Pandora FMS introduction

Pandora FMS is a monitoring Open Source software. It watches your systems and applications, and allows you to know the status of any element of those systems.

Pandora FMS could detect a network interface down, a defacement in your website, a memory leak in one of your server application, or the movement of any value of the NASDAQ new technology market. Pandora FMS could send out SMS message when your systems fails... or when Google's value drop below US$ 500.


  • Detect new systems in network.
  • Checks for availability or performance.
  • Raise alerts when something goes wrong.
  • Allow to get data inside systems with its own lite agents (for almost every Operating System).
  • Allow to get data from outside, using only network probes. Including SNMP.
  • Get SNMP Traps from generic network devices.
  • Generate real time reports and graphics.
  • SLA reporting.
  • User defined graphical views.
  • Store data for months, ready to be used on reporting.
  • Real time graphs for every module.

  • High availability for each component.
  • Scalable and modular architecture.
  • Supports up to 2500 modules per server.
  • User defined alerts. Also could be used to react on incidents.
  • Integrated incident manager.
  • Integrated DB management: purge and DB compaction.
  • Multiuser, multi profile, multi group.
  • Event system with user validation for operation in teams.
  • Granularity of accesses and user profiles for each group and each user.
  • Profiles could be personalized using up to eight security attributes without limitation on groups or profiles.


Pandora FMS runs on any operating system, with specific agents for each platform, gathering data and sending it to a server, it has specific agents for GNU/Linux, AIX, Solaris, HP-UX, BSD/IPSO, and Windows 2000, XP and 2003.

Pandora FMS can also monitor any kind of TCP/IP service, without the need to install agents, and monitor network systems such as load balancers, routers, switches, operating systems, applications, or simply printers if you need. Pandora FMS also supports SNMP for collecting data and for receiving traps.

A few examples of common resources monitored by Pandora FMS could be processor load, disk and memory usage, running processes, log files, environmental factors such as temperature, or application values like strings contained in web pages or any possible way to collect data in an automatic way.