pandora fms - commercial presentation
DESCRIPTION
Pandora FMS a general purpose monitoring software.TRANSCRIPT
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8 Apr 2012
INDEX
HOW DOES IT
WORKS?
WHAT IS IT ?
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WHY MONITOR ?WHO USE IT ?
ADVANTAGES LICENCE
AND
VERSIONS
OFFICIAL
TRAINING
WHAT IS PANDORA FMS ?
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WHAT IS PANDORA FMS ?
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WHAT IS PANDORA FMS ?
Pandora FMS is an all-purpose monitoring system.
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WHAT IT DOES WHERE IT WORKS
Gather information from any
kind of logic system.
Generate customized alerts
and notifications
Shows graphs, reports,
monitoring maps in a WEB
environment.
Applications and operating systems.
Network and communications.
Business processes (BPM).
User experience on WEB
environments (browser automation),
Electrical comsumption,
temperature monitoring, external
sensors, etc.
WHAT IS PANDORA FMS ?
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Is an OpenSource
project, under the
leadership of
Artica, a Spanish
company founded
in 2005.
There are thousands
of companies using it,
and more than
450.000 downloads*
It is used all around
the world in more
than 75 different
countries.
Big corporations like
Telefónica choose
Pandora FMS to
replace other
monitoring solutions
like BMC Patrol, HP
OVO, IMB Tivoli or
NetlQ), achieving
very significant
savings.
* Source: Sourceforge.net, March 2012
WHO USES IT ?
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Spain Mexico
Spain UK Japan Mexico Brazil USA Germany Dennmark
Chile Argentina New Zealand Canada Ecuador Belgium Colombia Congo
HOW IT WORKS ?
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COLLECTION CONSOLIDATION
NOTIFICATION
PRESENTATION• With an agent.
• Without an agent.
• Automatic detection.
• Data normalization.
• Historical data.
• High capacity.• Reports, graphs,
trending, maps,
dashboards…
• Event console.
• Inventory.
• Service diagrams.
• User notification.
• Action commands.
WHAT IT MONITORS ?
OPERATING SYSTEM
Linux, Solaris, AIX, HP/UX, Windows, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, MacOS...
VIRTUALIZATION
Vmware, Xen
APPLICATIONS
SAP, Tomcat, Weblogic, IIS, JBoss, Exchange, WebSphere, Oracle, ERP...
HARDWARE SENSORS
Temperature, humidity, flood, power, etc.
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NETWORKING
Any manufacturer: Cisco, Juniper,
3com, Teldat, Huawei, D-Link.
DATABASES
Oracle, DB2, SQL Server, Mysql…
SUPPORTED PROTOCOLS
SNMP, HTTP, LDAP, Ping, TCP,
WMI, RADIUS, DNS, SQL queries…
WEB USER EXPERIENCE
Latency, connection, login process,
sessions, buying process, etc.
ADVANTAGES
Same tool for different
environments and technologies
Extreme scalability.
(Thousands of servers)
Faster time evaluation (time-to-
value)
Opensource !
A large number of features with the best
cost-benefit ratio.
Very low TCO (Total Cost of Owenership) compared to other
similar solutions
Capability to develop new features on
demand.
Users and customers who have brought experience and maturity to the
project.
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ADVANTAGES
VERSUS CLASSIC COMPETITORS
(HP, IBM, CA, Microsoft)
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Better cost-benefit
Greater flexibility and
integration
Faster start-up
More powerful crossplatform
agents.
Bigger number of features.
Extensive international
support.
Larger user community
VERSUS NEW COMPETITORS
( OpenCore, OpenSource)
LICENCE AND VERSIONS
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ENTERPRISE LICENCE
Annual payment.
License based on the number of monitored
devices.
Professional support, Enterprise features
and certified updates.
OPEN SOURCE LICENCE
Free.
Unsupported, help from community.
Reduced features option for large environments.
There is a formal training program for Pandora FMS:
* The official certificates are issued only by Artica.
PAT: Curso de administración de Pandora FMS
OFFICIAL TRAINING
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PAE: Pandora FMS Expert engineering.
PAT: Pandora FMS Administration.
