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...
ChatOps: when chatting becomes productive
So as you may have noticed, we just released a chat bot plugin for Pandora FMS in order to adapt Pandora to the growing tendency around ChatOps and its use. In spite of this, you may still wondering exactly what ChatOps is all about. I mean,...
ChatOps: Pandora FMS meets Slack and Mattermost
ChatOps: what does it really mean? Probably you've been listening to this word a lot lately but you still may not know exactly what all this is about. Its creation is attributed to this video from the GitHub platform, which refers to a concept...
Pandora FMS: Docker Swarm plugin (WhaleTopus)
Since the release of Docker Swarm at Artica TS we've been planning a way for Pandora FMS to combine with this new Docker feature, in order to monitor complex Docker Swarm environments under high availability schemes. As we mentioned in a...
Docker Cloud: Docker gets its head in the Cloud
These days the community has been going crazy about Docker's new approach to cloud services and SaaS with the release of Docker cloud. This new product by Docker promises to provide a great service and very interesting features, including a very...
Docker Swarm: a boost in your network potential
Docker is developing a new protocol they're (quite logically) denominating "Docker Swarm". According to Docker's new documentation section specific to this add-on Swarm is literally a "native clustering for Docker. It turns a pool of Docker...
Cloud Monitoring: a real experience with Toni de la Fuente
Today we've had the pleasure of talking to one of our first Pandora FMS Ambassadors. After having talked to him some days ago in order to introduce our program to him, the feeling I had was that he was a person with a large amount of technical...
Computer system monitoring: advantages, procedures and use
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...
Database types and a countdown of the best databases
We find ourselves at a very interesting time for the database sector, and there are many types of databases on the market as of now. On one side we have relational databases, which right now have got a stronger establishment. On the other side...
Pandora FMS experience in Slovakia
Who are these guys wearing the awesome Pandora FMS t-shirts?? They are Miro, Simon and Roman, 3 nice guys that belong to a student organization of the University of Zilina in Slovakia. Their main goal is to develop data network and provide...
New dates to become an expert of Pandora FMS
Do you want to get the best performance of your Pandora FMS? It's easy. Pandora FMS is a very intuitive and user friendly tool, but also it has so many features that make the path a little bit difficult for someone that hasn't previous...
New Cisco IPSLA Plugin
In the early 70’s the computer networks appeared for the first time. These networks were rapidly converted into an absolute necessity for all the IT people who were troubled with the need to transfer information. In the companies, the...
Shellshock Vulnerability (CVE-2014-6271, CVE-2014-7169)
Some days ago, a user ask us about the new ShellShock vulnerability (affecting Bash). I give him this answer: Most interaction with Pandora on the user side is using CONSOLE, this is build on PHP and it uses bash for executing some custom...
False Positives in Monitoring
False positives (as well as false negatives) are a recurrent issue in our experience in monitoring, and after a while we are pretty sure that it's worth talking about them. The best way to approach a problem is using an example: Suppose we use...
Graphs in Pandora FMS
Nowadays, the best way to resolve a technical problem in our systems or devices is to solve this problems even before it happens. Here is where a proper prevention system is required. The prevention of problems in each electronic component...
How to monitor Apache Hbase
In this brave new world of big data, a database technology called "Bigtable", for example Apache Hbase, would seem to be worth considering -- particularly if that technology is the creation of engineers at Google, a company that should know a...
How to monitor Raven DB
A new plug in has just been created. Now Pandora FMS can monitor Raven DB's performance settings. Raven DB is a NoSQL database. What is NoSQL? A NoSQL or Not Only SQL database provides a mechanism for storage and retrieval of data that is...
IP Address Management (IPAM)
One of the new features of 5.1 version is a useful extension to IPv4/IPv6 Address Management (from now IPAM). With IPAM feature, you will be able to: Discover networks IPs detection in a subnet. Checking response of each IP (Up or Down depending...
Agents automated installation with Puppet
This article is going to serve as a foundation for automating the automatic process of installing Pandora FMS' agents on multiple systems simultaneously: either Windows, Linux or Unix. The tool that has been used for this process is Puppet....
Responsive design for monitoring everywhere
The first version of the current mobile console was created for Pandora FMS 4.1. Since then, a lot of improvements have been done on it. Specially to be adaptable to most kind of devices possible. Hereby we made efforts to adapt the contain...
Pandora with SAKURA
Cherry blossoms (SAKURA) was fully bloomed in beginning of April in Tokyo. Japanese member in front of SAKURA with new pandora...