For Japanese users!

Because the 3.1 RC1 had been released, using the Pandora FMS is becoming
easy in Japanese environment. So, I introduce some Japanese information.

A Japanese forum had been created.
(Thanks to Sancho.)

http://openideas.info/smf/index.php/board,30.0.html

This forum is Japanese-only forum.
Anything about the Pandora FMS can be posted in Japanese.

I’ve also created a Japanese community site. It provides Japanese
supplementary information for Japanese users.

http://pandorafms.jp/

I’ve put some helpful information to use the Pandora FMS.
eg.) There are some better settings for Japanese environment I experienced.

Plus, I’ve put Japanese documents that translation is in progress.
Each sentences of them are shown in both Japanese and English.
English sentences are from English documents.
I’m glad if some Japanese people can cooperate with me to check or do the
translation to Japanese.

This is a major upgrade from 3.0 version and includes a lot of new features. This version is a Release-Candidate, similar to a beta version, but with months of testing done.

This includes a vmWare/VirtualBox image, RPM packages, DEB packages and of course, source tarballs and the Windows Agent Installer. We’ve also updated our user guide with a stunning 420 page manual in PDF.

More information about this release at our website at http://pandorafms.org

To get downloads go directly to Sourceforge:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/pandora/files/Pandora%20FMS%203.1/RC1/

Whats new in Pandora FMS 3.1 ?

New general features

* GIS for Agent Geopositioning using GPS information embedded into de XML or by manual placement. Pandora FMS render the information in realtime in a new map-view, using real maps from Google, OpenStreetMaps or your own maps.

* Complete rewrite of the visual console editor. New code from scratch, producing a new, pure Javascript code much more usable than the old one, and fully WYSIWYG.

* New reporting tool. Added 4 ITIL KPI’s, a custom SQL report (based on SQL entered by user), a used-defined data report (based on serialized data in module information), better event/alert listings. Added a wizard for the enterprise. Added a custom page design, incluiding header and footer for enterprise customers. Updated PDF reporting with a fancy design.

* New API system to manage Pandora FMS from a webservice interface (first version).

* New CLI (Command Line Interface) to manage PAndora FMS from the console (first version).

* Added timezone (global) support for the GUI. This will show the data timestamps according your timezone. Planned to implement timezone also per each user.

* Support for new Log4x information type (logs).

* New Enterprise ACL system, to implement low-level access to each page/section of Pandora FMS console. This allow to define what exactly can view/do a user, even the own administrator.

* New alert type: onChange. Implemented to be able to launch an alert on a data value change (string or numeric).

* New metaconsole mode. This allow to operate several -independent- Pandora FMS from a single console, reviewing it’s data on a centralized, summarized way, allowing also a simple “delegated” authentication. With this model, you can have an “array” of Pandora Fms, without limits of managed devices (thousands).

* New feature (Enterprise): Service monitoring, based on a weighted ponderation of a list of individual monitors. This will allow to create new monitors based on the dynamic sum of a list of items depending of it’s status.

* Added support for SNMP v3.

* New translation (Japanese) for Help files, and console texts for 3.0/3.1

* Dashboard improvement, new widgets.

* Cascade protecion improvement: now it checks on any parent level, using the whole hierarchy to avoid firing alerts if any previous element has already fired a critical alert.

WEB Console

* New diagnostic screen in console (Setup -> Diagnostic info).

* Split setup options in several new setup sub-screens. (General, Visualization, Performance, GIS, Metaconsola, ACL Enterprise, etc).

* Added new mode for collect statistics not in real time, improving performance. This needs several important modifications in console and server. New fields and tables added. This allow to have up to 5000 agents in the same system, without performance problems viewing tactical views as group view, server or tactical

* New title styles applied to all pages in WEB console.

* New group screen.

* Modified tactical view: Events show only pending, and over the server status. Added global health bar.

* Added support for OpenStreetmaps and Googlestret maps in Pandora FMS to render GIS information.

* Added support for batch policy install in console using a new Javascript control.

* New Database Main info screen, about performance and important values of Database, including last time of maintance script.

* Added support to actions and templates to edit/show it’s group, in order to implement efectively ACL.

* New module group editor

* Partial rewrite of old code for visualization/edition of alerts, solving several problems from the past, mostly on performance issues.

* Group “All/Any” is now better managed.

Servers

* Events are now “auto-validated” when a more important event on the same module is displayed or event disapear. This allow to have a “event view” with current events, not historical. To see historical, just select “all events” instead non-validated events.

* Modified main loop to do internal tasks more eficiently.

* Pandora DB improvement to do several tasks progresively, using many steps, avoiding database locks.

* Added several new indexes and removed some: Important performance increase.

* Added support for GeoIP in Recon server.

* New self-monitoring option for the server. Server itself acts like a embedded agent providing useful information about performance and status.

* Pandora_db.pl: Added support to new purge parameters for event, audits, snmp traps, string data and gis data. Added new section to clean orphaned information (using an application -implemented database referencial integrity model).

Agents

* Middle layer for OS information. This new abstraction allow unix agent to provide new module interface to collect directly filesystem information as well as process information.

* User defined timeout for module execution in Windows agents.

* Full agent support for running in Windows 2008 R2, Vista and Windows7, both 32bit and 64 bit.

* New agent plugin support for Windows plattform.

In sourceforge, the numeration on bugs system for a project is a unique id. Is the total number of bugs in sourceforge. Today, in Pandora FMS project, a bug has been created with Id 3000000:

Congratulations Pandora FMS!!

After this senseless shock, we must to return to the hard work

See in this video some of the new GIS features in the new version of Pandora FMS. All GIS features are OpenSource.

Hi.

I play with a nice toy called Gource. It’s an aplication to generate animations, more or less organic, about the life of a project. It’s the same that Codeswarm, althought Codeswarm is focused to developer and the generated animations seems as fireworks instead the Gource’s animation that seems to be a plant growth.

Well, the steps (there are in the wiki the same information but this is a summary.) to generate animation video are:

• Install software: download from download project page, execute to cmake for generate the Makefile. And finally type make .
• Convert SVN to GIT: You must install git-svn plugin (as apt-get install git-svn), and before you type “git svn init –stdlayout https://pandora.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/pandora repo.git” for pandora SVN for example. This operation is for small time, but the next command “git svn fetch” is slow, it’s running one hour at least.
• Execute Gource and generate AVI Simply type “./gource -800×600 repo.git/ –max-files 99999 –disable-progress –stop-at-end -s 0.25 –user-scale 2 –highlight-all-users –output-ppm-stream - | ffmpeg -y -b 3000K -r 60 -f image2pipe -vcodec ppm -i - -vcodec libx264 gource.mp4″. Ok I tell the meaning of huge line.
  • -800×600 This is a resolution.
  • repo.git/ This is a directory of SVN (convert into git) copy.
  • –max-files 99999 This is a limit of files to show simultaneously in the animation.
  • –disable-progress This is a flag to disable the load bar in the begining.
  • –stop-at-end This is a flag to close the aplication when it will be in the end.
  • -s 0.25 This is a number of seconds animation per real day in the life SVN.
  • –user-scale 2 This is a scale of icons or avatar of developers in the animation.
  • –highlight-all-users This is a flag to show all time the name of developer.
  • –output-ppm-stream - This is a flag to send the output to avi converter.
  • ffmpeg -y -b 3000K -r 60 -f image2pipe -vcodec ppm -i - -vcodec libx264 gource.mp4 I don’t know the mean to ffmpeg params because you can read the ffmpeg manual.

And now you wait half hour to generate the animation.

Our friends from Japan has made a superb work translating the console, help files and the website on native Japanese. Thanks to Junichi and his team, Japanese one of the main languages supported in Pandora FMS, together english and spanish.

Several users reported that they want a more “flexible” ACL system, based not on groups of “things they can do”, based on every page a profile could see (and operate), item by item, page by page.

Current ACL model is based on “unix style” role/action/group/user (4 items), new system will allow to define per profile, which pages (defined one by one or by “groups”) has user access. This will allow for example, to let a user view only “Group” view, and “Detailed” agent view, skipping pages as “Alert view” or “Monitor view”, grouped already in Pandora FMS classic ACL system as “AR” (Agent Read privileges).

This even allow to restrict administration per page. Very useful to let specific low-level operations allowed.

Both models are “paralel” and compatible, and this is an Enteprise feature only ;-). Classic ACL system will continue to exist, and provides as now, a very easy ACL system for Pandora FMS.

I have started to create manpages, first tentacle_server and tentacle_client, then pandora_server and Pandora::Core.pm more will follow

So next time you are alone with Pandora FMS without Internet connection you can relay again in the good old man

I’ve created a new page in our wiki at openideas.info

It’s purpose is to put there all features we’re finishing now, for the next 3.1
version, only features and enhancements, not bugfixes. This will be very
useful to show people our progress and to have a “new things” from the last
version.

Please keep it updated !

Hi.

I remember in the film Enemy of the state (in spanish “Enemigo público”) the computer systems that it was showing a Will Smith running across the city (but he wasn’t playing parkour).

This is the trailer of film for refreshing your mind:

Well, Pandora system is near near to make this thing…more or less . We use to develop the javascript free library OpenLayers in the Console.

The next video you can see the demo screencast of early versión of GIS: