Depth details about Pandora FMS highlighs and features.

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2. WHAT IS IT?

3. WHAT IS PANDORA FMS ?
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4. WHAT IS PANDORA FMS ?
First position !
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5. WHAT IS PANDORA FMS ?
Pandora FMS is an all-purpose monitoring system.
WHAT IT DOES WHERE IT WORKS
Gathers information from any Applications and operating systems.
kind of logic system.
Network and communications.
Generates customized alerts
and notifications Business processes (BPM).
Shows graphs, reports, etc User experience on WEB
and monitoring maps in a environments (browser automation),
WEB environment.
Electrical comsumption,
temperature monitoring, external
sensors, etc.
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6. WHAT IS PANDORA FMS ?
Is an OpenSource There are thousands Big corporations like
project, under the of companies using it, Telefónica choose
leadership of and more than Pandora FMS to
Artica, a Spanish replace other
450.000 downloads*
monitoring solutions
company founded It is used all around like BMC Patrol, HP
in 2005. the world in more OVO, IMB Tivoli or
than 75 different NetlQ, achieving very
countries. significant savings.
6 * Source: Sourceforge.net, March 2012

7. HISTORY
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8. WHO USES IT ?

9. WHO USES IT ?
Spain Mexico
Spain UK Japan Mexico Brazil USA Germany Dennmark
Chile Argentina New Zealand Canada Ecuador Belgium Colombia Congo
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10. INTRODUCTION

11. HOW IT WORKS ?
NOTIFICATION
COLLECTION CONSOLIDATION
PRESENTATION
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12. ARCHITECTURE
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13. IT GLOBAL MONITORING
Availability management
Fault management in infraestructure, ITIL
metric calculations (MTTR, MTBF), recovery
actions on problems.
Service Level Agreement
BPM, business metrics, SLA, OLA's and KPI's.
Different kind of views and realtime
dashboards.
Capacity management
Fault and performance history monitoring,
custom scheduled reports, trend prediction,
and projection reporting for capacity
planning.
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14. COLLECTION

15. WHAT DOESIT MONITOR ?
OPERATING SYSTEM NETWORKING
Linux, Solaris, AIX, HP/UX, Any manufacturer: Cisco, Juniper,
Windows, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, 3com, Teldat, Huawei, D-Link.
NetBSD, MacOS...
DATABASES
VIRTUALIZATION Oracle, DB2, SQL Server, Mysql…
Vmware, Xen
SUPPORTED PROTOCOLS
APPLICATIONS
SNMP, HTTP, LDAP, Ping, TCP,
SAP, Tomcat, Weblogic, IIS, WMI, RADIUS, DNS, SQL queries…
JBoss, Exchange, WebSphere,
Oracle, ERP...
WEB USER EXPERIENCE
HARDWARE SENSORS Latency, connection, login process,
Temperature, humidity, flood, sessions, buying process, etc.
power, etc.
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16. AGENT BASED MONITORING
HA supported in the agents.
Agents can store data in a local
buffer on connections failure.
It can execute commands in
response to a failure.
Lightweight agents for any OS.
It has pre-conditions previous to
monitoring.
Scheduled monitoring.
Remote agent management.
Agents can collect inventory
information (services, software…)
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17. REMOTE MONITORING
NETWORKING SERVERS
• Full support for SNMP, TCP, ICMP, • HTTP, LDAP, Radius, WMI, SSH,
etc etc
• Automated network sweep.
• Remote sensors and drones. SENSORS
• Topolological maps
• NOC sensors for temperature.
WEB • Electrical consumption
• Able to integrate with several
• Step by step navigation. devices in the market.
• Download time, user experience.
• Content validation.
• API Webservices checking.
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18. CONSOLIDATION

19. CONSOLIDATION
Normalization of all the data
collected
A high volume historical database
capable of storing several years of
data.
Full High Availability Architecture
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20. PRESENTATION
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21. PRESENTATION
REPORTS SERVICE DIAGRAMS
• Trends.
• Inventory. TOPOLOGICAL MAPS
• Top-N.
• SLA. TREE VIEWS
• ITIL Metrics.
• Graphs.
EVENT CONSOLE
• Regular sumissions in PDF
EVERYTHING 100% WEB WYSIWYG.
DASHBOARDS
VISUAL CONSOLE
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22. NOTIFICATION

23. NOTIFICATION
Event
correlation
SMS and e-mail
RSS events feed alerts, integration
with secondary
applications, etc.
Corrective command
Realtime sound
execution
console
Integration with
Tivoli & HP OVO
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24. OPERATION

25. OPERATION
100% web based multiuser, multi-client access.
LDAP and AD integration.
Policy and standard template monitoring.
Command line tools (CLI).
API WEB interface for third party integration.
HA in all components.
Event reader for Android.
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26. METACONSOLE OPERATION
The meta-console implements a
way to allocate the monitoring
among different servers
Each server has its own
database, console and server,
and needless to say its own
agents.
We are able to control
thousands of dispositives in this
way.
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27. WHY PANDORA FMS ?

28. ADVANTAGES
Same tool for
different
environments and
technologies
Users and
customers who have Extreme scalability.
brought experience
and maturity to the (Thousands of servers)
project.
Faster time
Capability to develop evaluation
new features on (time-to-value)
demand.
Opensource !
Very low TCO (Total A large number of
Cost of Owenership) features with the best
compared to other cost-benefit ratio.
similar solutions
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29. ADVANTAGES
VERSUS CLASSIC COMPETITORS VERSUS NEW COMPETITORS
(HP, IBM, CA, Microsoft) ( OpenCore, OpenSource)
Better cost-benefit More powerful crossplatform
agents
Greater flexibility and
integration Bigger number of features
Faster start-up Extensive international
support
Larger user community
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30. LICENCE AND VERSIONS
OPEN SOURCE LICENCE
 Free.
 Unsupported, help from community.
 Reduced features option for large environments.
ENTERPRISE LICENCE
 Annual fee.
 License based on the number of monitored
devices.
 Professional support, Enterprise features
and certified updates.
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31. OFFICIAL TRAINING
There is a formal training program for Pandora FMS:
PAT: Pandora FMS Administration.
PAE: Pandora FMS Expert engineering.
* The official certificates are issued only by Artica.
PAT: Curso de administración de Pandora FMS
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32. TECHNOLOGY

33. PANDORA FMS TECHNOLOGY
Lightweight application server Experimental support for Oracle
(Apache/PHP5). and PostgreSQL
WEB Interface based on AJAX Modular design on Perl5.
and HTML5
Agent plugins developed in
WEB Integration based on REST VBScript, PowerShell, Perl,
Web Services. Python and Shellscript
MySQL5 for Database backend. Lightweight agents for
Microsoft Windows and Unix
platforms. In Microsoft, we use
native API’s
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34. INFORMATION GATHERING
Pandora FMS does not use lots of
abstraction layers witch slow down the
information extration from the host
system.
It uses native commands and tools to
obtain information directly from the
system
It uses Windows native low level API to
get the information directly if possible.
Unix agent developed on PERL.
Windows agent coded in C++
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35. AGENT PLUGINS
• It permits complex performance testing
and add it in an autonomous way, easy
to integrate.
• You can use the monitoring scrìpts
already in place and use it in Pandora
FMS.
• Plugins are interchangeable and
reusable between different agents.
• Plugins support any languages: Scripting
(Perl, VBS, Powershell, Python), Java
and C/C++.
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36. EASY TO INTEGRATE
There are many ways to integrate with Pandora FMS, by using different
mechanisms:
Command Line Tool to administer Pandora FMS, for a better
script integration.
Direct integration with suites like IBM Tivoli or HP OpenView.
Easy to use WEB API Rest.
Export / Import information using CSV format.
URL Actions in the GUI allows contextual integrations.
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37. REQUIREMENTS
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38. MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS
It works in basic servers or multiprocessor servers, with 100% hardware
usage.
Parallel and multiple server processing. It scales by adding more servers if
necessary.
Average server: : 4GB RAM, CPU Multicore, for 2.000 agents.
Server works under Linux, or BSD.

39. SYSTEMS SUPPORTED
SERVER: AGENTS:
• RedHat Enterprise Server, • NT4, Windows 2000, XP, 2003,
CenOS and Fedora. Vista, 2008, 7 (32/64 bits).
• SLES, Open Suse • HP-UX 11 or higher.
• Debian / Ubuntu Linux • AIX 4.3 or higher.
• Solaris • Solaris 6 or higher.
• FreeBSD • Linux (Any distro)
• NetBSD,FreeBSD, OpenBSD.
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