Command terminal: How to do more in less time! Something that the Linux kernel inherited was the command line interface (shell): in Unix® it was called Bourne Shell (written by Mr. Stephen Bourne) and it is called Bash which stands for the Bourne-again shell, …
Code Line Counter: language statistics In this blog we have already told you about the application programmer, but… what about the code we write? Do we have any tools that shed any light on this? Well, that’s what we’re going to talk about today, …
Get to know through an illustrated TLS how private data is protected The wise saying says that the rope always breaks at its weakest point. That is why today we will cover the subject of safe communications with an illustrated TLS connection. In a …
Datadog alternative: history, comparison and use cases Do you know the Datadog software? Datadog is also the name of the company that produces it, and here we bring it in a comparison with Pandora FMS. First of all we want to tell you that …
Cloud Backup Cost: Things to Keep in Mind Before You Buy A backup is a set of files that are mirrors or exact images of their originals at any given time. They are generally compressed to save space both in storage and transport. They …
Wifi monitoring, power and wireless network range Although since 1985 the federal government of the United States of America provided the radio bands (frequencies) to be used for our daily use, it was not until 1999 when the brand Wi-Fi® was registered, which means …
What is Grafana and how can we use it within the monitoring field? Previously in Pandora FMS we briefly mentioned Grafana and in this occasion we present you: What is Grafana? What does Grafana do? That’s why we invite you to stay! What is …
Microsoft SCOM, component for monitoring. Here we go! Microsoft SCOM is an advertised software for Microsoft Windows® administration, but today we will show you that its base rests on well known monitoring techniques. Just to be clear, we emphasize the term in bold: Microsoft …
Web page monitoring: Tools to extract values from it Pandora FMS and web page monitoring Among my multiple occupations is also contributing to edit Wikipedia, and there is a wonderful article about Pandora FMS where it is stated that we can do a Web …
Windows Management Instrumentation in monitoring Pandora FMS features include decentralized monitoring, which is based on several standards and/or protocols of common and open use (SNMP v1 and v2 -v3 from version 7.0 NG 727-, ICMP and WMI). In this article we will talk about …
Searching for the Perfect Software or the Fewest Possible Bugs As we know, here in Pandora FMS our task is monitoring, always in a flexible way, and which consists, in a few words, in verifying that everything goes well. In a perfect world monitoring …
Light monitoring with Elastic Metricbeat: an alternative vision Since Pandora FMS version 7.0 NG 712, thanks to the integration with Elastic, we have drastically improved the system of storage and visualization of records or logs, which allows us to increase the growth and speed …
Industrial Monitoring Offers Audit of Manufacturing Operations The simplest machine invented by mankind is the wheel. Practically all civilizations have used it and together with fire we dare to affirm that it is the basis of civilization. Many other machineries use it and it …
11 Free Server Monitoring Tools April 7, 1969. This date marks the beginning of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) Request for Comments (RFC), which in its RFC 1 defined the Interface Message Processor (IMP) and laid the foundation for the computer world as …
Caddy Web Server. Monitoring of new HTTP/2 plus HTTPS As we all know, Pandora FMS allows the monitoring of practically any device or application. Let’s talk about web content servers. Even the very popular applications or “apps”, made for the Android operating system of …
Engine X: alternate web server and its handmade monitoring Nginx (Engine X) is present in at least 22% of domains (as of May 2018), in second place due to its ability to deal with ten thousand or more connections. Now, if we already have …
Immutable Infrastructure. Learn all about it here Programming requires special knowledge and dedication. Being a good programmer also requires valuable skills; all this makes the foundation quite solid and it is the starting point for great programs and, who knows, we may even produce …
Vagrant File: Working with virtual IDE’s An Integrated Development Environment is like the personal office of every software programmer, because we have all the components in order to focus on the task. Today everything is oriented towards web applications and in a previous article …
HP Operations Manager: office suite for monitoring We have talked about reviews of legendary software in the area of monitoring, such as the colossus IBM® Tivoli® Netcool®. With equal pleasure, and at the request of the editorial team of this blog, today we bring …
Linux Certifications: a practical guide and a brief overview In this globalized world, where speed and immediacy of response have been imposed as a rule, the truth is that we enjoy a flow of bytes per second very well delimited and studied. In the …
Meet the new guy: BASHware and its use in the WSL Antecedents In this blog we published last year, an interesting insight of the penguin’s OS in the field of proprietary software, specifically in Microsoft® Windows®. Redmond’s company had just finished its beta phase …
Certification Authority Authorization (CAA). How does it work? The Certification Authority Authorization is an additional specification or standard that brings extra security confirmation for our web domains. In this article we will describe, in general terms, its origin, how it works and recommendations in …
Martian Packets: The concept and relationship with Monitoring Such a weird name, Martians Packets, was coined in the RFC 1812 norm and it talks about Martian Directions (contained, of course, in a Martian Packets In the last century, the possibility of finding life on …
Ansible Community: architecture, considerations and installation We’ve mentioned this before: “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication” (Leonardo da Vinci) The Ansible Collective encompasses the handling of the ACS in a practical way! For some people when they hear the word Ansible, it may remind them …
Supervening event: The Twitter case, monitoring and encryption An event like the one that happened to Twitter on May 3, 2018, can happen to any company. Through a monitoring process? Let’s study the matter! Unexpected event: an introduction Surely you use the popular social …
Python Language: Graphing our monitoring data in GNU Benevolent Dictator For Life Chill out, we’re not here to talk about politics. Now that we have your attention, we have to clarify that Benevolent Dictator For Life is the actual title that Guido van Rossum, …
Centreon Engine: let’s look at this comparison with Pandora FMS “Centreon Engine” What is Centreon Engine? Well, Wikipedia was created for this purpose in the social sciences: there you will find the article in Spanish and French (I’m sorry, they haven’t written it yet …
Version control system, authoritarianism and freedom to code Version control is essential for the continuous development of software today: it is the basis for the continuous release and implementation of software.
Open Hardware: The Past and Present In the 1980s, Open Hardware made our society shake with the irruption of a giant: IBM® It seems that now in 2018 history will repeat itself! Recently, we wrote on the blog a short story about supercomputers, as …
Reversible Computing: Moore’s Law, and unconventional computing The so-called “Moore’s Law” is reaching the limits established since its formulation. We previously published an article on the subject, which serves as an introduction to what we are going to explain today. Let’s start from there …
Testing tools in 2018: Which one is the best? In the last decade, the term beta user has become very popular – even as a business, and in some cases it has become a job – for the beta user, which refers to the …
Course 101: Instrumentation, Software Metrics, Monitoring, Alerts Course 101 -1: Introduction Since the 1920s, higher education institutions have been using this term to describe the nomenclature of the early years of study. Here we announced some time ago our intentions to focus on tutorials, …
Software glitch, an unforeseen incident, is that possible to prevent at all? “Software glitch” was first defined in 1965 by astronaut John Glenn and his flight team as a sudden drop in voltage that caused the computers to restart. This is exactly what happened …
Pandora FMS as a Netcool Alternative Introduction to IBM® Tivoli® Netcool® IBM® Tivoli® Netcool ®is part of the “Tivoli Management Framework (TMF)”, and both belong to the wide range of products from the company known as “International Business Machines” or simply IBM®, as we …
Monitor Raspberry Pi with RPi-Monitor For many computer scientists, Raspberry Pi is a very well known device in terms of programming. They are economical, they use very little energy and are very flexible, for some people it might remind them of the description of …
Administration of Server Configuration (ASC) We must first introduce you, in a basic way, what the Administration of Server Configuration (ASC) is. We have already told you the story of Manolo, version 1.0, a very determined administrator, but poorly used by the company. Of …
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