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WHAT IS IT?
 WHAT IS PANDORA FMS ?

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 WHAT IS PANDORA FMS ?

First position !

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 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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 WHAT IS PANDORA FMS ?

Is an OpenSource There are thousands Big corporations like

project, under the of companies using it, Telefnica 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

 HISTORY

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WHO USES IT ?
 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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INTRODUCTION
 HOW IT WORKS ?
NOTIFICATION

COLLECTION CONSOLIDATION

PRESENTATION

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 ARCHITECTURE

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 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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COLLECTION
 WHAT DOESIT MONITOR ?
OPERATING SYSTEM
Linux, Solaris, AIX, HP/UX,
Windows, FreeBSD, OpenBSD,
NetBSD, MacOS...
VIRTUALIZATION
Vmware, Xen
APPLICATIONS
SAP, Tomcat, Weblogic, IIS,
JBoss, Exchange, WebSphere,
Oracle, ERP...
HARDWARE SENSORS
Temperature, humidity, flood,
power, etc.
NETWORKING
Any manufacturer: Cisco, Juniper,
3com, Teldat, Huawei, D-Link.
DATABASES
Oracle, DB2, SQL Server, Mysql
SUPPORTED PROTOCOLS
SNMP, HTTP, LDAP, Ping, TCP,
WMI, RADIUS, DNS, SQL queries
WEB USER EXPERIENCE
Latency, connection, login process,
sessions, buying process, etc.

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 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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 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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CONSOLIDATION
 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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 PRESENTATION

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 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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NOTIFICATION
 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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OPERATION
 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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 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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WHY PANDORA FMS ?
 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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 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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 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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 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 administracin de Pandora FMS

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TECHNOLOGY
 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 APIs

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 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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 AGENT PLUGINS

It permits complex performance testing

and add it in an autonomous way, easy
to integrate.

You can use the monitoring scrpts

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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 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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 REQUIREMENTS

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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.

 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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