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...
Open Source Conference 2013 Tokyo/Spring
“Open Source Conference 2013 Tokyo/Spring” will be held in February 22nd and 23rd. That is an event for developers, users and sponsors(companies) engaged in open source communities in Tokyo, Japan. Japanese developers including me will be there....
Interview to Sancho Lerena in Sourceforge’s blog
Sourceforge published in their blog an article that related the interview of Rich Bowen to Sancho Lerena, the Pandora FMS creator and team leader. In the interview they talked, among other things, about topics like: The Pandora FMS origin and...
How to monitor MongoDB or how to keep your users happy
How to monitor MongoDB Monitor MongoDB for 99,99% uptime Loyalty takes time and effort. The Internet gives us a wide range of options. So if something fails there are many other websites waiting for our users to come, just one click away. That...
Visual map possibilities
With the customization of the visual maps is possible build really good screens. Something more beautiful than the classic ugly control panels that burn up the eyes of the system admins 😛 An example of this flexible tool is the following Visual...
Customizing inventory with your own scripts in Pandora FMS
Inventory is an awesome enterprise feature in Pandora, but is not common to hear customers that they doesn't use it because doesn't know well. Okay, this is a brief overview, not about how use it, not... it's about how to use your own scripts to...
Pandora FMS on Windows 8 !
I not a Windows lover, I must recognize that Windows 8 has very beautiful desktop and some nice features in the file manager / windows explorer... anyway, far away from Mac, of course 😉 Anyway, powershell, WMI and lots of powerful ways to get...
New v4.0.3 feature: Command Snapshot
Imagine that you can get a command output snapshot in your monitoring console. Imagine now that you can to store the command output each 5 minutes and review it when you want. Ok, so... now is possible with Pandora FMS 4.0.3. This new...
Monitoring Teams – IECI
Hello everyone: The monitoring systems world is not big, actually. So we have the idea of collect pictures of monitoring teams around the world to know each other and share our experiences better 🙂 Today we're going to post a picture of the...
Pandora FMS at Google Summer of Code Mentor Summit 2012
This year we participated in the Google Summer of Code. GSoC is a global program that offers students stipends to write code for open source projects (see more). We got three students working in various android projects (event viewer and...
GSOC 2012: Pandroid Event Viewer
After two months of program I can tell participating in GSOC is such an interesting experience. It was my first time as a mentor and I think this program is a very good opportunity to exchange points of view and find out new ways of working....
GSOC 2012. Pandora FMS browser extension project
It was my first Google Summer of Code as mentor, and I must say, GSOC is an incredible opportunity devised by Google . All the students who join this program are willing to learn and help you with your projects as much as they can. The...
GSOC 2012: Pandroid Agent 3.0
I work as a developer in Pandora FMS. It's an Open source monotoring tool which has more than 500000 downloads all over the world. When we found out that we had been picked to participate in Google Summer of code, we were very pleased and...
Pandora FMS seminar and exhibition in OSC2012 Tokyo/Fall
Today is the first day of "Open Source Conference 2012 Tokyo/Fall". Pandora FMS seminar presented by Kosaka. About 40 people attended. Kosaka and Koichiro, japanese developers, at our exibition booth. I took this picture. So, I'm not in...
Spread of European countries with Pandora FMS
We have created a new plugin that gets from Bloomberg website the 10 year Spread of several European countries like Spain, Greece, Italy, Portugal...Then we have create a special visual map to it.
Open Source Conference 2012 Tokyo/Fall
"Open Source Conference 2012 Tokyo/Fall" will be held in September 7th and 8th. That is an event for developers, users and sponsors(companies) engaged in open source communities in Tokyo, Japan. Japanese developers including me will be there....
Japanese delights
Well, our team's travellers returned from Tokyo this weekend. After tell us a lot of stories about the meeting with the Japanese Development Team , sake adventures and more... they gave us a present from the Japanese people!! It's a couple of...
Spanish team joins Japanese team in Tokyo !
This is an historic moment. Japan Developers, Koichiro Kikuchi and Hirofumi Kosaka, leaded by Junichi Satoh, receive a visit in R-Works of Sancho Lerena and Darío Rodriguez. We have discuss for three days about the future of Pandora FMS, new...
Help for Pandora FMS 4.0.2 translations
Hello everybody, we are preparing the new release, the 4.0.2 version. In this version there are several new strings to translate and we need your help. Is really easy to collaborate. You only have to enter in launchpad site and translate the...
Remote SSH/Telnet connections from Pandora FMS console
I've just implemented a very nice and demanded feature: to be able users to connect remote devices by SSH or Telnet from the Pandora FMS console, just by the web console, without Java, Flash or anything else, and to have that connection done...
First IRC Meeting for Pandora FMS GSoC 2012 project.
It's exciting to work with new guys at the project, and the first time we coordinate something like this using IRC. Here are the meeting topics for this first meeting: [18:08] <slerena> so, this is our first meeting ! 🙂 [18:09]...