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Pandora FMS : The Free Monitoring System (v1.3)
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2007-08-20 17:32:27 +02:00
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http://pandora.sourceforge.net
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What is Pandora FMS
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Pandora watches your systems and applications, and allows you to know the status of any element of those systems. Pandora could detect a
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network interface down, a defacement in your website, a memory leak in one of your server app, or the movement of any value of the NASDAQ
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new technology market. If you want, Pandora could send out SMS message when your systems fails... or when Google's value drop below US$ 33.
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Pandora will adjust, like an octopus, to your systems and requirements, because has been designed to be open, modular, multiplattform and
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easy to customize and use, all integrated into a scalable and distributed architecture.
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Pandora runs on any operating system, with specific agents for each platform gathering data and sending it to a server, it has specific
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agents for GNU/Linux, AIX, Solaris, HP-UX, BSD/IPSO, and Windows 2000, XP and 2003.
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Pandora can also monitor any kind of TCP/IP service, without the need to install agents, and monitor network systems such as load
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balancers, routers, switches, operating systems, applications, or simply printers if you need. Pandora also supports SNMP for collecting
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data and for receiving traps.
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A few examples of common resources monitored by Pandora could be processor load, disk and memory usage, running processes, log files,
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environmental factors such as temperature, or application values like strings contained in web pages or any possible way to collect data in
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an automatic way.
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Pandora FMS Features
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* Lightweigth agents. No need to install adicional software.
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* Also could use network to collect data on remote systems.
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* High availability for each component.
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* Escalable architecture: no liminitation on number of servers you can setup for the same enviroment.
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* Internal detection on Network Servers in case of failure, automatic takeover of secondary servers.
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* Stores all data for many weeks or months
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* Support for implementing redundant and distributed monitoring servers.
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* Data is stored in a relational database (MySQL).
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* Automatic database optimization for size, using interpolation and compression algorithms.
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* Integrated alert systems: send mails, execute scripts, send SMS, or simply write to syslog are a few examples.
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* Integrated graphical reporting system for any kind of collected data.
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* SNMP Trap reception with Realtime Console.
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* Granularity of accesses and user profiles for each group and each user.
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* Integrated internal auditing for any operation.
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* Alert filtering to avoid false positives.
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* Event system with user validation for operation in teams.
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* Integrated incident system with flows and different profiles.
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* Any collected value can be displayed as graph or data table.
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* Alerts can be triggered any kind of event, in many ways.
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* WebConsole on line HTML contextual help.
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* Integrated DB management: purge and DB compaction.
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* Mass configuration/alert manager to copy and distribute agent-module and/or agents/alerts setup to other agents.
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* Profiles could be personalized using up to eight security attributes without limitation on groups or profiles.
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* Filters for collected data to avoid bad data.
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Install
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Please visit our online documentation site or download install guides at http://pandora.sourceforge.net
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What do I need?
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Perl 5.8, Some Perl modules, MySQL4x or higher, PHP5, and some PHP Modules. See the Installation Documentation or go to
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http://pandora.sourceforge.net
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License
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The project is distributed under the GPL License v2 or later.
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2007-08-20 17:32:27 +02:00
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Copyright (C) 2004-2007 Pandora FMS development team
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