Pandora FMS (for Pandora Flexible Monitoring System) is software solution for monitoring computer networks. Pandora FMS allows monitoring in a visual 
way the status and performance of several parameters from different operating systems, servers, applications and hardware systems such as firewalls, proxies, databases, web servers or routers.
Pandora FMS can be deployed in almost any operating system. It features remote monitoring (WMI, SNMP, TCP. UDP, ICMP, HTTP…) and it can also use agents. An agent isavailable for each platform. It can also monitor hardware systems with a TCP/IP stack, such as load balancers, routers, network switches, printers or firewalls.
Pandora FMS has several servers that process and get information from different sources, using WMI for gathering remote Windows information, a predictive server, a plug-in server which makes complex user-defined network tests, an advanced export server to replicate data between different sites of Pandora FMS, a network discovery server, and an SNMP Trap console.
Before to begin installing PandoraFMS is required to install Lamp first.
To Install lamp follow the instructions in this LINK
Now lets start with Pandora Console:
Download the RPM pages from the Pandroafms.org website
[pirat9@Scientific-Linux Downloads]$ ls -altr pandorafms_*
-rw-rw-r-- 1 pirat9 pirat9 7005911 May 23 21:36 pandorafms_console-3.2-1.noarch.rpm
-rw-rw-r-- 1 pirat9 pirat9 247712 May 23 21:36 pandorafms_server-3.2-2.noarch.rpm
[pirat9@Scientific-Linux Downloads]$
Now before to install pandora Console you need to install some extra packages: php-snmp php-pear php-ldap php-pear-DB xorg-x11-fonts-75dpi graphvi, as root enter the following commad:
yum install php-snmp php-pear php-ldap php-pear-DB xorg-x11-fonts-75dpi graphvi
I-install the pandora console
Now we will install the pandora console
[root@Scientific-Linux Downloads]# rpm -ivh pandorafms_console-3.2-1.noarch.rpm
Preparing... ########################################### [100%]
1:pandorafms_console ########################################### [100%]
Please, now, point your browser to http://your_IP_address/pandora_console/install.php and follow all the steps described on it.
[root@Scientific-Linux Downloads]#
Now before to begin the Gui install via the browser, we need to restart apache to activate php_ldap and php_snmp
– Change the ownership of incluse directory to 777
chmod -R 777 include
– Service httpd restart
– Now lets begin the installation via the browser
Open your favorite browser and point your it to http://your_IP_address/pandora_console/
– Click Next and accept the licence terms
– Check if everything is green
– Enter the root password of mysql admin
– The Server will create the database Pandora with generated password bellow, this password you need it to star the pandora Server
next
Now the pandora_console is installed , move or remove install.php and open http://ip/pandora_console
then login with admin:pandora
II- Install Pandora Server RPM
Before install the rpm package you need to install some dependencies first:
yum install perl-XML-Simple perl-XML-SAX perl-NetAddr-IP nmap wmic
if you have issue with wmic package please download manually wmic-4.0.0SVN-2.1.el5.centos.noarch.rpm and install with rpm -ivh
install now the pandora server rpm package
# rpm -ivh pandorafms_server-3.2-2.noarch.rpm
Note : Don’t forget to start Tentacle Server daemon if you want to receive data using tentacle
Before to start the pandora Server . add the generateed password in the console installation to /etc/pandora/pandora_server.conf
# dbpass: Database password dbpass pandora
Change pandora with your generated passowrd (wdnywysi)
– Start the server
# /etc/init.d/pandora_server start
– Start tentacle server
# /etc/init.d/tentacle_serverd start
III- Install Pandora_Agent
Pandora agent can be Worstation/laptop/Windows/Unix/Firewall /Android
Just install the agent and add it to config the Ip adress of pandora Server
# rpm -ivh pandorafms_agent_unix-3.2-1.noarch.rpm
Configure the agaent on the file /etc/pandora/pandora_agent.conf
and make the pandora Server ip
########################################
server_ip 192.168.1.131
server_path /var/spool/pandora/data_in
temporal /tmp
logfile /var/log/pandora/pandora_agent.log
###################################
Start The agent
[root@localhost Downloads]# /etc/init.d/pandora_agent_daemon start
Pandora FMS Agent is now running with PID 3479
[root@localhost Downloads]#
Now back the Server restart the Daemon and check the consol, in My case Fedora 15 is the Agent Server is Scientific Linux 6
The Server Data
The Agent Data
If you have any question or remarks, please comment the current post or post your questions on the forum. Thanks
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