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 is SIEM?
What is SIEM? The help that you need to keep your business safe SIEM (Security Information and Event Management) is a kind of software whose purpose is to provide organizations and corporations with useful information. “About what?” you may...
Optimize MariaDB: tips to deal with load spikes
Load spikes? We give you some tips to optimize MariaDB This 2020 is perfect to check our beloved Pandora FMS server and precisely a very important component is the database (BD). As our loyal readers already know (and if you visit us for the...
Hughes India and Pandora FMS: when two companies become friends
Hughes India and Pandora FMS joined together as partners Pandora FMS keeps making friends. We like to make them all over the world. With them, we learn and share the best we have. They in turn play their part, creating a smooth professional...
The laws of robotics and why they won’t work in the real world
Content: What are the laws of robotics? What are they, and will they work in the real world? Why wouldn't they work in real life? Would the laws of robotics be able to control the behavior of an Artificial Intelligence? Do you want to know more...
Working from home: telecommuting open tools
Perfect telecommuting open tools to work from home «Every cloud has a silver lining». Popular sayings are wise and pragmatic. This year we added coronavirus and telecommuting to our daily vocabulary. Both words are compounds and the first one...
In Pandora FMS we love video games
Pandora FMS employees choose their favorite video games A long, long time ago, almost before Pandora FMS green color became part of the rainbow, a revolutionary idea came from the heart of the company: creating an arcade machine, like those of...
Programmer slang
Abbreviations, acronyms ... What is the programmer slang? Programmer slang is very particular, but it is by no means the exception and that is why in all specialties they have their own jargon. In this article, we will focus on showing its...
Blade servers vs rack servers. Fight!
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...
4 Important Benefits of Remote Checks with Software Agents
Why using Remote Checks is vital for any company One of the biggest impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic has been the number of employees asked or required to work from home. Whilst the capability to work completely remotely has been available for...
Centralize monitoring with our Metaconsole
Centralize Monitoring: The Importance of the Metaconsole Gradually, brick by brick, we will get the necessary toolkit to build a company and maintain it. If on previous occasions we have emphasized the importance of monitoring a company's IT...
What is a Server Operating System? How can we monitor it?
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...
How to choose servers for your company
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...
Solarwinds alternative to monitor your infrastructure: Pandora FMS
Solarwinds alternative Solarwinds alternative In the present article, we want to introduce Pandora FMS as a Solarwinds alternative. We're going to put two of the fullest-featured and highly regarded monitoring products on the market, Pandora FMS...
What is Podman? Docker’s successor?
Let’s delve into the confrontation between Docker vs Podman. Is actually Podman the successor of the renowned Docker? Or is it just a wannabe? Content: What is Podman? Is Podman the replacement for Docker or just another competitor? Podman’s...
VLAN, WLAN, LAN… and other types of networks you should know
Network Types: Are you sure you know them all, every single one? If you thought the fishmonger's hair net was the only kind of net you're wrong. From Pandora FMS we will show you some more, so that you do not get lost without them. The term...
What is network scanning? How to do it?
Starting monitoring? Remember network scanning goes first! The work of an admin or network administrator may seem ordinary, that type of work that just follows a guide, but right now, you could not be further from truth. Here I bring you network...
Free web monitoring tools
Web applications? Blogs? What you need is web monitoring tools! In English, the word "present" has two different meanings: the first one is "now", as in now that you are reading this article, and also the meaning of gift. There is no...
Pandora FMS and Toshiba: a success story in hospitality business
Toshiba's success story thanks to Pandora FMS software Pandora FMS and Toshiba met each other on a cold winter morning, they exchanged looks and... This would be a great start to a love story, wouldn't it? However, the relationship between...
What are racks and which one should you buy?
What are racks? A rack is a structure, usually made out of metal and cabinet or wall-shaped, which allows to store and organize the different components of computer installations, such as servers, storage systems, switches, etc. Is that it? Are...
How to use the docker run command for Docker container execution
As you may already know, Docker is an amazing tool for collaborative programming work, allowing us to work in a virtually identical environment, regardless of the operating system we are on. In a previous article we learned how to create our own...