But does this mean that Pandora FMS is also into Lynis security? Well, its specialty is different… but yes, of course, it reaches everything covered by monitoring. In fact, flexibility is inherent to its name: FMS means Flexible Monitoring System and it is a tool with which you can save yourself many headaches, as well as tailor it to your needs!
The American magazine “Fortune” specializes in global banking, business and finance… What does it have to do with monitoring? Well, in one of its annual lists, the Fortune 100 (the largest companies on the planet), 92 companies use Splunk software… If we compare by volume of money, yes, Splunk would be the best software and that’s where this article would end.
As mentioned in the last release 740, even updates will focus on fixing bugs and odd ones on developing new features and improvements that help all users. In this release 741, a new Discovery integration has been added to monitor SAP centrally and remotely, a system to report bugs and suggestions, in addition to Omnishell, the first step of Pandora FMS in the world of automation and IT infrastructure management.
Some of the most common questions we face daily are related to our future plans or the roadmap of Pandora FMS. Thanks to our customers and users, we know you expect us to integrate increasingly more features into the Pandora FMS interface and architecture. But it is not just about improving what we already have to make it more efficient, user-friendly and fast, but about going beyond, much further.
Surely you know what a backup is, right? It is what we could also call a “safety copy“. Free backups are precisely that, softwares through which you can create backup copies of your data, to save them on drives such as external hard drives, flash drives, network devices and others. What are they for? Simply put, to restore the original information that you had, of course, after having lost it by accident in some misfortune or careless incident.
14 years old, our beloved monitoring software is already 14 years old! Pandora FMS enters adolescence and does it with more friends than acne, with more achievements than voice changes and with more future ideas than problems at school. 14 years which are celebrated quickly with a cake and which fade, even faster, in the wake of congratulations on the day of its birthday. However, those years, so easy to count, carry weight and are remembered, with love and consequence.
The issue of network baseline arose quite some time ago. Everything started from the understanding that networks are not static entities, but are a set of elements that change over time. It was also understood that networks are not only made up of physical and tangible elements, such as a router or a switch, but we must also have more abstract elements, such as the traffic pattern over a WAN link, for example.
In this 740 release, the top priority has been solving certain software failures. From now on, even releases are intended to solve bugs and improve the existing features, whereas odd ones focus on extending the feature range, with the purpose of increasingly refining Pandora FMS.
In particular, I liked very much the article that our colleague Sara Martin wrote in Pandora FMS blog about crisis management in information technology, these are the steps: Legend: “Jack’s Lantern (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jack-o-lantern.svg) This article starts from point number five: when after a certain time of recovery the crisis has been solved and becomes a post mortem incident. This word comes from the Latin language and it means “after death”.
When we are faced with the challenge of hybrid cloud monitoring, the golden dream of a single monitoring platform is reawakened in us. It would be ideal to have a tool that would allow us to see in a single screenshot what is happening throughout our platform, including those resources that we have decided to establish in the cloud, in other words, it should not discriminate between private and public networks.
