Monitoring
On-premise vs SaaS 2025
In the world of infrastructure management and enterprise software, the choice between on-premise and SaaS (Software as a Service) solutions has become a strategic decision for every organization, influencing key areas such as security, flexibility and operational...
There is only one way to live in peace: Safe password management
A few rules for safe password management In this, our competent blog, we boast of always giving you good advice and providing you with the technological information necessary for your life as a technologist to make sense. Today it is the case...
10 reasons why you shouldn’t install Nagios in your company
Everybody knows Nagios, or at least… everybody should know Nagios. It is a useful tool to monitor systems and networks that thousands of users worldwide have been using for more than fifteen years. Then, if it is so popular, on what are we based...
Monitoring security architecture
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...
Engineering and development in Pandora FMS
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...
Proactive Monitoring in Digital Transformation Times
Pandora FMS is a proactive, advanced, flexible and easy-to-configure monitoring tool according to each business. Pandora FMS integrates with the needs of the business, being able to monitor servers, network equipment, terminals and whatever is...
Violence and Redemption: SNMP Protocol History
You know what it is, but do you know SNMP protocol history? There was a dark time, more than dark, sepia or beige, in short, that tone in which we find the photos of our grandparents inside the drawer of the oldest and worst decorated closet in...
Everything you need to know about Office 365 Monitoring
Do you know everything about Office 365 Monitoring? Microsoft Office 365 Monitoring (Known as Office 365) Pandora FMS is a proactive, advanced and flexible monitoring tool which is also easy-to-configure according to each business and their...
Walking Meetings: perfect new idea or the dumbest thing ever?
What are Walking Meetings and how can they help us? I hope you are not tired of "trend" terms, the neologisms that multiply everywhere and the upstart concepts that you can't seem to memorize that well because they always sound like something...
Greater than Biblical Genesis: Tentacle Protocol Genesis
Everything Has a Beginning: The Genesis of Tentacle Protocol You probably know all kinds of remarkable “genesis”: the biblical and canonized, where Adam and Eve have their first Tinder date, the British rock band from the 60s with excellent...
Here come the winners of Peer Awards 2021: Pandora FMS
Pandora FMS is proclaimed the winner of Peer Awards in its modality How good it is to welcome you to our blog with such great news. Come in, come in and read, don't all corner yourself at the back, there is also room in front here. I guess by...
BMC Remedyforce Plugin for Pandora FMS
Pandora FMS means flexibility to work with third party applications. There are more than eight hundred pages of documentation for Pandora FMS. The science - and art, I think - of monitoring is very extensive. The needs of a large company are...
Do you already know what Synthetic Transaction Monitoring is?
A small approach to Synthetic Monitoring Most of us who work in IT understand the concept of basic monitoring. It is not that it is an irrelevant concept, but rather, it is essential for any infrastructure, either manual, by reading logs and...
Shy but interesting look at the history of monitoring
History of monitoring: find out its controversial origin Close your eyes and breathe slowly, can you already feel the coolness on the tips of your boots? On the tense phalanges of your hands? The first step is right in front of you. It is a...
New Pandora FMS features and improvements
We check out some of the best Pandora FMS news in 2020 Today we are here to make a small compilation of the new Pandora FMS features launched throughout this last year 2020, a general review of all the small advances that we incorporated and...
Did you know that there are several USB types? Do you know them all?
Content: the final list to know them all What is a USB? Standards Types of connectors Mistaking them with USB Memory The final list to know them all "Pen drive", "memory stick", for those less attentive: “VHS”... We have given many names to what...
Safe browsing, a sex story in the incognito window
Internet safe browsing; how our experts do it Since the "Get it on!" (an instructive old spot on prophylactics) we have never been so aware of safety. It seems like an exaggeration, like a freakout attack I just suffered this morning, for...
Pandora FMS Cloud and new download website. The top of 2021.
Pandora FMS launches Cloud installation and new download website. Here at Pandora FMS we love news. If it were up to us we would wear new dresses and stilettos every week, we would open headquarters in an unknown tropical country and we would...
Pandora FMS from Microsoft Azure
How to use Pandora FMS from Microsoft Azure In this article we will focus on our on-premise platform, or cloud monitoring after having installed Pandora FMS console in Microsoft Azure. The installation will be made with an automated script that...
What is a NAS server and what is it for?
What is a NAS server and what is it for? Storage devices for networking, or NAS servers are in good health. And no wonder, since we have increasingly more data to save and more need to use them from different locations. Traditionally, NAS...
What you needed: Top network monitoring benefits
Discover the top network monitoring benefits Welcome to "The Top", a program for grandfathers and children, for those who are idly hanging around and those who are natural achievers, for both nerds and popular quarterbacks. In short, this...