Pandora FMS, an excellent monitoring tool
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
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.
Pros
- 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.
Return on Investment
- 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.
Usability
Alternatives Considered
Centreon, Opsview Monitor, Nagios Core and Icinga
Other Software Used
Zimbra Email & Collaboration, Docker, Ubuntu
