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| Original author(s) | Sancho Lerena Urrea[1] |
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| Developer(s) | Pandora FMS |
| Initial release | October 14, 2004 (2004-10-14) |
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| Written in | Perl,PHP,C++,JavaScript |
| Operating system | Linux,Windows |
| Available in | English, Spanish, Japanese, Russian, Chinese, Portuguese, Italian, Polish, German, French, Arabic |
| Type | Network monitoring,System monitoring |
| License | GNU General Public License or proprietaryEULA |
| Website | pandorafms.com |
Pandora FMS (forPandora Flexible Monitoring System) is software for monitoring computer networks.[3] Pandora FMS allows monitoring in a visual way the status and performance of several parameters from differentoperating systems, servers, applications and hardware systems such asfirewalls,proxies,databases,web servers orrouters.
Pandora FMS can be deployed in almost anyoperating system. It features remote monitoring (WMI, SNMP, TCP, UDP, ICMP, HTTP...) and it can also useagents. An agent is available for each platform. It can also monitor hardware systems with aTCP/IP stack, such asload balancers, routers,network switches,printers or firewalls.
Pandora FMS has several servers that process and get information from different sources, using WMI for gathering remote Windows information, a predictive server, a plug-in server which makes complex user-defined network tests, an advanced export server to replicate data between different sites of Pandora FMS, a network discovery server, and anSNMP Trap console.
Released under the terms of theGNU General Public License, Pandora FMS isfree software. At first the project was hosted onSourceForge.net, from where it has been downloaded over one million times,[4] and selected the “Staff Pick” Project of the Month, June 2016,[5] and elected “Community Choice” Project of the Month, November 2017.[6]
In Pandora FMS architecture, servers are the core of the system because they are the recipients of bundles of information. They also generate monitoring alerts. It is possible to have different modular configurations for the servers: several servers for very big systems, or just a single server. Servers are also responsible for inserting the gathered data into Pandora's database. It is possible to have several Pandora Servers connected to a single Database. Different servers are used for different kind of monitoring: remote monitoring, WMI monitoring, SNMP and other network monitoring, inventory recollection, etc. Highly scalable (up to 2000 nodes with one single server), completely web-driven and a multitenant interface. It has a very flexible ACL system and a lot of graphical reports and user-defined control screens.[7]
Servers are developed inPerl and work on any platform that has the required modules. Pandora was originally developed for
Pandora'suser interface allows people to operate and manage the monitoring system. It is developed inPHP and depends on a database and a web server. It can work in a wide range of platforms:Linux,Solaris,Windows,AIX and others. Several web consoles can be deployed in the same system if required. Web Console has multiples choices, in exampleSNMP monitoring.
Agents aredaemons orservices that can monitor any numeric parameter, Boolean status, string or numerical incremental data and/or condition. They can be developed in any language (asShellscript,WSH,Perl orC). They run on any type of platform (Microsoft,AIX,Solaris,Linux,IPSO,Mac OS orFreeBSD), alsoSAP, because the agents can communicate with the Pandora FMS Servers to send data inXML usingSSH,FTP,NFS,Tentacle (protocol) or any data transfer means.
The database module is the core module of Pandora. All the information of the system resides here. For example, all data gathered by agents, configuration defined by administrator, events, incidents, audit info, etc. are stored in the database. At present,MySQL database andMariaDB database[8] is supported.Oracle support has been added in 6.0 release.
Pandora FMS has asoftware appliance based on a customizedCentOS Linux, installable on CD, comes ready to use (including alive CD) or ready to install to hard disk.
It have also an AMI Appliance based on Amazon AWS.
A Docker image is also available atDocker Hub.
Here on you can see the full version note list of all Pandora FMS NG (7.x) released versions. In version notes, we describe through a summary their changes and also name each and every one of them for better comprehension.
Downloads 1,086,185 2014-08-30 to 2018-11-30 Countries Top: US, at 34% Operating Systems Top: Other, at 59%
For our June "Staff Pick" Project of the Month, we selected Pandora FMS, a flexible monitoring system ready for big environments. Sancho Lerena and Axel Amigo, the people behind the project shared some thoughts about the project's history, purpose, and direction.
Pandora FMS was previously selected "Staff Pick" Project of the Month in June of 2016 where the Pandora team spoke about the project's developments and direction. Recently we caught up with project founder Sancho Lerena to find out how the project has been doing since then.
Pandora FMS is a flexible monitoring solution for your servers, networks, virtual infrastructure, and applications. It is a Free software and released under GNU General Public License.
