Monitoring
SMART goals: What they are and how to apply them in IT projects
Content: What are SMART goals and why are they important in IT? Breakdown of SMART Goals into IT Projects Practical Examples of SMART Goals in IT Benefits of SMART Goals Disadvantages or, Rather, Considerations about SMART Goals And there are not only SMART goals...
What are MAC addresses? What are they for and how to find them?
Content: What are MAC addresses, what are they for and how to find them? What are MAC addresses? What is the MAC address for? How can you find out the MAC address of a device? And now, a little bit of monitoring What are MAC addresses, what are...
Pandora FMS new year greetings to our followers
Pandora FMS new year greetings to our followers HAPPY NEW YEAR! And this is not a normal "Happy New Year", the same as always, the flamboyant and festive one that we all shout on 1st January at family meals or, hopefully, already "merry" at the...
Monitoring systemd logs
Systemd logs: how to monitor them with Pandora FMS Systemd logs, without exemption, can be monitored in this proof of concept that we will see next. But what is systemd and how does it work? I will tell you in advance that I do not want to...
Tech Equivalent Professions For Your Career
5 traditional profession and their equivalent tech professions Switching careers is not an easy task. Sometimes people struggle to switch professions mid-career because they don’t have the right support or they just don’t want to start over....
Proxmox VE Monitoring
Content: Proxmox VE monitoring with Pandora FMS What is Proxmox VE? Agent Plugin Pandora FMS agent in Proxmox VE Proxmox VE monitoring with Pandora FMS In this article, we will focus on Proxmox VE monitoring, a virtualization system, for which...
The Benefits and Drawbacks of SaaS: The New Paradigm vs On-Premises Software
Benefits and Drawbacks of SaaS and what it is like compared to on-premise software SaaS has rapidly become the go-to software and computing solution for businesses and industries across the world. While it’s costly to develop and deploy servers...
We achieved ISO/IEC 27001
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...
8 ideas on how to boost your team’s productivity
How to boost your team's productivity? Find it out IT teams are essential for many companies to work. And, although due to the nature of their work they have certain features, you should not forget that, after all, they are human teams, so they...
What is RAM memory? How does it affect your computer?
There is basic knowledge, like freshman year computing, which we often take for granted but that is always a pleasure to remember. From how to take a screenshot to where to find stickers thick enough to blind a laptop's webcam, to...
What are logs and why monitor them?
It seems incredible that a text file can be important for the proper functioning of a company. Because a log, in its most basic form, is nothing more than that. However, it is not that they are important, it is that they are vital. Let's see it....
What is bandwidth and how does it affect your connections?
What is bandwidth and how it affects connection speed? What is bandwidth? Over the last few years, and at the dawn of the very celebrated arrival of the Internet into our homes and our beloved cell phones, concepts such as bandwidth, previously...
What is VPN? The acronyms that could save your life
What is VPN and how does it help connection security? What is VPN? You know that in IT we absolutely love acronyms, right? Specifying and summing things up is our thing. Digital Video Disc? DVD. Central Processing Unit? CPU. Asymmetric Digital...
Common and Disastrous Network Monitoring Mistakes and How to Avoid Them
5 big network monitoring mistakes and how to solve them If you run a sizable enterprise, your network is probably sprawling. You also probably have a network management or IT security team on the payroll to handle monitoring. Their job is to...
Managing Network Configuration Changes Five Best Practices
Managing Network Configuration Changes: Five Best Practices Do you know what the most common cause of network outages and performance problems is? Misconfiguration. For as much time and energy as people spend talking about issues such as...
How can I amplify my WiFi signal?
Amplify WiFi : find out how to do it If you don't know, I already tell you that it is always convenient to have a good WiFi signal, and that is why, today, on Pandora FMS blog, we are going to talk about how to amplify WiFi. The WiFi signal has...
Workstation monitoring
Workstation monitoring with Pandora FMS Pandora FMS is a proactive, advanced, flexible and easy-to-configure monitoring tool tailored to each business. It gets integrated into all the needs of servers, network computers, terminals and whatever...
Remote working monitoring: A breach of privacy or a gateway to a work-from-home culture?
Remote work monitoring: key issues One benefit of the lockdown triggered by the coronavirus epidemic has been a renewed enthusiasm for working at home. Forced to let millions of employees work from home to avoid contagion, companies that had...
Do you know what Open Pandora is? Meet our dear namesake
What is Open Pandora and what does it have to do with Pandora FMS? Our world is full of funny stuff. Things like the most common name in the world being Mohammed or that the ancient Romans, when they had to swear they were telling the truth in a...
GNU Linux commands to inventory computer hardware
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...
What challenges does IT monitoring face?
What are the next challenges for IT monitoring? "The big challenge is to become all you could possibly be", Jim Rohn. "The only way to grow is to challenge yourself," Ashley Tisdale. “The bigger the obstacle, the more glory there is in...