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Install Pandora FMS Server On

CentOS 7
by M.el Khamlichi

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Pandora FMS (Stands 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.

Scenario
In this tutorial, I am going to use two systems as mentioned below.

Pandora Server :

Operating system : CentOS 7 minimal installation

IP Address : 10.1.1.200/24

Pandora Agent:

Operating System :CentOS 6 minimal installation

IP Address : 10.1.1.121/24

Before to begin, Install LAMP stack on your Pandora Server first.

To Install lamp stack, follow the instructions in this link:

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Now lets start with Pandora Console:

Download the RPM pages from the Pandroafms.org website.

[root@mel-centos7 ~]# ls -altr

-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 28016727 Jul 1 09:37 pandorafms_console-5.1-1.noarch.rpm
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 381483 Jul 1 09:37 pandorafms_server-5.1-1.noarch.rpm

Before to install pandora Console, you need to install some extra packages:

yum install mariadb-server httpd mod_php php-gd php-mysql php-mbstring xorg-x11-fonts-misc

graphviz php-snmp php-pear php-ldap php-pear-DB xorg-x11-fonts-75dpi graphviz

1 – Install the pandora console

Now we will install the pandora console:

[root@mel-centos7 ~]# rpm -ivh pandorafms_console-5.1-1.noarch.rpm

Preparing... ################################# [100%]
Updating / installing...
1:pandorafms_console-5.1-1 warning: user pandora does not exist - using root
################################# [100%]
Please, now, point your browser to http://your_IP_address/pandora_console/install.php and f
ollow all the steps described on it.

Start apache to activate php_ldap and php_snmp

systemctl start httpd.service

Change the ownership of include directory to 777.

chmod -R 777 /var/www/html/pandora_console/include/

Add the httpd Port to the firewall:

firewall-cmd --zone=public --add-port=80/tcp --permanent

firewall-cmd --reload

Service httpd restart

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systemctl restart httpd.service

Disable SELinux:

setenforce 0

Now, let us begin the installation via the browser:

Open your favorite browser and point tohttp://your_IP_address/pandora_console/

Click Next and accept the license terms:

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Check if everything is green:

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Enter the root password of mysql admi:

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The Server will create the database Pandora with generated password bellow, this password you need
it to start the pandora Server.

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next:

Now the pandora_console is installed, move or remove install.php and

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open http://ip/pandora_console.

Then, login with: admin:pandora

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2 – 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 perl-XML-Twig net-snmp-utils

perl-IO-Socket-INET6 perl-Socket6 perl-Net-Telnet wmic perl-JSON wmic perl-CPAN

If you have issues with wmic package, please download it fromhttp://blogs.aanish.in/wp-

content/uploads/WMIC_Pkgs.zip

[root@unixmen-centos7 ~]# yum install wmic-4.0.0tp4-0.x86_64.rpm

Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
Examining wmic-4.0.0tp4-0.x86_64.rpm: wmic-4.0.0tp4-0.x86_64
Marking wmic-4.0.0tp4-0.x86_64.rpm to be installed
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package wmic.x86_64 0:4.0.0tp4-0 will be installed

Install now the pandora server rpm package:

rpm -ivh pandorafms_console-5.1-1.noarch.rpm

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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 generated password in the console installation
to /etc/pandora/pandora_server.conf

# dbpass: Database password

dbpass pandora

Change pandora with your generated password (ymigwenv), look screenshot step 5:

Start the server:

/etc/init.d/pandora_server start

Start tentacle server:

/etc/init.d/tentacle_serverd start

If you have any issues with this step, please check if your perl module Time-HiRes is installed.

3 – 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-5.1-1.noarch.rpm

Configure the agent on the file/etc/pandora/pandora_agent.conf:

And make the pandora Server ip

########################################
server_ip 10.1.1.200 # your Pandora Server
server_path /var/spool/pandora/data_in
temporal /tmp
logfile /var/log/pandora/pandora_agent.log

###################################

Start the agent:

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[root@Centos6-unixmen ~]# /etc/init.d/pandora_agent_daemon start

Now back the Server restart the Daemon and check the console, in my case Centos 6 is the agent and
my server is Centos 7.

Done.

Cheers!

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