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...
Pandora FMS now integrated with PagerDuty
Downtime hurts customer loyalty and impacts revenue so it is critical to resolve issues quickly. Since your systems need to be up 24/7/365, you need to know when there are issues whenever, wherever. Today we launched our integration with...
S.M.A.R.T status plugin
Manuel Angel Fernandez published a new interesting plugin for Pandora FMS in his blog (spanish). It's an agent plugin to search the system attached drives and retrieve the S.M.A.R.T status. This parameter is a simple value that show if the drive...
Mobile devices monitoring and monitoring using mobile devices
The presence of the mobile phones in our lives is unquestionable, and the monitoring systems have been forced to evolve with them. There are two sides on this coin: Monitor the mobile devices and use these devices to monitor. Anyway, Pandora FMS...
How to monitor Apache Cassandra, lots of data under control
Monitor the storage of lots of data In recent times with the arrival of social networking, appeared the need of storage and manage huge quantity of data. The classic database management systems have been, in some sense, deprecated due the low...
DRBD Monitoring
DRBD (Distributed Replicated Block Device) is a system for the distributed replicated storage for the Linux platform. It allows to have a remote mirror in real time (equivalent to RAID-1 in network). DRBD refers both the software (kernel module...
Rich text, Infinite possibilities
Recently we have released the first "Service Pack" for Pandora FMS 5. One of the improvements included on this SP1 is the configuration of the items in a Visual Console using rich text. On this way, it's possible to create items with any color...
New iPhone/iPad App
We are glad to announce the new Pandora FMS Application for iPhone and iPad. With this App you can acces to your Pandora FMS 5 Console and manage the most important features as Tactical view, Events, Monitor graphs, Agents, Groups and Network...
New VMWare image of Pandora FMS 5
A VMWare image with Pandora FMS 5 pre-installed is now available at our Sourceforge project page. This applicance is based on our CentOS appliance CD (More info in the documentation HERE). And it is valid for ESX/ESXi, workstation, virtualdisk,...
Pandora FMS logo history
Why an octopus? I choose the octopus for two reasons: a) We need a logo based on an animal, due the opensource nature of the project. b) There is nothing more flexible than a octopus, and the F of FMS is "Flexible": It can reach with their...
Open Source Conference 2013 Tokyo/Fall
'Open Source Conference 2013 Tokyo/Fall' is being held on October 19 and 20 at Meisei univ. in Tokyo. Japanese developers are introducing Pandora FMS. Junichi, Hirofumi and Koichiro. Following video is moving TENTACLE using USB power in the...
How to monitor PostgreSQL
How to monitor PostgreSQL PostgreSQL is a very powerful and stable database management system (SGBD) that allows managing a very large amount of data. In its more than 16 years of active development by a selfless, altruistic and free community...
Russian and Chinese native speakers wanted!
If you are a Chinese or a Russian native speaker with an excellent command in English and you wish to make some extra money, we have a job offer for you. You can work from home and you set the rhythm. All you have to do: - Send us your resume...
Help us translate Pandora FMS into your own language
We are seeking Brazilian, Russian and Chinese native speakers with an excellent command in English to translate the console of Pandora FMS from English into their mother tongue in Launchpad. It won't take you too long and you can make some money...
“Pandora FMS has become one of the most valuable and important tools in our environment”
G4S Greece has 35 years of history and an extensive national network deployed throughout Greece, which includes operations in 33 cities and more than 2,500 employees. Their wide network requires their systems to be fully operating 24 hours a...
New IMAP Mail Plugin
We have a NEW server plugin available with which we can monitor the emails that come to our IMAP mail account. Depending on the configuration that you apply, you can do the following: - Monitor if we get a new mail with filtering that perform...
New Appliance CD for Pandora FMS 4.1
Hello everybody, From 4.1 the "first" Linux distro choosen for Pandora FMS has changed to CentOS. This is because several technical reasons, one of them -but not the most important- is the faulty release of OpenSUSE 12.3 flooded with critical...
How to monitor Varnish Cache
Varnish is a web application accelerator. It is a reverse proxy that acts like a HTTP cache. Since it allows speeding up the service through content caching, it’s a very useful app for web apps or services with a high traffic volume. The typical...
Agent for Windows Phone 7
The architecture of Pandora FMS allows to create a light software pieces called "Agents" to gather and send information of the host to the server. The latest agent created is for Windows Phone 7. Thanks to Patricio Martínez, member of Frameworks...
Event site of OSC2013 Tokyo/Spring
Today was the first day of ‘Open Source Conference 2o13 Tokyo/Spring’. Although the event is named “Spring”, it is still winter in Japan. It was a cold day today. But, many people who are interested in open source software and related services...
A fifteen year-old boy installs Pandora FMS successfully
It is obvious that the Internet has become one of the main sources to learn. The Internet is plenty of video-tutorials, forums and other sources of information which help us activating our self-taught side. The learning process occurs naturally...