Pandora FMS version roadmap

Pandora FMS. Free Monitoring System (Development branch) 2.0

We are currently started to work in the future of Pandora FMS. This is our roadmap for 2.x branch.

• Completely rewrite Pandora FMS server components in C language to increase it's performance and be one of the most reliable monitoring applications available.
• This version comes with important changes between comunication between agents and console, allowing to manage in a centralized way, all the agents remotely.
• Pandora FMS will implement a own communications protocol: "tentacle". This allow to forget FTP/SSH and use an easy way to communicate server with agents using a secure way (SSL), based on X.509 and static passwords in the agents.
• Pandora FMS will implement multi-module alert system, with combined conditions to raise alerts and notification when alerts get's recovered.
• Pandora FMS will implement planned downtime management.
• Centralized network checks based on programmable plugins
• Anomaly detector and predition modules, able to predict in the future performance of modules.
• Metaconsole, a way to scalate/export/replicate data to another Pandora FMS servers.
• Pandora FMS have the same functionality that 1.x branch, but adding a great leap in performance and high availability. We have established a limit to monitor up to 10,000 elements.
• Pandora FMS will implement data post processing.
• Pandora FMS will have a automapper tool to draw maps from current data without define each item.
• Agents will have hierarchy based on a three structure.
• Asyncronous data will be managed from new agents.
• Image data will be managed in Pandora FMS.
• Full powered log agents will work with standards agents, reporting filtered data to Pandora FMS.
• A metaconsole will allow Pandora FMS to manage another Pandora FMS "sub" sites.
• A tentacle-base Proxy for gathering data from agents using intermediate hosts will be possible.
• A new component: Plugin Server allow to code your own complex checking (like SSL checking, WEB Semantic-testing or own protocol checks) and managed from console, in the same way that remote modules are.
• Event console will be rewritten, allowing users to group events, mark for ignore, and much more!.
• Pandora FMS (network) servers will auto-balance it's load between available servers.
• PDF Reporting will be available to render custom reports.
• Custom graphs will have more modes like plan, stacked, bar or radar graphs.

Pandora FMS 2.0 will be launched at 3Q of 2008.

Pandora FMS. Free Monitoring System. (Stable branch) 1.3.1

This is the branch development that continues 1.3.x series. It implements the following items:

• Better SNMP management.
• Autodetection and exploration of new systems, networks and devices. It will only the beggining, and will be improved in next versions.
• New graphical console for reviewing all data in a -real- graphical view using dynamic HTML and personalized views.
• New reporting engine for graphics (Pear Image::Graph replacing JpGraph).
• Instalation Wizard for all components, including agents (Unix & Windows), Console and Server. This also include RPM packages for all components.
• Improved scalability for Pandora FMS server. Up to 2500 network modules are now supported on a single server (about 1000 agents).
• Realtime reporting.
• FTP support for Windows and unix agents.
• Better performance for database / graphic / reporting.

Pandora FMS. Free Monitoring System, version (1.2)

• New agent for Microsoft Windows operating systems, written in C++ (GNU C++) from scratch with a custom implementation of SSH, also using GNU libraries for XML. This new agent is now the official one for Windows plattforms (Win2000, WinXP, Win2003).
• Better management of SNMP. Added a SNMP browser.
• Improved graphics: Much more graphics for manage the architecture.
• Improved usability.
• Added network subsystem: now is possible to define network modules, using directly the console, and this modules run from server, quering remote hosts, using SNMP, ICMP and TCP/UDP queries.
• Added more languages for Console
• Improve alert behaviour: defining a minimum of events to trigger any alert.
• On line HTML help by context.