[TOOL] Pandora - Distributed Multirole Monitoring System

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  Pandora - Distributed Multirole Monitoring System
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SUMMARY



DETAILS

Pandora is a tool that allows to analyze in a visual way status and 
performance of several parameters from different Operating Systems, 
servers, applications and hardware systems as Firewalls, Proxies, Data 
Bases, Web Servers, Routers  All integrated to an open and distributed 
architecture.

Pandora can be deployed in every Operating System. You have an agent for 
every platform. Pandora can also monitor hardware systems with TCP/IP 
Stack, like load balancers, routers, switches, printers and so on.

Pandora contains four components: Pandora Server, Pandora Agents, Pandora 
Database and Pandora Web Management System (Web Console).

Pandora Server:
The server is the recipient of bundles of information and the generator of 
alerts; it's the brain of the system. We can have several servers for very 
big systems or a single server. It's developed in Perl and works under any 
platform, with the required modules. Nevertheless its "official" platform 
is Linux. It also inserts the gathered data into the Database. You can 
have several Pandora Servers connected with the same Database.

Pandora Web Console:
The Web Console allows the user to manage the system and to operate with 
it. We can have several Web Consoles in the same implantation. It is 
developed in PHP and leans on a Data Base and a Web Server, being able to 
work in any platform: Linux, Solaris, Win2000, AIX, etc.

Pandora Database:
Core module of Pandora. In this database resides all the information of 
the enterprise, for example, all data gathered by agents, all 
configuration defined by administrator, all events, incidents, audit 
info... At this moment, only MySQL DataBase is supported. More Databases 
in the future.

Pandora Agents:
The agents can monitor any numeric parameter, boolean states, strings or 
numerical incremental data and/or condition. It has a centralized 
architecture based on lightweight design for agents (shellscript, wsh, 
perl) and light agents to collect data. It supports all type of platforms 
(Microsoft, AIX, Solaris, Linux, IPSO, FreeBSD, etc) because its agents 
are completely open-source and they communicate using SSH, FTP, NFS etc. 
using an XML container to transport data.

Download Information:
The tool can be downloaded from :  
<http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=115128> 
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=115128


ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

To keep updated with the tool visit the project's homepage at:  
<http://pandoramon.sourceforge.net/> http://pandoramon.sourceforge.net/



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