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June 2021

Do you know what VMWare is and how to include it in monitoring?

Before we dive into how to monitor virtualized environments with VMWare, let’s clarify a couple of concepts for those who are less into the subject, starting withWhat is VMWare?. VMWare is a software product development company, mostly related to virtualization, and more recently to containerization, although this is beyond the scope of this article. Today, we are going to focus on monitoring virtualized environments with VMWare.

Create Google Chat alerts with Pandora FMS

We are going to learn how to configure a CLI connector for Google Chat webhooks and use them in Pandora alerts. We will show how to create a Google Chat room where we will receive the alerts, enable a webhook to make possible the communication between Pandora FMS and the GChat room and configure Pandora GChat CLI and an alert in our Pandora FMS console.

Pandora FMS and Nagios back in the ring. The final comparison

NagiosXI is the proprietary heir of one of the best-known tools in IT to monitor systems without a license, that is, as a free product. As a free product, Nagios (without XI) is a product that is almost 20 years old and suffers from many shortcomings, but for many years it has been the standard among “free” products and it fulfilled its role in those cases where the budget was quite short or the features needed were just a few.

10 reasons to change your monitoring software

Cuando se habla de cambiar de software, no sé por qué, me viene a la mente la compra de música. Bueno, yo soy de los de antes: vinilos, cassettes, a principios de siglo los CD y DVD… Claro, ahora es diferente, actualmente existe el pago por suscripción, que reproduce en línea, y donde generalmente se ofrece el álbum de turno o paquetes completos con muchas estrellas musicales…

How to receive alerts in Slack with Pandora FMS

We are going to learn how to configure a CLI connector for Slack webhooks and use them in Pandora alerts. We will show how to create an app in Slack and link it to the channel where we will receive the alerts, enable a webhook to make possible the communication between Pandora FMS and the Slack channel and configure Pandora Slack CLI and an alert in our Pandora FMS console.

Google Authenticator and Pandora FMS, defend yourself from cyberattacks

For a long time, the Internet has been an easily accessible place for most people around the world, full of information, fun, and in general, it is an almost indispensable tool for most companies, if not all, and very useful in many other areas, such as education, administration, etc. But, since evil is a latent quality in the human being, this useful tool has also become a double-edged sword.