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Pandora FMS

9 ChatOps tips your team should adopt today

Pandora FMS is an excellent monitoring system that helps collect data, detect anomalies, and monitor devices, infrastructures, applications, and business processes. However, more than monitoring alone is needed to manage the entire incident lifecycle. ilert complements Pandora FMS by adding alerting and incident management capabilities. While Pandora FMS detects anomalies, ilert ensures that the right people are notified and can take action quickly.

Create MySQL tasks easily

Databases are a critical component of our systems and their malfunction can affect business productivity. Therefore, we must make sure that they are working correctly. PandoraFMS has a plugin that allows the remote monitoring of MySQL databases through a Discovery task, by means of this task we can obtain information about the performance and status of the database, such as the number of connections, the availability of the database, the number of queries that are being made, buffer status and cache status, among other types of information.

Continuous Improvement and Pure Excellence: Advantages of RCA in Troubleshooting

As a good technology superhero you will know that in the world of troubleshooting, there is an approach that goes beyond simply fixing superficial symptoms. We call this approach “Maximum Heroics” or Root Cause Analysis (ACR), a charming method that seeks to unravel the mysteries behind an incident. Through the RCA, the causal factors of an incident are examined, and why, how and when it happened are broken down in order to prevent it from repeating itself and ensure smooth continuity.

Discover Promox plugin

Proxmox is an open source server virtualization environment. With this plugin, and by using the API, we will be able to extract data about nodes, backups, virtual machines and existing lxc containers, as well as information related to the system storage. In this video we see how the plugin works at a manual execution level in the terminal and how to register and use it in our PandoraFMS console.

Pandora FMS announces brand unification with Pandora ITSM and Pandora RC

Pandora FMS, a leader in the Information Technology and Monitoring solutions market, is glad to announce that the unification of its brands, Integria IMS and eHorus, under the new names Pandora ITSM and Pandora RC, respectively, has been successfully implemented. Pandora ITSM, formerly known as Integria IMS, represents Pandora FMS IT Service Desk and Service Management solution.

ITSM and monitoring: A match made in IT heaven

It has been a veeeeery long time since we discussed a technical concept from an ingenious allegory. Many people send us emails asking us why, and we have to admit that… it’s true, everything is quite more fun with fantastic allegories. So be it then! At the request of our fans. Let’s talk today about ITSM and Monitoring Support through an invented event from which we can then draw a technical lesson.

New API authentication Pandora FMS

Pandora FMS external API is used to integrate third party applications with Pandora FMS and now we will be able to authenticate against it using the Bearen Token. It is a type of identification through HTTP headers that allows that each registered user in our Pandora FMS server can generate its own identifier of unique correspondence to make calls to the same API. In today's video we are going to show you how to generate these identifiers of the users of our server and how to make calls to the API with this identifier.

More modern monitoring: how telemetry and machine learning revolutionize system monitoring

It’s time, take your things and let’s move on to more modern monitoring. Relax, I know how difficult the changes are for you, but if you were able to accept the arrival of DTT and the euro, you sure got this! But first let us do a little review: Traditional system monitoring solutions rely on polling different meters, such as the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP), to retrieve data and react to it.