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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...
New SNMP Trap extended alerts in v4.0
Yesterday I comitted a new code for manage trap with extended alerts, that means you can grab some pieces of information, directly from the extended trap information and put in the event text: And see the event like this:
Where are in Graphviz gallery
I submitted some time ago a nice Pandora FMS's generated network map, and they have posted in their official gallery section: http://www.graphviz.org/Gallery/undirected/networkmap_twopi.html
New enterprise network map
This is a new feature for the 4.0 enterprise version, the Enterprise Network Map: Is a full featured user editable network map. You can arrange the icons, delete, add new agents, move one or a bunch of them, zoom in/out and set "links" to other...
New recursive network topology detection
New recon server with recursive topology detection for 4.0 version. Screenshot of current results using the...
New mail send/receive tool
I want to comment our last commit, is called "mail_transfer" is a tool we have developed to send files using SMTP and receive that files using POP3. It will be used in 4.0 agents by using the "custom" send method (not yet developed). This tool...
First Pandora FMS commercial 🙂
It's a please for me announce our first audiovisual commercial for Pandora FMS 🙂 Has been produced by the Artica Team, see credits below. Main actress: Elena Vallejo Luengo. Main actor: Gorka Unzueta. Director: Sergio Martin Zarzuelo -...
Pandroid: Android agent first version
This is a screenshot of the Android agent, reporting GPS information, and resolving using the new feature for Reverse geocoding: This agent reports information like GPS coordinates (translated in human description by Google Maps api for reverse...
First screenshot of a Embedded agent
This is how it looks with three small ARM devices sending information to Pandora using the new agent. A new OS type is now included in the 4.0 development version of the console, and the server detects it. This is how it looks on the agent:...
New agent for embedded linux devices (ARM…)
I'm insane and I've coded a new Pandora FMS agent in C just to run on small devices. It's working very fast and light, and only gets 1,5KB 🙂 perfect for run on embedded devices. It uses the C version of tentacle client, and works like a...
New mobile interface in Pandora FMS
You can watch now, the status of your servers in the airport, in a few clicks on your phone 🙂
Japanese community
For Japanese users! Because the 3.1 RC1 had been released, using the Pandora FMS is becoming easy in Japanese environment. So, I introduce some Japanese information. A Japanese forum had been created. (Thanks to Sancho.)...
Bug #3000000
In sourceforge, the numeration on bugs system for a project is a unique id. Is the total number of bugs in sourceforge. Today, in Pandora FMS project, a bug has been created with Id 3000000: Congratulations Pandora FMS!! After this senseless...
New GIS features
See in this video some of the new GIS features in the new version of Pandora FMS. All GIS features are...
Howto: Generate a animation video of Gource
Hi. I play with a nice toy called Gource. It's an aplication to generate animations, more or less organic, about the life of a project. It's the same that Codeswarm, althought Codeswarm is focused to developer and the generated animations seems...
Japan is an Octopus lover !!
Our friends from Japan has made a superb work translating the console, help files and the website on native Japanese. Thanks to Junichi and his team, Japanese one of the main languages supported in Pandora FMS, together english and...
New ACL system (Enterprise)
Several users reported that they want a more "flexible" ACL system, based not on groups of "things they can do", based on every page a profile could see (and operate), item by item, page by page. Current ACL model is based on "unix style"...
Good Old style documentation: manpages
I have started to create manpages, first tentacle_server and tentacle_client, then pandora_server and Pandora::Core.pm more will follow 🙂 So next time you are alone with Pandora FMS without Internet connection you can relay again in the good...
New “progress report” doc. section
I've created a new page in our wiki at openideas.info It's purpose is to put there all features we're finishing now, for the next 3.1 version, only features and enhancements, not bugfixes. This will be very useful to show people our progress and...
GIS (Geographic information system) when scifi is real
Hi. I remember in the film Enemy of the state (in spanish "Enemigo público") the computer systems that it was showing a Will Smith running across the city (but he wasn't playing parkour). This is the trailer of film for refreshing your mind:...
Pandora unix agent running on ipod touch 🙂
A bored developer is something very dangerous... you never know what it will happen... This weekend I was quite bored and somehow I thought it was interesting to try to run Pandora Unix Agent on my iPod Touch. It's a jailbroken 1st generation...