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Pandora FMS (Free Monitoring System). As you know, Pandora FMS has changed its homepage.

Please go to http://pandora.sourceforge.net/en/index.php.

You can download all the new published files of Pandora FMS 1.2 from http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=155200. You can also discuss at the forum page at http://www.openideas.info about bugs, new features, agents or share tips about Pandora FMS 1.2. It has been published an "Installation Quick Guide" available at the documentation section.

If you can and want to translate Pandora Web Console to other languages, please visit the translations section.

You can browse the SVN at Sourceforge to take a look at the new version. If you want to download all the repository use the address (using your SVN client) https://svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/pandora/.

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Visit our demo site of Pandora FMS 1.2. You can login with user demo and password demo.

Introduction

Pandora FMS are a Free Software set of programs that allows to analyze in a visual way status and performance of several parameters from different Operating Systems, servers, applications and hardware systems as Firewalls, Proxies, Data Bases, Web Servers or Routers. All integrated into an open and distributed architecture.

Pandora FMS can be deployed in every Operating System. You have an agent for every platform. Pandora can monitor hardware systems with TCP/IP Stack, as load balancers, routers, switches, printers and so on.

Pandora FMS has six components: Pandora Data Server, Pandora Network Server, Pandora SNMP Console, Pandora Agents, Pandora Database and Pandora Web Management System (Web Console).

Pandora FMS Servers and SNMP Console

They are the recipient of bundles of information and the generators of alerts; they are the brain of the system. We can have several servers for very big systems or a single server. They are developed in Perl and works under any platform, with the required modules. Nevertheless its "official" platform is GNU/Linux. They also insert the gathered data into the Database. You can have several Pandora Servers connected with the same Database.

Pandora FMS Web Console

It allows to manage the system and to operate with it; it's the user interface of Pandora. We can have several Web Consoles in the same implantation. It is developed in PHP and leans on a Data Base and a Web Server, being able to work in any platform: GNU/Linux, Solaris, Win2000, AIX and others.

Pandora FMS Database

Core module of Pandora (as you can see in the architecture overview). In this database resides all the information of the enterprise, for example, all data gathered by agents, all configuration defined by administrator, all events, incidents, audit info... At this moment, only MySQL DataBase is supported. More Databases in the future.

Pandora FMS Agents

They can monitor any numeric parameter, boolean states, strings or numerical incremental data and/or condition. They have a centralized architecture based on lightweight design for agents (shellscript, wsh, perl) and light agents to collect data. They support all type of platforms (Microsoft, AIX, Solaris, GNU/Linux, IPSO, FreeBSD, etc) because the agents are completely free software, and they communicate using SSH, FTP, NFS or other good way, using an XML container to transport data.

The architecture of Pandora FMS can be graphically seen in this schema:

What do I need?

Perl, Perl Modules, MySQL, PHP, PHP Modules. See the Installation Docs.

Demo Site

There is a development demo hosted on http://artica.homelinux.com/pandora/index.php, it has only a few agents and very little bandwidth, but you can see project progress day by day ;). You can login with user "demo" and password "demo". Try it !.

Project Information

All additional information may be found on the Sourceforge project page (http://sourceforge.net/projects/pandora).
In order to improve Pandora FMS, we need some feedback. So, please, mail us to pandorainfo (at) gmail.com !!

License

The project is set under the GPL:

Copyright (C) 2004, 2006 Sancho Lerena.

Pandora is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.

GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Version 2, June 1991.