Online installation tool

• Pandora FMS monolith environment (server/console/database)
• Requirements for the use of the online installation tool.
• First steps
• Enterprise license activation
• Start the Enterprise server

Pandora FMS monolith environment (server/console/database)

This installation method is especially useful when the environment is hosted by cloud providers, although it is not exclusive to such environments.

The term "Cloud provider" (or simply "Cloud") is used to describe the hosting of virtual machines, either exclusively or shared, at specialized providers with hardware, hypervisors and customer support web systems for configuration and management.

For any of them you can install Pandora FMS Community edition. Red Hat (RHEL) 8.x is recommended as the operating system, although it also has official support for Rocky Linux 8.x, AlmaLinux 8.x and Ubuntu server 22.04.

The minimum hardware requirements for this installation are: 1 core, 2 gigabytes of RAM and 20 gigabytes of free disk space, preferably Solid State Drive (SSD).

These requirements are the minimum installation requirements, to properly size the monitoring environment we recommend going to the minimum hardware requirements section.

 

Requirements for the use of the online installation tool.

Internet access. Specific web addresses:

• ICMP:
  • firefly.pandorafms.com
  • support.pandorafms.com
• HTTPS:
  • https://pandorafms.com
  • https://firefly.pandorafms.com/pandorafms/
  • https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-8.noarch.rpm
  • https://rpms.remirepo.net
  • https://repo.percona.com
  • http://mirror.ghettoforge.org
  • https://download.oracle.com
  • https://packages.microsoft.com
  • https://github.com/pandorafms/
• For the Enterprise version (HTTPS):
  • https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pandorafms/
  • https://pfms.me
• In addition to these URLs it is necessary to have access to the official repositories of the distribution used (RHEL / Rocky Linux / Ubuntu).

• Have curl installed (it comes by default in most distributions).

• Meet the minimum hardware requirements.

• Be a root administrator user.

• Have a compatible OS.

• In the case of using RHEL 8 it will be necessary to be previously activated with a license and subscribed to the standard repositories.

To use the online installation tool simply access the command line provided by your provider in the Cloud, with root administrator user, and ask for the installation command:

This tool can be requested through from this link for get a free trial (demo).

In addition, for the installation of Satellite server, there is also an online installer.

With this execution, the whole Pandora FMS stack will be installed, leaving a fully functional instance to start monitoring.

You can learn more in the video tutorial "Cloud installers (agents, server)".

First steps

Once installed, the system should boot up and, after a few seconds, display the terminal to log in. The first step should be to know the IP address that the system has assigned to be able to connect to the server from outside. To do this, type the following command in the terminal:

ifconfig

You can also use the command ip address show .

In the case of this screenshot, the IP address of the system is 192.168.70.158.

Once you know the IP address of the Pandora FMS system, you can access it from outside the virtual machine, which is always the most convenient. It can be done via SSH or via HTTP. Use the root password (superuser) that you established in the installation configuration (DBROOTPASS).

Open a web browser (Google Chrome® and Mozilla Firefox® are recommended) and type the following address in the address bar, consisting of the IP address (x.x.x.x) you obtained from the server:

http://x.x.x.x/pandora_console

In the above example it would be

http://192.168.70.158/pandora_console

If everything is correct, you will access to the Pandora FMS Console welcome screen, similar to this one:

Use the default credentials: user admin and password pandora/Pandor4! .

Once you have reached this point, you have a complete Pandora FMS installation ready to start using it.

Enterprise license activation

This section is for Enterprise version users only. If you would like to evaluate a demo, please contact us.

If you have licensed a Metaconsole license you can skip this step as this type of license automatically activates each associated node.

It is important not to start the daemon pandora_server with the Enterprise version of it installed, without first enabling the Enterprise version of the Console, as errors will occur.

You can also get more information in the tutorial video «How to renew Pandora FMS License online» or «offline». Once Pandora FMS has been accessed through the browser, you will be asked to enter a valid license. Click on Request new license and proceed to the next step. In this step you must fill in the contact information and the Auth key commercial department commercial department has sent you.

Proceed to the next step by clicking on Online validation:

Once this step is done, it will automatically output the license ready to validate.

Finished all the steps, the console is ready to be used.

Start the Enterprise server

This section is for Enterprise version users only. If you want to evaluate a demo, please contact us.

After activating the license, the Enterprise server must be booted. You can connect to the Pandora FMS server through a command terminal (local or remote) or through the QuickShell functionality if you access the Agent that monitors the server itself.

sudo /etc/init.d/pandora_server start 

From version NG 754 on wards you have additional options in manual startup and shutdown of High Availability (HA) Environments.

To verify its correct operation, access Pandora FMS through the browser, go to the left side menu, click on Management → Servers → Manage servers. You should see something like the following: