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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 co...
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...
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 importan...
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...
Creating a recognition task
In the side menu go to the Management → Discovery → Host&Devices section. Click on the Net Scan button, this will allow you to create a discovery task. It will create the task as follows: You will have to modify only the network range to be scanned, in th...
Checking the detected systems
Wait until the entire network has been detected. When you are finished, access the agent detail view (left side menu Operation → Monitoring → Views → Agent detail) to view all detected systems. You will be able to see several systems that have been cor...
Network traffic on interface
For this it is imperative that SNMP is configured on the remote device. This generally needs to be enabled and with a minimum configuration that allows data to be queried. The SNMP devices allow you to configure which IP addresses can make queries and with whi...
Packet loss in the network
Remote plugins are user-defined checks that use a script or program that has been deployed on the Pandora FMS server, so that it can be used for monitoring, expanding the set of things it can do. In this section we will add a remote plugin preconfigured in Pan...
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 a machine. Although it can be a very complex check (simulating that user and password credentials are sent, that an email is sent, etc.) it will be simplified by ...
Introduction
Of course, more advanced work can be done such as alerts on events, correlation, etc. The first alert to do is to send an email when one of the machines that are already being monitored (with the Host alive module) goes offline. Pandora FMS alerts are compose...
Server Configuration
For the correct operation of the command email you must configure in the file pandora_server.conf a mail server that allows to make relay. In the example, the mail server located in our local host (localhost) using Postfix . You must put the IP address of the...
Alert Configuration
As indicated above, alerts in Pandora FMS are composed of 3 parts: Command, Action and Template. You can find these options in the section Alerts. In order to configure this alert you only need to modify the action so you will use the option Alert actions. ...
Assign alert to module
Navigate to the agent edition where you have the module defined and click on the alerts tab: Now add the module (Host Alive), the template (Critical Condition) and the action ( Mail to admin ). Click on the button Add alert. Once added, you will be able ...
Agent Installation
The first step is to download the MS Windows® agent from: https://sourceforge.net/projects/pandora/files/Pandora%20FMS%207.0NG/759/Windows/ At this link you can choose between 32-bit or 64-bit agent. Once the agent is downloaded, run it by double-clicking o...
Checking the information returned by the agent
Once the MS Windows agent has been started® after its installation, it is time to check what this agent is reporting. To do this, you must know the name under which this agent is going to report. By default the agent is created with the name of the host. You c...
Creation of map 1 (Parent)
On this first map, the status of several agents distributed on a world map is added. This can be done manually, one by one, or through the Wizard. To facilitate the creation of the same we are going to use the Wizard in the example. The first thing we have to...
Creation of map 2 (Child map)
In the second map you will create an element indicating the status of one of the main agents, attached to it all the given modules. You will visualize in this map also a graphic of the FreeRAM module of the same agent. The first step is to create the new map ...
Linking of both maps
In the previous steps we created the two maps. In this step indicate how to click on the element located on Spain on the map World Map, opens directly the map Spain Map. To do so, open the map World Map, in edit mode, by double-clicking on the item 192.168.70...
Advanced module properties
Navigate to the agent's módulos view. Select the desired module to configure. Later open the tab a Advanced Options and proceed to configure the desired fields. In the next two sections you will see how to configure the fields Unit and Interval and 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 and reports, making it easier to interpret the data displayed to the user. For example having as unit %: Placeúese inside the Unit field and type the desired unit...