News and updates

Pandora FMS 1.3.1 Released

30 Apr 2008

Pandora FMS development team has released final 1.3.1 version on Sourceforge. This version comes with several new features in network server, better performance and stability and a new featured administration guide, with more than 140 pages in Spanish and English (PDF and online format). More information in Project WEB Site (http://pandora.sourceforge.net)

Pandora Development team on FOSDEM (Brussels 22-24 Feb 08)

22 Feb 2008

Pandora FMS development team will be at Brussels this weekend, at the occasion of the Fosdem 2008 celebration. We will attend to the events of Friday 22 and Sunday 24. We will be easily recognized so we will be the only ones with a t-shirt with Pandora's logo, and also because we speak Spanish. We will be very pleased to talk with any who is interested in our project.

WEB Site new languages

16 Feb 2008

With the help of some friends and Google translator :-) we have translated the main pages of our website to Russian, Chinese and French. Help needed to make a "correct" translations of that languages and to make new ones (German, Portuguese, Dutch...).

Pandora FMS 1.3.1

11 Jan 2008

We're working on the next generation of Pandora, 1.3.1 branch (stable) is a continuation of work in 1.3.x series. It is near to beta testing, and it's very stable. It implements some minor new features and solves a lot of bugs detected on previous versions. Get more information about features of next versions of Pandora FMS, including the 1.4 branch (development) take a look to our Roadmap

Pandora FMS get's international

3 Jan 2008

We're working on translations of our project main web site to french and portuguese. We also want translate to another languages like german, italian, greek, russian, japanese and chinese. If you want to help us, just email us!.

Nagios 2.x to Pandora FMS 1.3 migration guide

19 Dec 2007

There is a Nagios 2.x to Pandora FMS 1.3 migration guide that includes a helper script to help you automate the process. Try it out and help us improve it!

Artica ST is at SIMO 2007

5 Oct 2007

ArticaST, company that leads Pandora FMS development, is present at SIMO 2007, the biggest computer show in Spain. We are on stand 1B237 in hall 1.

Pandora FMS 1.3 Final version Released

16 Oct 2007

This is almost identical to last beta, and only includes two minor fixes from beta3. After four months of betatesting we think that Pandora FMS 1.3 is solid as a rock Smile. It has been tested in several enviroments and runs without problems on several Linux distributions.

Some of the new features since last version are:

• New visual console. Allows to create custom hierarchical views with graphical components.
• Whole console graphical redesign. This includes tab navigation and other important changes for usability and better layout.
• New report builder. It manage reports with different componentes (SLA, Graph, Event report, max, min, avg. values, etc).
• Big performance improvement in all graphic generation because a rewrite of core graphical functions
• New Pandora FMS recon server, able to manage network sweep with unlimited sensors. New hosts are detected and monitored inmediatly.
• Added FTP support to windows agent and unix agents.
• Alerts now support text alerting using regular expressions.

Download it here

More information in our wiki.

New features and changes coming with Pandora FMS 1.3

Pandora FMS 1.3 Beta3 Released

8 Oct 2007

Console and Server tarball packages has been uploaded to sourceforge. Beta3 for Windows Agent has been released three weeks ago, and there is no beta3 for Unix agents because there's no change from Beta2. You can download it at: Sourceforge

There is a small list of changes at: Openideas Forum

New website !

21 Sep 2007

We've upgrade our website, resulting a new site with a more professional feeling. Contents are the same, but the new aspect is a lot better ! :-)

Pandora FMS 1.3 Windows Agent Beta 3

17/Sep/2007

We have released the Beta 3 of the Windows Agent, which solves some problems with the previus release. Anyways, if you find any problem, you can report it at Openideas.

Download Pandora FMS 1.3 Beta 3 at Sourceforge.

Pandora FMS 1.3 Beta 2

30/Aug/2007

Pandora FMS 1.3 Beta 2 released! This version solves some issues found in the last version and includes the new Web Console upgrade script.
More information about Pandora FMS 1.3 Changes can be found at Openideas Wiki.
If you find any problem, you can report it at Openideas.

Download Pandora FMS 1.3 Beta 2 at Sourceforge.

Pandora FMS 1.3 Beta 1

25/Jun/2007

New Beta 1 of Pandora FMS 1.3 is released! It includes the new Pandora FMS Recon Server. If you find any problem, you can report it at Openideas.

Download Pandora FMS 1.3 Beta 1 at Sourceforge.

Pandora FMS Windows Agent 1.3 Beta

14/Jun/2007

The new 1.3 Beta Version of the Pandora FMS Windows Agent is now available. This version is basically a 1.2.1 version with some bugs fixed, we have tested it for two months and works fine for us ("Pirata" in our public demo). This version is fully compatible with Pandora FMS Server 1.2 and the forthcoming 1.3 version, so it should work fine for 90% of people.

It solves some problems in the 1.2 version, so we encourage everybody to install it and replace the 1.2 version. If you find any problem, you can report it at Openideas.

Download Pandora FMS Windows Agent 1.3 Beta 1 at Sourceforge.

New 1.3 Demo version online

25/May/2007

Some days ago we informed all of you about the new screenshots of the 1.3 new version of the console. Now, we're proud to announce that the online demo has been updated as well, take a look at

http://artica.homelinux.com/pandora
As always,
user:demo
password:demo
Enjoy Pandora FMS

New screenshots from development (v1.3)

20/May/2007

We have made a few screenshots with the new "Visual console" feature of Pandora FMS and the new console design.

http://pandora.sourceforge.net/en/index.php?sec=screenshots

New german WEB site for Pandora FMS

06/Apr/2007

Thanks to Igor Zubiaurre we have our entire web site tranlated to german. He is working also translating documentation for next version, so for next version, English, German and Spanish documentation will be available!

New Pandora FMS 1.3 screenshots

20/Mar/2007

We are involved in the development of the new Pandora FMS 1.3. We are working hard and we have made some screenshots in order to let you all know how is going to be the new Pandora FMS Console. We hope you all like it. As always, any feedback is more than welcome.

All screenshots can be seen at the Pandora FMS 1.3 screenshots section. Updated 2/Apr/2007.

Survey to know Pandora FMS usage

8/Mar/2007

Are you using PandoraFMS? Please, let us know

We have setup a small form to get user feedback about usage of Pandora FMS throughout the world. Please, it's really small, and don't waste your time, help us to know how many people are using Pandora FMS.

Pandora FMS in FOSDEM 2007

23/Feb/2007

Part of Pandora FMS team was in FOSDEM 2007. In a few days we will publish some photos of the event, included, of course, the introducing beer event :-). This is the video of the lighting talk:

http://www.openideas.info/files/fosdem2007/pandora.html

PDF presentation is also available on our WEBSite in documentation section.

New language for Pandora FMS Web Console

10/Jan/2007

Reiner Dassing has translated Pandora FMS Console to German (de). You can download this new file from the translations section or the SVN repository.

RPM packages for Pandora FMS

08/Jan/2007

Manuel Arostegui has published RPM packages for Mandriva 2006, Fedora Core 4, Fedora Core 5, Suse 9.3, Suse 10.0, Suse 10.1, SLE 10.0 and SLES 9.0. You can download the files from his personal repository.