Pandora FMS is an open source monitoring application whose origin dates back to 2004. It integrates in the same application the monitoring of different infrastructure elements: networks, applications, servers, web, and other specific data sources such as logs, WMI, Netflow or SNMP traps.
With more than 50,000 customer installations across the five continents, Pandora FMS is an out-of-the-box monitoring solution: profitable and scalable, covering most infrastructure deployment options.
Pandora FMS gives you the agility to find and solve problems quickly, scaling them so they can be derived from any source, on-premise, multi cloud or both of them mixed. Now you have that capability across your entire IT stack and analytics to find any problem, even the ones that are hard to find.
Support
For community support you can visit our forums at https://pandorafms.com/community/
Pandora FMS has a “commercial” solution, with different features, oriented to companies that do not want to spend time using open source solutions, but closed packaged products, with periodic updates and professional support. Its name is Pandora FMS Enterprise, and you can find more information about it at https://pandorafms.com.
How to install Pandora FMS
Installing Pandora FMS from sources is a complex task. Please read the extras/deploy/INSTALL.md file follow all the steps described for a proper installation.
What is Pandora FMS?
Pandora FMS is an open source monitoring application whose origin dates back to 2004. It integrates in the same application the monitoring of different infrastructure elements: networks, applications, servers, web, and other specific data sources such as logs, WMI, Netflow or SNMP traps.
It allows you to supervise systems and applications of all types, through remote monitoring or with software agents installed on the equipment to be monitored.
Pandora FMS monitors your hardware, software, your multilayer system and, of course, your operating system. Pandora FMS can detect if a network interface is down or the movement of the market value of any new NASDAQ technology. If desired, Pandora FMS can send an SMS message when your system or application fails or when the value of Tesla’s stock drops below $180. Pandora FMS will adapt to your systems and requirements, because it has been designed to be open, modular, multiplatform and easy to customize.
Pandora FMS can be deployed over any OS, with specific agents for each platform. There are agents for Windows (2000, XP, 2003), GNU/Linux, Solaris, HP-UX, BSD, AIX, IPSO and OpenWRT. Pandora FMS not only gathers information through its agents, but it can also monitor any hardware system with TCP/IP connectivity, such as load balancing systems, routers, switches or printers, through SNMP and TCP/ICMP checks.
Pandora FMS is a monitoring tool that not only measures if a parameter is right or wrong. Pandora FMS can quantify the state (right or wrong), or store a value (numeric or alphanumeric) for months if necessary. Pandora FMS can measure performances, compare values among different systems and set alarms over thresholds. Pandora FMS works against a MySQL Database so it can generate reports, statistics, SLA and measure anything.
Main features
- Network monitoring
- Server monitoring (using agents for Windows, Linux, Mac, BSD and legacy Unix)
- SSH/WMI remote monitorin.
- Graphical reporting, based on SQL backend
- SLA, and ITIL KPI metrics on reporting
- Status & Performance monitoring
- GIS tracking and viewing
- Inventory management (Local and remote)
- Netflow support
- Centralized log collection.
- User defined visual console screens and Dashboards WYSIWYG
- Very high capacity (Thousands of devices)
- Multitenant, several levels of ACL management.