Pandora FMS

infobox software



caption = Pandora FMS Agent General Information
developer = Ártica ST
latest_release_version = 2.0
latest_release_date = Sep. 3th 2008
operating_system = Linux
license = GNU General Public License
website = http://pandorafms.org/

Pandora FMS (for "Pandora Flexible Monitoring System") is software solution for monitoring. Pandora FMS allows monitoring in a visual way the status and performance of several parameters from different operating systems, servers, applications and hardware systems such as firewalls, proxies, databases, web servers or routers.

Pandora FMS can be deployed in almost any operating system. It has remote monitoring (WMI, SNMP, TCP. UDP, ICMP, HTTP...) and using agents. An agent is available for each platform. It can also monitor hardware systems with a TCP/IP stack, as load 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 plugin server who makes complex user-defined network tests, an advanced export server to replicate data between different sites of Pandora FMS, a network discovery server and a SNMP Trap console.

Released under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Pandora FMS is free software.

Components

Pandora Servers and SNMP Console

In Pandora FMS architecture servers are the core of the system, as they are the recipients of bundles of information and the generators of monitoring alerts. It's possible to have different modular configurations for the servers: several servers for very big systems or a single server. Servers are developed in Perl and work under any platform with the required modules. Its native platform is Linux. Servers are also responsible of inserting the gathered data into Pandora's database. It's possible to have several Pandora Servers connected to a single Database.

Web console

Pandora's user interface allows to manage the monitoring system and to operate with it. It is developed in PHP and leans on a Data Base and a Web Server, being able to work in any platform: Linux, Solaris, Microsoft Windows, AIX and others. Several Web Consoles can be deployed in the same system.

Agents

They are daemons or services that can monitor any numeric parameter, boolean status, strings or numerical incremental data and/or condition. They can be developed in any language (as Shellscript, WSH, Perl or C). They run on any type of platform (Microsoft, AIX, Solaris, Linux, IPSO, Mac OS or FreeBSD), also SAP, because the agents can communicate with the Pandora FMS Servers to send data in XML using SSH, FTP, NFS, Tentacle (protocol) or any data transfer mean.

Database

This is the core module of Pandora. Here resides all the information of the system. For example, all data gathered by agents, configuration defined by administrator, events, incidents, audit info, etc is stored in the database At this moment, only MySQL database is supported. More databases system support is planned to be added in the future.

Releases

Stable releases

Pandora FMS is stable since 1.0 version.

VMWare Image

Pandora Team created an Ubuntu Server 8.04 VMware test image with final version of Pandora FMS 2.0. This is a VMWare Workstation 5.x image and could be used with free VMWare Player and free VMWare Server.

It has all the Pandora FMS components installed and MySQL, Apache2 and PHP with all modules dependencies resolved, including Pear Graph for reporting.

There is also a Linux Pandora FMS Agent 2.0 running on this machine.

User/Passwords in this system are:

* Unprivileged user is "pandora" with password "pandora"
* OS "root" user has password "pandora"
* MySQL "root" user has password "pandora"
* Pandora FMS console has user "admin" and password "pandora"

This image can be downloaded from [http://downloads.sourceforge.net/pandora/PandoraFMS2.0_vmware_beta1.zip?use_mirror=osdn Sourceforge] .

See also

* Data logging

External links

* [http://pandorafms.org Pandora FMS home page]