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 information from the OS are still working to be used on Pandora FMS, I’ve just tested to run the newest pandora FMS agent (4.0.3 pre release) and works like a charm, see screenshot 🙂

El equipo de redacción de Pandora FMS está formado por un conjunto de escritores y profesionales de las TI con una cosa en común: su pasión por la monitorización de sistemas informáticos.
Pandora FMS’s editorial team is made up of a group of writers and IT professionals with one thing in common: their passion for computer system monitoring.