monitoring a ship

[Sancho]

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Guys,

We are trailing Pandora as our monitoring system.
This system will especially be used to monitor systems we manage on several ships.

These ships come and go when we talk about internet connectivity.
Currently every 5 minutes the servers(s) will upload their information to the pandora server.

When I look in the raw data information then I see that we loose information regarding the time that the ships are ‘down’. Meaning that the ship have temporary lost their internet connection

What we want is that the information being gathered by the pandora agent on the server is kept on the agent/server. When the ship comes back online then all the information that has been collected in the mean time needs to be uploaded to the main server. The main server needs to process this backlog and refresh all the data as if nothing happend.

Is this possible in pandora. If yes…  how?

Many thanks for a great product like Pandora.
Keep up the good work!

Brenno.

Hi Brenno,

I think you’re talking about a “buffering” agent. It’s something we’ve planned for next version :(. But now you can do something similar, sending all packages to a “central” intermediate server or proxy, and this proxy will  manage the “pool” of data and sent all together to your server when it can do.

We call to this kind of setup a “tentacle proxy server” setup and described it on our docs. It’s easy, just setup a tentacle server in a machine, put an script who reads all information in a directory where all agents put it’s data, and sent all data to a main pandora server, a very tiny & easy shellscript. You can also create this mechanism in a windows system using a unix/perl enviroment for windows like Cygwin.

More info in:

http://openideas.info/wiki/index.php?title=Pandora_3.0:Documentation_es:TentacleProxy

TIP: Some interesting stuff you can find in the next version of Pandora FMS is about GIS and display of geographical data in pandora, including movement history,  map visualization and interative visualization of GIS data coming from agents. Checkout in the next months our developers blog at blog.pandorafms.org, this will be very nice feature!.

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Sancho,

Thanks for the information. This is really a nice solution.
We therefor decided to run version 3.0 in stead of 2.1 we were testing out.

I’ve also tested this ‘tentacle proxy’ solution and it works like a charm.

Keep up the good work!

brenno.

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In a few weeks we will launch RC3, I hope this will be the final version, there are not new features, but a few bugs fixes since RC2. Anyway RC2 is pretty stable and functional !