Monitoring
Subnets. What is a subnet? How does it work?
Subnetting is the process of dividing a network into several smaller, independent subnets. Each subnet is a portion of the core network that follows a specific logic. We know the definition of the use of subnets in local networks that we could use in our company,...
Something IT professionals need to know and miss
At PAndora FMS we have IT professionals on an altar. Literally, one next to the water dispenser in the office. I'm serious! It even has its blessed liturgical cloth, its flattering parsley, its candles and the incense! But there are still things...
Why does Pandora FMS Open Source exist?
My name is Sancho and I am the person who started developing Pandora FMS in 2004. I want to tell you why Pandora FMS Open Source exists and why the community is so important to me. We tell you why Pandora FMS Open Source exists I always liked...
What’s new Pandora FMS NG LTS Akira
Let's check out together the features and improvements related to Pandora FMS new release: Pandora FMS 762. Remember that this is an LTS, we only have two of them a year, they are stable. What's new in Pandora FMS latest release, Pandora FMS 762...
Thanks to you, our LTS Release finally has a name!
A few days ago we gave you the opportunity in social media and through email to choose, by means of a simple survey, the upcoming names of our LTS Release (Long Term Support). Participation has been a success! More than two hundred participants!...
Which name sounds like Pandora FMS?
Hello! Your time has come! If you have always wanted to put an epic name to a pet or a child, to your most personal book or album, or for those geek among us to a sword or your faithful steed, here we give you a chance! Not for any of these...
The all-seeing eye can’t wear a patch
The expert technologists around you, that digital magazine, your mother and your horoscope have already warned you more than once: IT monitoring is a prerequisite for your company's health! Content: Visibility. Not a blind spot in your...
What is WMIC and why will it be discontinued?
As we already explained on one occasion in this blog, Windows Management Instrumentation, WMI, is a technology owned by the company Microsoft®. But there’s even more! Things have changed and we are going to tell you all about it! Do you already...
What’s New Pandora FMS 761
Let's check out together the features and improvements related to the new Pandora FMS release: Pandora FMS 761. What's new in the latest Pandora FMS release, Pandora FMS 761 NEW FEATURES AND IMPROVEMENTS New "Custom Render" Report A new item has...
Pandora FMS at the very top of G2
Bring it on Pandora FMS! If we have previously told you about our success at the Open Source Awards 2022 and the Peer Awards 2021, today we are here to tell you that we are at it once again! We are at the top of G2 of Monitoring Software! “Why...
Events in MS Windows and Pandora FMS, does anyone give more?
If the spreadsheet was the essential application for accounting and massification of personal computers, MS Windows® operating system was the graphical interface that turned work into something more pleasant and paved the way for web browsers...
Two-factor authentication in Pandora FMS
I have been a regular user of Pandora FMS for years and the best I can say about them is that they always have something new to add to my learning. Today, for example, I rediscovered the Two-Factor authentication in Pandora FMS! *And I did it,...
Active Directory, what you need to know
The history of this blog explaining what is what in the world of technology is long, we admit. Maybe one day we’ll release a compilation episode, sort of a cabaret musical thing, with all the info and even some special guests, why not! Meanwhile...
What is remote network monitoring?
Remote network moniRemote network monitoring is a technical specialty that was born almost at the same time as networks themselves. Since then, many strategies have emerged when it comes to monitoring network elements. In this article we will...
You want to know whether a dangerous stranger has your passwords?
We already live in a post-apocalyptic future that has nothing to envy to great franchises like Mad Max or Blade Runner. Proof of this are pollution, pandemics and the fact that your most intimate secrets can be violated because your most...
Do you know these IP Scanners?
Close your eyes. Imagine that, instead of being a good person reading this article at home, you are a newbie network administrator who must manage the IP addresses of thousands of devices networked on the extensive networks of a large...
What is a network monitoring system?
Network monitoring is a set of automatic processes that help to detect the status of each element of your network infrastructure. We are talking about routers, switches, access points, specific servers, intermediate network elements, and other...
Prometheus monitoring: a new open source generation
Prometheus seeks to be a new generation within open source monitoring tools. A different approach with no legacies from the past. For years, many monitoring tools have been linked to Nagios for its architecture and philosophy or just for being a...
Find that IT job you were aiming for
When you leave the faculty with a smile on your face and after the undertow of the graduation celebration, you hope that the great multinationals approach you with hundreds and varied jobs. “Take this huge sum of money and work on what you...
DMaaS gives you more!
In our blog we have posted a few articles about data centers. We like them. They have grown on us. It is a branch of technology that interests us as much as bitcoin interests brothers-in-law or neighborhood projects interest retirees. For that...
Distributed Systems and the 21st century
At the end of the last century I had the opportunity to help in a very ambitious computer project: the search for radio messages emitted by extraterrestrial civilizations... And what the hell does it have to do with Distributed Systems? Recently...