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 is available 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.
Install the Consol
Before to start we need to Install LAMP for Fedora14 by following instructions in this post.
After LAMP is installed we can start installing the Consol
1- Download the Pandora_console tarbal, extract it and copy it to /var/www/html/
[root@unixmen-Fedora14 html]# cp -r /home/pirat9/Downloads/pandora_console/ .
[root@unixmen-Fedora14 html]# pwd
/var/www/html
[root@unixmen-Fedora14 html]# ls -ltr
total 8
drwxr-xr-x 12 root root 4096 Mar 2 13:57 pandora_console
[root@unixmen-Fedora14 html]#
You need to setup permissions to be able to write in ./include and ./attachment directory
Under root :
chmod -R 777 include/ and chmod -R 777 attachment
Now open the browser http://ip/pandora_console
Click next and check every time if something gone wrong
Check if all dependencies are installed in your system, if everything is green (See screenshot bellow) then is ok, click next
Insert database admin user and password and the database that you want to create
New database will be created and a new password will be generated for a later use in pandora server configuration, write it down and continue
After this back to your shell , move of remove install.php file and open http://ip/pandora_console and login with user admin and password pandora
Install the server
1-First : install dependencies
yum install perl-XML-SAX* perl-Tie* perl-XML-Simple* perl-IO-Socket* perl-Time-modules* perl-NetAddr-IP* perl-DateTime* perl-ExtUtils perl-DBI nmap
2-Configure pandora_server.conf
Add password and database name generated from installation of Pandora_console to /etc/pandora/pandora_server.conf
[root@unixmen-Fedora14 pandora_server]# ./pandora_server_installer --install
Output
Installing binaries and libraries
cp lib/PandoraFMS/Traceroute/PurePerl.pm blib/lib/PandoraFMS/Traceroute/PurePerl.pm
cp lib/PandoraFMS/GIS.pm blib/lib/PandoraFMS/GIS.pm
cp lib/PandoraFMS/ReconServer.pm blib/lib/PandoraFMS/ReconServer.pm
cp lib/PandoraFMS/SNMPServer.pm blib/lib/PandoraFMS/SNMPServer.pm
cp lib/PandoraFMS/Traceroute.pm blib/lib/PandoraFMS/Traceroute.pm
cp lib/PandoraFMS/PredictionServer.pm blib/lib/PandoraFMS/PredictionServer.pm
cp lib/PandoraFMS/Tools.pm blib/lib/PandoraFMS/Tools.pm
cp lib/PandoraFMS/GeoIP.pm blib/lib/PandoraFMS/GeoIP.pm
cp lib/PandoraFMS/Server.pm blib/lib/PandoraFMS/Server.pm
cp lib/PandoraFMS/Sendmail.pm blib/lib/PandoraFMS/Sendmail.pm
cp lib/PandoraFMS/ProducerConsumerServer.pm blib/lib/PandoraFMS/ProducerConsumerServer.pm
cp lib/PandoraFMS/WMIServer.pm blib/lib/PandoraFMS/WMIServer.pm
cp lib/PandoraFMS/DB.pm blib/lib/PandoraFMS/DB.pm
cp lib/PandoraFMS/Config.pm blib/lib/PandoraFMS/Config.pm
cp lib/PandoraFMS/Core.pm blib/lib/PandoraFMS/Core.pm
cp lib/PandoraFMS/PluginServer.pm blib/lib/PandoraFMS/PluginServer.pm
cp lib/PandoraFMS/NetworkServer.pm blib/lib/PandoraFMS/NetworkServer.pm
cp lib/PandoraFMS/DataServer.pm blib/lib/PandoraFMS/DataServer.pm
cp bin/pandora_exec blib/script/pandora_exec
/usr/bin/perl -MExtUtils::MY -e ‘MY->fixin(shift)’ — blib/script/pandora_exec
cp bin/pandora_server blib/script/pandora_server
/usr/bin/perl -MExtUtils::MY -e ‘MY->fixin(shift)’ — blib/script/pandora_server
Manifying blib/man3/PandoraFMS::Traceroute.3pm
Manifying blib/man3/PandoraFMS::Tools.3pm
Manifying blib/man3/PandoraFMS::GeoIP.3pm
Manifying blib/man3/PandoraFMS::Core.3pm
Manifying blib/man3/PandoraFMS::Traceroute::PurePerl.3pm
Manifying blib/man3/PandoraFMS::GIS.3pm
Manifying blib/man3/PandoraFMS::Sendmail.3pm
Installing /usr/lib/perl5/PandoraFMS/DataServer.pm
Installing /usr/lib/perl5/PandoraFMS/SNMPServer.pm
Installing /usr/lib/perl5/PandoraFMS/Server.pm
Installing /usr/lib/perl5/PandoraFMS/Traceroute.pm
Installing /usr/lib/perl5/PandoraFMS/Sendmail.pm
Installing /usr/lib/perl5/PandoraFMS/Tools.pm
Installing /usr/lib/perl5/PandoraFMS/WMIServer.pm
Installing /usr/lib/perl5/PandoraFMS/PluginServer.pm
Installing /usr/lib/perl5/PandoraFMS/DB.pm
Installing /usr/lib/perl5/PandoraFMS/ReconServer.pm
Installing /usr/lib/perl5/PandoraFMS/Config.pm
Installing /usr/lib/perl5/PandoraFMS/PredictionServer.pm
Installing /usr/lib/perl5/PandoraFMS/NetworkServer.pm
Installing /usr/lib/perl5/PandoraFMS/GIS.pm
Installing /usr/lib/perl5/PandoraFMS/ProducerConsumerServer.pm
Installing /usr/lib/perl5/PandoraFMS/GeoIP.pm
Installing /usr/lib/perl5/PandoraFMS/Core.pm
Installing /usr/lib/perl5/PandoraFMS/Traceroute/PurePerl.pm
Installing /usr/local/share/man/man3/PandoraFMS::Traceroute.3pm
Installing /usr/local/share/man/man3/PandoraFMS::Traceroute::PurePerl.3pm
Installing /usr/local/share/man/man3/PandoraFMS::GeoIP.3pm
Installing /usr/local/share/man/man3/PandoraFMS::Tools.3pm
Installing /usr/local/share/man/man3/PandoraFMS::Sendmail.3pm
Installing /usr/local/share/man/man3/PandoraFMS::Core.3pm
Installing /usr/local/share/man/man3/PandoraFMS::GIS.3pm
Installing /usr/local/bin/pandora_exec
Installing /usr/local/bin/pandora_server
Appending installation info to /usr/lib/perl5/perllocal.pod
Checking binaries at /usr/local/bin -> /usr/bin
Creating common Pandora FMS directories
uid=502(pandora) gid=0(root) groups=0(root)
User pandora does exist, make sure the SSH directories are correct
Giving proper permission to /var/spool/pandora
48
Creating setup directory in /etc/pandora
cp conf/pandora_server.conf /etc/pandora
Installing Pandora Server manual
Copying the daemon script into /etc/init.d/pandora_server
Linking startup script to /etc/rc.d/rc5.d
Creating logrotate.d entry for Pandora FMS log management
Installing tentacle server in /etc/rc.d/rc5.d/S80tentacle_serverd
Installing Tentacle Server manual
Creating Pandora FMS distribution directory in /usr/share/pandora_server
Creating the Cron script to run daily Pandora DB tool
Now you have to edit your /etc/pandora/pandora_server.conf file to change the database password (default is pandora) with the one set in include/config.php of your Pandora FMS Console.
After setting password you can start your Pandora FMS Server!!
Managing Pandora FMS logs with logrotate (Distro independent)
4-Start The Server from Init
As root type the following command:
/etc/init.d/pandora_server start
Install the Agent
Download The pandora agent from the website then extract . and run the install as root using the following command
./pandora_agent_installer --install
Add the agent to the server
Open the shellbox and edit /etc/pandora/pandora_agent.conf
In the configuration file add the ip adress of the server pandora fms and restart
In The Server (Fedora14) :
/etc/init.d/tentacle_serverd restart
In the Client (ubuntu 10.10)
/etc/init.d/pandora_agent_daemon start
Is done.
