Quick Start Guide ( Cloud )
Introduction
Online installation tool
If you have access to the Internet, it is recommended that you perform the installation online us...
Pandora FMS monolith environment (server/console/database)
This installation method is especially useful when the environment is hosted by cloud providers, ...
Requirements for the use of the online installation tool.
Internet access. Specific web addresses: ICMP: firefly.pandorafms.com support.pandorafms.c...
First steps
Once installed, the system should boot up and, after a few seconds, display the terminal to log i...
Enterprise license activation
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Start the Enterprise server
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Detecting local network systems
To start monitoring with Pandora FMS, nothing better than detecting which devices are nearby and ...
Add a remote check on an already monitored system
Now that the systems are detected, add some monitoring modules. Add the following monitoring: ...
Network traffic on interface
For this it is imperative that SNMP is configured on the remote device. This generally needs to b...
Packet loss in the network
Remote plugins are user-defined checks that use a script or program that has been deployed on the...
Monitoring a TCP network service
In this case we are going to add a monitoring to verify that an SMTP (email) service is active on...
Add a problem alert
In Pandora FMS the most basic way to make alerts is to assign an alert to a specific module.
Introduction
Of course, more advanced work can be done such as alerts on events, correlation, etc. The first a...
Server Configuration
For the correct operation of the command email you must configure in the file pandora_server.conf...
Alert Configuration
As indicated above, alerts in Pandora FMS are composed of 3 parts: Command, Action and Template. ...
Assign alert to module
Navigate to the agent edition where you have the module defined and click on the alerts tab: N...
Monitoring a Windows server with a software agent
In Pandora FMS there are two types of monitoring: - Remote (the one that is done from the Pand...
Create a visual screen with monitoring details
One of the visualization options offered by Pandora FMS are the Visual Consoles. The Visual Conso...
Creation of map 1 (Parent)
On this first map, the status of several agents distributed on a world map is added. This can be ...
Creation of map 2 (Child map)
In the second map you will create an element indicating the status of one of the main agents, att...
Linking of both maps
In the previous steps we created the two maps. In this step indicate how to click on the element ...
Adjust monitoring
In this section we will see how to configure some of the advanced options of a module (thresholds...
Advanced module properties
Navigate to the agent's módulos view. Select the desired module to configure. Later open th...
Configuration of the units of a module
Allows defining the units of the data obtained in a module. This unit will be included in graphs ...
Setting the interval of a module
Configuring or modifying the module interval defines how often the module runs. This affects remo...
Configuration of the thresholds of a module
In this section you can configure the thresholds Warning and Critical for a module;module with th...
Advanced threshold parameters
The box Inverse interval is used to define non-contiguous ranges. In this example, the module wil...
Other advanced parameters
The configuration of a module is very flexible, with dozens of possibilities. In the Pandora FMS ...