Several question reagrding Pandora

[suzdal]

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* Can Pandora bring crashed Linux services up like Monit? The manual says about some watchdog mode, but it seems it only present in Windows agent?

Watchdog mode is only for windows, in linux u need to do by yourself
ps axu | grep defunct
will show all defunt process

* How Pandora integrates syslog events? I seen some mention of this feature, but couldn’t find how to configure it?

this alert command put a new line in daemon log with alert level, like /var/log/messages or /var/log/syslog, keep in mind your distro logs to see what file changes.

* Is the hardware/software inventory plugin only available in enterprise version?

Yes, but you can use vbs and wmi to keep a soft inventory.

* Is it possible to get server temperature (CPU, motherboard, HD, etc…)?

in linux is easy, just grep hddtemp or sensors

* Is it possible to compare multiple servers history (like Ganglia allows)?

i don’t know “Ganglia”, in deep. But you can create your own graphics and reports to show cpu average load, memory process, latency, etc…

* How Tentacle protocol works – is it UDP based like Ganglia / CollectD, or something else?

see iana 41121/TCP

* Last question about configuration – is it possible to remotely install the Pandora agent on multiple machines? Or one needs to install it via RPM and change the server IP in the configuration file?

Yes, in windows.
in linux… just install one, make all changes you need,  and copy files to eachother, after register agent in rc.

[SyRenity]

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Hi.

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this alert command put a new line in daemon log with alert level, like /var/log/messages or /var/log/syslog, keep in mind your distro logs to see what file changes.

You mean that alert will be raised for every new log message added to these logs (of appropriate level of course)?

Where I should set it – on agent or on the server?

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[suzdal]

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no, is the opposite.

when you make a new alert for an agent, you can choose a command to do about it, send an email, a sms, play a sound, etc… or do an “internal Audit”, this is a type of command alert to only register the alert like an event in Pandora console.

[SyRenity]

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But how I make the agent to read the data from Syslogs – where do I configure it?

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1. To raise up services directly from agents it’s a feature only available to windows. To raise up or interatuate with the system FROM the server, (just by ejecuting something by SSH) is easy just ejecuting an alert.

2. Pandora “reads” not only syslog, can read any kind of logfile using regular expressions. Take a look to unix agent plugin for reading logs.

3. The inventory is for enterprise version only

4. Yes, like another data, by capturing the output of a command line command execution.

5. Yes, we call it “Custom graphs” or “Combined graphs”, you can put there any sources as you be able to differenciate in the graph 🙂

6. You can do it in several ways: By a script using SSH to remotely install the agent from sources, with a software deployment tool using the .deb / .rpm packages. Even you can build your own .rpm. .deb with a custom .conf, because you have the sources of the packages also in the source repository.

I hope you find Pandora useful, and don’t hesitate to suggest any new feature or problem found.

Happy new year !

Hi.

I’m evaluating the Pandora FMS, and had several questions:

* Can Pandora bring crashed Linux services up like Monit? The manual says about some watchdog mode, but it seems it only present in Windows agent?

* How Pandora integrates syslog events? I seen some mention of this feature, but couldn’t find how to configure it?

* Is the hardware/software inventory plugin only available in enterprise version?

* Is it possible to get server temperature (CPU, motherboard, HD, etc…)?

* Is it possible to compare multiple servers history (like Ganglia allows)?

* How Tentacle protocol works – is it UDP based like Ganglia / CollectD, or something else?

* Last question about configuration – is it possible to remotely install the Pandora agent on multiple machines? Or one needs to install it via RPM and change the server IP in the configuration file?

Thanks in advance!