Pandora FMS can monitor anything (Score 1)

Do you know Pandora FMS?. Pandora Flexible Monitoring System is a general purpose monitoring tool. It was born in 2002 at the IT department of a international finance corporation. The ultimate goal of Pandora FMS is being an adaptable platform for any organization, able to collect events of any type, generate alarms through a metric system and to represent obtained events in graphs, reports or maps. Pandora FMS can detect a network interface down, a defacement in your website, a memory leak in one of your servers applications, a delay in your website when the customer pays, or the movement of any value of the NASDAQ new technology market. Pandora FMS can show you the state of your servers, systems, applications, communications, or the sale level of your commercial team. Pandora FMS is extremely modular and decentralized. The most important component, and where everything is stored is the Database (right now only MySQL is supported). Every single component of Pandora FMS can be replicated and work under a pure HA system (Active/Passive) or under a clusterized system (Active/Active with balanced load). Pandora FMS can gather information locally with agents software or hardware: - Pandora FMS has specific agent software that runs on any operating system, GNU/Linux, AIX, Solaris, HP-UX, BSD/IPSO, and Windows 2000, XP and 2003, gathering data and sending it to a Data server. - Pandora FMS has a specific hardware agent, being able to connect any sensor to this devices. Using it, it is possible to monitor temperatures, lightness, movement, smoke, ... Pandora FMS can also gather information remotely, without installing software or hardware agents: - With the Network Server Pandora FMS can monitor any kind of service or port via TCP query, any devices via SNMP, and any communication latency or state via ICMP. - With the Plugin Server Pandora FMS can monitor any kind of system with complex code. It is compatible with Nagios Plugins. - With the WMI Server Pandora FMS can monitor any Windows via WMI. - With the Web Server Pandora FMS can monitor web applications via complex checks. There are two kind of webchecks: A check for response time and check for availability. Of course, webchecks are not just making a simple http request to say if works or not, webchecks can make fully complex web operations, like perform logins, choose a parameter from a menu, enter text into a form, expect a specific response in each step and make sure that all programmed steps are done correctly before saying âoeweb application response is OKâ. - With the Prediction Server Pandora FMS can detect trends. It implements in an statistic way a data forecast based on past data (to almost 30 days in four temporary references). - With the SNMP Console Pandora can monitor any device via SNMP traps. You can visit pandorafms.com. Bye