Pandora FMS Licenses

Pandora FMS license includes technical support, updates (patches and new versions), access to the full library of modules and online plugins with more than 500 plugins, access to the manufacturer’s knowledge base, with hundreds of technical articles, troubleshooting and specific tips, and the ONE code, so you could access the source code and modify it according to your needs.

Open is the community version, free but without support or certain features oriented to the corporate world.

SaaS is a ONE version offered as SaaS (Monitoring as a Service) hosted and maintained by Pandora FMS, accessible over the internet.

NMS is a version oriented to network monitoring, without other features such as user experience, inventory, log collection, etc.

RMM is a version oriented to remote monitoring and management) tailored specifically for IT service providers or managed service providers (MSPs).

ONE is the full-featured version as intended by Pandora FMS.

Corporate is a full-featured version tailored specifically to the clients needs, often requiring special development and custom solutions not found in the normal ONE version.

An agent is any monitored device, in a physical environment such as a router, switch or server or in a virtualized environment a Host would be each Virtual Machine with a unique IP address.

Yes. The minimum license for sale with technical support is 100 agents.

In the perpetual license version you can decide not to renew the license, so you will not have support, access to new versions or patches. You also won’t have access to the Enterprise module library or knowledge base, but the software will still run at full capacity.

In the pay-as-you-go version if payment is not made, the software stops working.

An agent can be an information container capable of monitoring 50 or 1000 different devices if necessary. For this reason, there is no limit to devices or modules monitored by a single agent.

This way of working will be very useful when you have to monitor network equipment because, for example, a 24-port switch can easily report on a hundred modules. It will also make your job considerably easier when you need to monitor backbone routers, by being able to monitor hundreds of modules with the same agent.

By having a licensing model based on the number of agents and not the number of metrics monitored, you may think it’s a good idea to monitor all your devices with a single agent. This could be very successful if you only need to check very simple things, such as the connectivity of your devices.

However, if you need to see more information, it would be better to group fewer devices in each agent. That way, the information will be much more orderly and structured, and the experience will be more agile, fast and practical, which will make your work a lot easier.

Yes, an agent can be a Router, Switch, Access Point, Firewall, NAS, etc.

If it is a redundant installation (active/passive) you will only have to pay one license. However, if the installation is multisite (export server, metaconsole, active/active cluster) you will need a license for each separate server.

Pandora FMS is a traditional on-premise software product, that is, it acquires a license and installs and maintains it in its own facilities. It has licensing on a “perpetual” basis and also by “subscription”.

We also have a “pay-as-you-go” usage model as a cloud service that we call MaaS (Monitoring as a Service) in which case we provide the software, the server and keep it updated and managed by the client. More information about MaaS.