Pandora FMS Changelog

What's new in Pandora FMS 4.0

Oct 21, 2011
  • New interactive graphic network maps (Enterprise).
  • New Enterprise network servers, that are up to 50 times faster that the OpenSource ones (SNMP e ICMP) (Enterprise).
  • Support for Oracle and PostgreSQL.
  • Event correlationa and event reception console correlation (Enterprise).
  • Synthetic modules: generating new data through arithmetic operation between other ones that already exist. (Enterprise).
  • Native integration with Integria IMS (http://integriaims.com) for incident
  • management and for incident management from the Pandora FMS interface.
  • Extension and improvement of reports (SLA graphics, TOP n, different wizards, etc).
  • Extension to the cron extension in order to could register manual processes by the admin user.
  • Extended ACL System, based on policies to “shape” agent data (Enterprise).
  • Improvements in the Recon Server performance (10 times faster).
  • New plugins of VmWare 4.1 centralized monitoring (Enterprise) and of Amazon EC2 (OpenSource).
  • Agent Broker mode (delegate monitoring) and Tentacle proxy mode (to use the agents as intermediate nodes).
  • Skins System for the interface complete customization by user (Enteprise).
  • Global option (CLI and console), deactivating all the alerts of an specific policy.
  • Other Improvements and Functionalities:
  • To add macro _POLICY_ to the alerts (Enterprise).
  • Improvements to manage the traps with regular expresions and create messages in real time using data from the traps.
  • Policy application queue (Enterprise).
  • Improvements in the metaconsole: View management (visual console), dashboard, and specific reports for the metaconsole, that could see all data from all pandoras (Enterprise).
  • Policy application from metaconsole (Enterprise).
  • Metaconsole: Feature to move an agent (or several) from one pandora to another (Enterprise).
  • Agent: Posibility of specifing preconditions to the execution of one module.
  • Inventory with Pandora with historic (to store all the “photos” not only the last one) (Enterprise).

New in Pandora FMS 3.2 (Jan 7, 2011)

  • A new Web console for smartphones.
  • Better dataserver performance.
  • More powerful software agents (cron modules, conditional execution, concurrent checks, value propagation and more).
  • Custom charts from SQL queries in reports.
  • IPv6 support for ICMP and SNMP modules.
  • Creation of specific tabs for extensions and a new extension manager.
  • Support for group hierarchy and new topology maps.
  • Automatic capture of Agent IP address.
  • Sound alerts in the web console.
  • New ReconScript mode for recon server, to use custom scripts to create dynamic monitoring information. A SNMP reconscript is the first application.
  • Added fullscreen mode in GIS Maps.
  • Vastly improved massive operations and command line interface.
  • Special version of software agent for WinNT4.
  • Implemented UDP server for AGENT REFRESH operation on Unix Agents.
  • Added the "standby" mode to the alerts, integrated in the new flow of event management.