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Pandora FMS : The Free Monitoring System (v1.3)
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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
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of those systems. Pandora could detect a network interface down, a defacement in your website,
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a memory leak in one of your server app, or the movement of any value of the NASDAQ new
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technology market. If you want, Pandora could send out SMS message when your systems fails...
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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
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designed to be open, modular, multiplattform and easy to customize and use, all integrated into
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a scalable and distributed architecture.
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Pandora runs on any operating system, with specific agents for each platform gathering data and
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sending it to a server, it has specific agents for GNU/Linux, AIX, Solaris, HP-UX, BSD/IPSO,
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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
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monitor network systems such as load balancers, routers, switches, operating systems,
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applications, or simply printers if you need. Pandora also supports SNMP for collecting data
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and for receiving traps.
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A few examples of common resources monitored by Pandora could be processor load, disk and
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memory usage, running processes, log files, environmental factors such as temperature, or
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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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What do I need?
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Perl 5.8, Some Perl modules, MySQL4x or higher, PHP5, and some PHP Modules. See the
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Installation Documentation or go to http://pandora.sourceforge.net
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Install
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Please visit our online documentation site or download install guides at
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http://pandora.sourceforge.net.
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Quick install guide
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Install openssh server
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apt-get install ssh
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Download console tarball and uncompress on /tmp/pandora/pandora_console
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cd /tmp
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tar xvzf /whateveritwere/pandora_console_xxxx.tar.gz
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Install apache, php, mysql (LAMP) and some PHP5 modules:
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apt-get install libapache2-mod-php5 apache2 mysql-server php5-gd php5-mysql pear php5-snmp
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Move pandora_console to /var/www
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mv pandora_console/ /var/www
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Change owner to www-data (apache2 user)
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chown -R www-data /var/www/pandora_console/
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If you're installing your mysql, setup a root password, for example "none"
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mysqladmin password none
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Access with a browser to this machine, in my case, to 192.168.50.126
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http://192.168.50.126/pandora_console
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A webpage should show you a welcome screen to install wizard. Read carefully and press "NEXT"
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to begin installation and go to step 2.
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Module dependencies are tested here. Probably you need to cold restart your apache
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/etc/init.d/apache2 stop
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/etc/init.d/apache2 start
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Refresh your browser and you should see that now all dependencies are Ok. Let's go to step #3.
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This screen need to enter data about your database root user (or other with privileges to
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create databases, table and insert data), and where is placed your Pandora FMS setup.
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Enter mysql user and password (if you're follow this doc, step by step, should be root as user,
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none as password, and localhost as hostname), and let default values in last two boxes. Let's
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go to final step.
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This should be done and Pandora Console fully installed. Last step is delete upgrade.php,
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install.php, all *.sql files:
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rm upgrade.php
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rm install.php
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rm *.sql
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And access to your new Pandora FMS console at
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http://192.168.50.126/pandora_console/index.php
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Login with user "admin" and password "pandora"
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License
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The project is distributed under the GPL License v2 or later.
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Copyright (C) 2004-2007 Pandora FMS development team
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