Pandora FMS

This article is about the OS monitoring system. For the handheld computer / game console, see Pandora (console).
Pandora FMS
Original author(s)Sancho Lerena Urrea [1]
Developer(s)Pandora FMS
Initial releaseOctober 14, 2004 (2004-10-14)
Stable release
7.0 NG 772 LTS "Renaissance"[2] / June 20, 2023; 16 months ago (2023-06-20)
Repository
Written inPerl, PHP, C++, JavaScript
Operating systemLinux, Windows
Available inEnglish, Spanish, Japanese, Russian, Chinese, Portuguese, Italian, Polish, German, French, Arabic
TypeNetwork monitoring, System monitoring
LicenseGNU General Public License or proprietary EULA
Websitepandorafms.com

Pandora FMS (for Pandora Flexible Monitoring System) is software for monitoring computer networks.[3] Pandora FMS allows monitoring in a visual way the status and performance of several parameters from different operating systems, servers, applications and hardware systems such as firewalls, proxies, databases, web servers or routers.

Pandora FMS can be deployed in almost any operating system. It features remote monitoring (WMI, SNMP, TCP, UDP, ICMP, HTTP...) and it can also use agents. An agent is available for each platform. It can also monitor hardware systems with a TCP/IP stack, such as load balancers, routers, network switches, printers or firewalls.

Pandora FMS has several servers that process and get information from different sources, using WMI for gathering remote Windows information, a predictive server, a plug-in server which makes complex user-defined network tests, an advanced export server to replicate data between different sites of Pandora FMS, a network discovery server, and an SNMP Trap console.

Released under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Pandora FMS is free software. At first the project was hosted on SourceForge.net, from where it has been downloaded over one million times,[4] and selected the “Staff Pick” Project of the Month, June 2016,[5] and elected “Community Choice” Project of the Month, November 2017.[6]

  1. ^ "Home". Sancho Lerena. Retrieved 29 August 2023.
  2. ^ "Pandora FMS NG (7.x) released versions". Pandora FMS. 2023-08-20. Retrieved 2023-08-29. Here on you can see the full version note list of all Pandora FMS NG (7.x) released versions. In version notes, we describe through a summary their changes and also name each and every one of them for better comprehension.
  3. ^ Cottrel, Less (19 September 2017). "Network Monitoring Tools". Network Monitoring Platforms (NMPs). slac.stanford.edu. Retrieved 19 September 2017.
  4. ^ "Pandora FMS - Download Statistics". SourceForge.net. 30 November 2018. Archived from the original (html) on 30 November 2018. Retrieved 30 November 2018. Downloads 1,086,185 2014-08-30 to 2018-11-30 Countries Top: US, at 34% Operating Systems Top: Other, at 59%
  5. ^ "June 2016, "Staff Pick" Project of the Month – Pandora FMS". SourceForge.net. 3 June 2016. Archived from the original (html) on 3 June 2016. Retrieved 30 November 2018. For our June "Staff Pick" Project of the Month, we selected Pandora FMS, a flexible monitoring system ready for big environments. Sancho Lerena and Axel Amigo, the people behind the project shared some thoughts about the project's history, purpose, and direction.
  6. ^ "November 2017, "Community Choice" Project of the Month – Pandora FMS". SourceForge.net. 1 November 2017. Archived from the original (html) on 1 November 2017. Retrieved 20 November 2018. Pandora FMS was previously selected "Staff Pick" Project of the Month in June of 2016 where the Pandora team spoke about the project's developments and direction. Recently we caught up with project founder Sancho Lerena to find out how the project has been doing since then.