLS connection. In a …
Black Mirror and monitoring: how it is linked to fiction At this point of the series-junkie revolution of the last couple of years, who has not already seen the great ones? The Sopranos, Lost, Breaking Bad, Game of Thrones… are some of them and …
What is smart home?, some examples that we have and that we will see Surely you have heard the term “smart home” some time, and you may have wondered “what is smart home?” but you’re not sure what it is about. Or you may …
Introduction to WAN Load Balancers Monitoring Since load balancers are active devices that can be included in the design of a WAN, the question arises: Should we adapt our monitoring scheme to include something that could be called Load Balancer Monitoring? To answer this …
Cloud applications; the best ones to make things easy for a company Previously, on our own “How to know everything about the technology that surrounds us”, we have already talked about what cloud computing is: that option given by the Internet and its endless …
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 …
Bike sharing services and their monitoring We can see them on the streets of many cities. They are an ecological and healthy alternative to other means of transport and are becoming more and more fashionable. Haven’t you tried them yet? Bike sharing is quite …
VDI Monitoring: All you need to know to face the Challenge The decision to introduce Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) technology is not an easy one. One of the most important aspects to consider is precisely the administration and monitoring of VDI. From the point …
Dark fiber: concept, pros, cons, challenges and monitoring There is a very interesting alternative in the market in terms of communications services; we refer to the possibility of leasing or buying dark fiber segments. Since the 90s of the last century, many companies have …
Lighting monitoring, the intelligent network that illuminates us What do “smart cities” have in common? Have you ever wondered? No? Well, now’s the time! Well, for now, as a basis, I’m sure they all have an urban development based on sustainability. That’s for sure. …
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 …
What is an api for? Let’s see the necessary answers So, when someone talks to you about APIs, do you still think it refers to Blas’ inseparable partner in Sesame Street? then you may have a little problem with technology. No one will ever …