Pandora:Changes 1.3
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Pandora FMS Console 1.3
- New main view (tactical).
- New group view (faster, more usable for operators).
- New visual console. Allows to create custom hierarchical views with graphical components.
- Whole console graphical redesign. This includes tab navigation and other important changes for usability and better layout.
- New custom graph maker, allows to join in the same graph items from any agent in the same graph.
- New report builder. It manage reports with different componentes (SLA, Graph, Event report, max, min, avg. values, etc).
- Improved incident support (could be generated from Recon Server also)
- Site news, to get production sites up to date for working teams.
- New logo ! :-)
- All graphs are generated now from special version of Pear ImageGraph (redistributed with Pandora FMS). No more jpgraph dependencies.
- Support for new Pandora FMS recon server, able to manage network sweep with unlimited sensors. New hosts are detected and monitored inmediatly.
- Editor for new network components items. Network Components are predefined network modules that administrator could use to define more quickly the monitorization schema.
- Editor for new network templates. This is a kind of predefined "meta agent", composed by many network components. An agent could be assigned to a network template and inherit all defined modules as its own. Also new hosts found with Pandora Recon Server could be assigned to a network template.
- Hosts could have more than IP address now.
- Pandora FMS now supports different templates (using CSS).
- Big performance improvement in parallel work with console thanks to an improvement in session management.
- Big performance improvement in all graphic generation because a rewrite of core graphical functions.
- Many improvements in graphical system.
- Alerts now support text alerting using regular expressions.
- Alerts now supports time limits (from time to time).
- Fully integrated upgrade tool to upgrade from 1.2 version.
- Able to manual validate alerts from console. This returns to "green" status for alert, and generate an event trace in event viewer (validated by current user).
Pandora FMS Agents
- More support for HP-UX (August 2007).
- Added option to renice pandora progress (only Unix/Linux agents).
- Added option to have a warm*up time in startup phase (only Unix/Linux agents).
- Added option to setup a user defined codepage (only Unix/Linux agents).
- Added option to define file copy method (ftp, ssh, local) (only Unix/Linux agents).
- Added installer for textmode installation (only Unix/Linux agents).
- Better debug.
- Fixed important stability problems (Windows only) from 1.2 version.
- Support for custom server port in SSH (only Unix/Linux agents).
- Added FTP support to windows agent and unix agents.
- Better installer for Windows.
Pandora FMS Server
- New Recon Server to detect new systems and begin monitoring them.
- Upgraded Network Server, now works with more threads, this improves the performance A LOT compared with 1.2 version.
- New code thread-safe for all networking core.
- ICMP Proc checks makes several ping checks (defined by user) before consider target is down.
- Alerts expired/out of timegap/recovered are displayed in event viewer and set to green status automatically.
Pandora FMS Database
- Tested on MySQL clustering enviroments.
- Specific performance hints for Pandora FMS.
- Great performance improvement on graphs.
- Better database management, it purges non initialized modules and malformed modules.
Pandora FMS (whole project)
- Support for RPM packaging system (SuSe, Fedora, Redhat).
- Support for DEB packaging system (Debian, Ubuntu).
