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Content: Introduction Accessing the BIOS from Windows Alternatives to using the Windows 10 and 11 method What does UEFI stand for? When should you update your BIOS? How to update your BIOS BIOS Update Considerations Every computer has its BIOS, short for Basic...
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...
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...
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 (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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
Cherry blossoms (SAKURA) was fully bloomed in beginning of April in Tokyo. Japanese member in front of SAKURA with new pandora...
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...
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...
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...
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 (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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
