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Pandora FMS

Overview

What is Pandora FMS?

Pandora FMS is a flexible monitoring solution. It is presented as ideal for medium and big-sized environments with at least 100 devices. Users can monitor any device, infrastructure, application, IT as well as business processes and services. It allows business…

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Pricing

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NMS Edition

$2,990

On Premise
100 nodes

Enterprise Edition

$4,250

On Premise
100 nodes

Entry-level set up fee?

  • Setup fee required

Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Product Demos

Pandora FMS 7.xx Demo exploitation.

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Pandora FMS 742 File Manger PHP file upload + remote code execution demo (CVE-2020-7935)

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Demo Pandora FMS

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Pandora FMS Enterprise Overview | Total monitoring solution for full observability

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Metasploit Demo Meeting 2020-07-28

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Demo de Pandora FMS | Descubre la herramienta de monitorización todo-en-uno

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Product Details

What is Pandora FMS?

Pandora FMS is a flexible monitoring solution. It is presented as ideal for medium and big-sized environments with at least 100 devices. Users can monitor any device, infrastructure, application, IT as well as business processes and services. It allows business users to obtain information from their concerns in real time, visualizing the data in a direct way.

The solution boasts users among companies and organizations in more than 40 countries around the world, who according to the vendor save money by unifying all their monitoring needs in a single system.

Pandora FMS promises to integrate information islands of Mainframe, SAP, IP telephony, servers, communications or applications under a single monitoring umbrella. Pandora FMS is highly scalable (from 100 to 250,000 devices) and capable of monitoring in hybrid environments, it can access and unify all the information, regardless of where it is hosted.

Pandora FMS Features

Network Performance Monitoring Features

  • Supported: Automated network device discovery
  • Supported: Network monitoring
  • Supported: Baseline threshold calculation
  • Supported: Alerts
  • Supported: Network capacity planning
  • Supported: Packet capture analysis
  • Supported: Network mapping
  • Supported: Customizable reports
  • Supported: Wireless infrastructure monitoring
  • Supported: Hardware health monitoring

Pandora FMS Screenshots

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Pandora FMS Technical Details

Deployment TypesOn-premise
Operating SystemsWindows, Linux, Mac, HPUX, Solaris, AIX, Android
Mobile ApplicationApple iOS, Android
Supported CountriesPartners all around the world
Supported LanguagesSpanish, English, French, Japanese

Pandora FMS Customer Size Distribution

Consumers0%
Small Businesses (1-50 employees)20%
Mid-Size Companies (51-500 employees)30%
Enterprises (more than 500 employees)50%
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Community Insights

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Pandora FMS has proven to be a valuable tool for organizations in various industries, allowing users to monitor and manage a wide range of resources such as applications, network services, and software. This comprehensive platform has increased productivity within organizations by providing administrators with quick access to data and information, streamlining processes and improving efficiency. Users have also praised the system's ability to map devices to specific areas within a building, providing a single pane of glass for viewing network device, server, and VM uptimes. With instant alerts for mission-critical device downtimes, users can ensure a timely response and address issues promptly. Additionally, timed alerts for non-mission critical devices help users prioritize and resolve issues effectively. The system status and alerts feature provides constant supervision of all activities within the company, enabling proactive management. By visualizing and managing the distribution of networks effectively, Pandora FMS offers detailed maps that allow organizations to monitor a large set of applications in real-time, ensuring prompt issue detection and resolution within SLAs.

The app crash detection and user experience monitoring feature of Pandora FMS has been highly effective in detecting faults and configuration inconsistencies in websites and apps. This capability has been instrumental in maintaining optimal performance for digital platforms. Organizations have found Pandora FMS particularly beneficial when they have limited knowledge in network and server management since it handles required tasks effectively. By utilizing this platform, businesses are able to monitor critical services, meet SLAs, reduce incidents, and ensure high service quality. Prior to using Pandora FMS, many experienced a lack of visibility into incidents with critical services due to the absence of a monitoring system. Now with Pandora FMS in place, organizations are able to collect and consolidate disparate data from various sources, facilitating informed decision-making and action. The timely identification and notification of issues have significantly improved response times and enabled quick resolutions.

The user-friendly interface offered by Pandora FMS has been well-received by users as it allows individuals with basic knowledge to easily navigate and utilize the software. The monitoring tool provides comprehensive network monitoring solutions, which can be customized to meet the specific needs of each organization. Pandora FMS offers real-time visibility into system performance, customizable dashboards, flexible alerting, and detailed reports. Additionally, the platform supports monitoring devices of different brands using standard or custom protocols, ensuring flexibility and control. Users appreciate the ability to consolidate various monitoring requirements into a single solution, simplifying complexity and providing a centralized platform for decision-making.

Pandora FMS has also been recognized for its capabilities in providing high-level professional services to clients, with a proactive system that anticipates problems. It enables the timely detection and notification of infrastructure problems, facilitating prompt resolution. The software's simple interface has made it accessible to users with basic knowledge, ensuring ease of use and reducing the learning curve.

Users have found Pandora FMS to be helpful in managing networks, detecting faults, configuring devices, and analyzing hardware and software. It simplifies the complexity of monitoring and provides a centralized platform for decision-making. With its omnichannel capabilities, Pandora FMS allows for efficient customer support, meeting the needs of organizations that prioritize exceptional service quality.

Furthermore, Pandora FMS supports various infrastructure sizes and monitoring needs through its choice of the Enterprise Edition or the Community Edition. This flexibility ensures that organizations can tailor their monitoring solution according to their specific requirements. Users have appreciated having support in their own language, particularly for Spanish speakers, further enhancing their experience with the product.

Overall, Pandora FMS has proven to be a reliable and comprehensive network monitoring solution that meets diverse use cases across different industries. It offers real-time visibility, customization options, and simplified management of IT infrastructure. Users value its user-friendly interface, flexibility in monitoring capabilities, and proactive problem detection features that contribute to improved performance and efficiency within organizations.

Comprehensive and Powerful Monitoring Solution: Many users have found Pandora FMS to be a comprehensive and powerful monitoring solution that meets all of their monitoring needs. Its wide range of features, including options for cloud monitoring and network monitoring, has been highly appreciated by reviewers.

Real-Time Alerts and Notifications: The real-time alerts and notifications provided by Pandora FMS have been valued by users for their proactive identification and resolution of issues. Reviewers have noted the invaluable role these alerts play in minimizing downtime and ensuring smooth operations.

Customizable Dashboards and Reports: Pandora FMS's customizable dashboards and reports have received praise from users for providing meaningful insights and facilitating data-driven decision-making. This feature has been particularly helpful in helping teams gain actionable information from the monitored data.

Complex Implementation Process: Users have found the main implementation process for Pandora FMS to be complex and time-consuming, taking up more than a week to configure correctly. Some users have mentioned that there is no immediate manual or support available for the implementation or configuration of Pandora FMS, which can cause complications for users without prior experience with the platform.

Graphics and Dashboard Improvements: Several users have suggested that the tool could benefit from improvements in its graphics and dashboards. They also encountered communication issues with the support team, stating that their responses were often blunt or impatient.

Design Errors and Functionality Issues: Users have experienced occasional design errors and functionality issues, but they acknowledged that these problems were usually resolved promptly. They expressed a desire for phone support to quickly address any immediate issues.

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Pandora FMS, an excellent monitoring tool

Rating: 9 out of 10
October 03, 2024
Pandora FMS is the corporate monitoring system we've been using for years in our corporation. It allows us to obtain functional alerts and trend analysis for our entire IT infrastructure. Our main goals with Pandora FMS are to achieve a capable and reliable monitoring system, and a system that allows us to develop our capacity plan. Pandora FMS meets both objectives.
  • Alert management and dispatch
  • Generating charts and trends
  • Customization of dashboards
  • Integration with systems
Cons
  • The interface is not intuitive due to the number of options it has and its organization.
  • It has a free version with limitations, and another paid version. The commercial one has a quite high cost.
  • It has a certain learning curve.
I believe Pandora FMS is a solution that adapts to any type of scenario; it's useful for small businesses as well as large organizations. It more than meets the need to have a comprehensive monitoring system capable of sending alerts instantly and consulting historical data, logs, and trends. Additionally, for small businesses, the free version will be more than sufficient in most cases. And for those who do not want to deploy the service on-premise, there is an option for MaaS (Monitoring as a Service).
Network Performance Monitoring (10)
84%
8.4
Automated network device discovery
80%
8.0
Network monitoring
90%
9.0
Baseline threshold calculation
80%
8.0
Alerts
100%
10.0
Network capacity planning
80%
8.0
Packet capture analysis
80%
8.0
Network mapping
80%
8.0
Customizable reports
80%
8.0
Wireless infrastructure monitoring
80%
8.0
Hardware health monitoring
90%
9.0
  • Substantial improvement in monitoring service. Detecting alerts on time always results in economic savings.
  • Improvement in the periodic report associated with the capacity plan. The tool is indispensable in decision-making.
  • Centralization and tool savings. Pandora FMS's versatility allows centralizing several functions into a single tool.
The solution is very complete, and even includes extras such as IPAM. Deployment can be a bit unintuitive at first, but once you become familiar with the solution and thanks to its automatic deployment options it ends up being easier than it seemed. The power and options of the solution are its greatest virtue.
We considered Pandora FMS to be the solution that offered more features at a lower cost. We were particularly interested in the abundance of options available in Pandora FMS's free version and the ability to monitor practically anything in an extremely heterogeneous environment like ours. We also considered Pandora FMS for its management capabilities and the possibilities offered by its web interface.
Zimbra Email & Collaboration, Docker, Ubuntu
4
IT Staff
1
Sysadmin
  • Monitoring critical equipment
  • Managing health alerts
  • Preventing problems
  • Telegram alerts
  • IPam
No
  • Other
At the time, there were two decisive factors for choosing Pandora FMS: on the one hand, the power and possibilities of the solution, and on the other, the capabilities of the free community edition.
Broadly speaking, the solution was correct, and Pandora has turned out to be a success.
  • Implemented in-house
No
Change management was minimal
The implementation is not simple, but neither is it excessively complicated for a person accustomed to sysadmin work.
The commercial support with Pandora FMS has been correct, from the gathering of information to the receipt of quotes. Regarding the community version, the documentation resources available are correct.
We decided to stick with the free version as it met all of our functional requirements.
No
  • Automatic equipment detection
  • Alert display
  • Status and historical graphs
  • General interface
  • Manual equipment management
  • Understanding the usage methodology
Yes, but I don't use it

Pandora FMS Review

Rating: 10 out of 10
August 24, 2020
Pandora FMS allows us to get to know the problems before the clients report them. The product allowed us to change the way we work and grow in an orderly manner not only in our company but also in our clients'. It is part of the digital transformation in hybrid cloud and on-premises environments.
  • All-in-one software
  • Flexible and easy configuration
  • Multi-platform
  • Design in PERL, CCS and HTML5
Cons
  • Community version small features
Pandora FMS adjusts to the client's need, from a simple configuration of a single server to a complex scenario with high availability support without additional licensing costs.
Network Performance Monitoring (10)
88%
8.8
Automated network device discovery
100%
10.0
Network monitoring
90%
9.0
Baseline threshold calculation
70%
7.0
Alerts
100%
10.0
Network capacity planning
80%
8.0
Packet capture analysis
80%
8.0
Network mapping
80%
8.0
Customizable reports
100%
10.0
Wireless infrastructure monitoring
80%
8.0
Hardware health monitoring
100%
10.0
  • It is a tool with an appropriate cost that allows to have results in a very limited time.
  • Having a health dashboard and alerts of important business in the company is an important differential with any other monitoring solution on the market.
  • Monitoring can be adjusted to the business, considering service SLAs and adjusting the platform according to the needs of each department of the company.
Before using Pandora FMS, tests were carried out with all these tools:
  • Nagios
  • Zabbix
  • System Center Operations Manager (SCOM)
  • IBM Tivoli
  • PRTG
  • SolarWinds
Pandora FMS allows simple customization by making adjustments to text files, developing agent add-ons without the need to be a programmer, there is no scenario where we could not take data and save it in PandoraFMS, IoT, industrial products, and everything that any client needs to monitor.
The support team answers very quickly. They are always willing to find a solution to any need that is required by us or one of our clients.
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