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21. Where to Look if Problems Arise?

In the face of any problem, Pandora FMS offers different tools to take measures:action:

  • Diagnostic tool: in Management → Admin tools -> Diagnostic info, it will provide you with a list of essential system information.

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  • Event viewer. In Operation → Events  View events. It will allow us to visualize all events generated in our environment and operate with them simply.

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  • EventAudit viewer:viewer. In EventsManagement -> View events, it displays all the events generated in your environment and allows working with them in a simple way.

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  • Audit viewer: In AdminAdmin Tools -> System audit log,. itIt showswill show us detailed information about the monitoring environment detailed information.environment.

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Advanced information sources

Information sources (logs)logs) where youwe maycan look for more information, errors, etc:etc.:

  • "/var/log/pandora/pandora_server.log''.log Server log file thatfile, contains very important clues. If you want more details,detail, modify the ''verbosity''"verbosity" parameter ofin the server configuration file to show more details.detail.
  • ''/var/log/pandora/pandora_server.error''.error LogServer fileuncaptured oferror notlog captured server errors. Itfile, contains traces of errors not handled by the server, they are usually badrelevant stuff.issues.
  • "/var/log/pandora/pandora_agent.log''.log Unix agent log file.
  • ''%PROGRAM_FILES%\pandora_agent\pandora_agent.log''.log MS Windows agent log file.
  • ''/var/www/html/pandora_console/log/console.log'',log Pandora FMS consoleWeb Console log file.
  • "/var/log/httpd/error_log'',error_log Apache server error log file (httpd)httpd).
  • "/var/log/messages'',messages systemSystem log file.