If you are the person in your organization responsible for securing an OT network, you are probably feeling very popular these days. Your inbox is no doubt full of emails inviting you to ‘hop on a call’ or ‘download now’ or ‘schedule a demo’. Each one promising that they have the best OT cyber security solution. There’s an absolute glut of options right now, and the choices are growing at a rapid pace. What’s a CISO to do? What options are the most important? What features do you look for in a comprehensive OT solution?
Let’s check out together the features and improvements included in the new Pandora FMS release: Pandora FMS 765.
What’s new in the latest Pandora FMS release, Pandora FMS 765
NEW FEATURES AND IMPROVEMENTS
Improved network maps
Multiple changes have been made to network maps to improve the usability, performance and network map setup.
Map drawing and refreshing is automatic and dynamically reflects the changes in the network, highly improving the existing display in previous versions.
The possibility of deleting “Pandora FMS” node as well as all its relationships has been added. Usability has also been improved in manual relationship management between nodes.
Added linking between network maps. When there is a dummy node pointing to another network map, it will be possible to access that map from the options of the dummy node.
New report type: System module inventory
The new type of report “System module inventory” has been created, through which you will see an inventory of the modules generated in your Pandora FMS installation registered by module name, remarking the necessary information for those modules that have the same module name.
Sending reports by mail as an alert action
A new feature has been added to Pandora FMS alert system whereby it is possible to send reports by email in PDF thanks to its incorporation as new actions/commands within Pandora FMS.
Support for Ubuntu 22.04
Ubuntu 22.04 is officially supported by Pandora FMS server
New scheduled downtime option. Disable modules
A new feature has been added within the scheduled downtimes. Now you may choose the option to disable modules without stopping the agent itself.
History database in Metaconsole
Just as it existed in Pandora FMS nodes, there is now the possibility of having a history database within the Metaconsole.
Pandora WMIC package for ARM systems
Usage in ARM environments is growing, and we have created an ARM-supported binary for environments that use the Satellite to remotely monitor Windows environments.
IP console access control
Diferentes usuarios solicitaron controlar el acceDifferent users requested to control access to the console by source IP, which can be defined individually by user. We implemented it so that masks can also be defined, e.g.: 192.168.100.*
Plugin with which emails can be filtered or the number of emails of an account through a series of filters. Useful for detecting whether an alert email arrived or to look for a certain email.
Plugin with which to monitor a space of names of Event Hubs. It returns several types of metric, like SuccesfulRequests, CapturedBytes or ActiveConnections.
Plugin with which to monitor an Azure PostgreSQL data server and to receive metrics such as cpu_precent, memory_percent, storage_used or active_connections, among others.
Plugin with which to remove weather data from a zone through the openweathermap API, entering the area’s coordinates.
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About PandoraFMS
Pandora FMS is a flexible monitoring system, capable of monitoring devices, infrastructures, applications, services and business processes.
Of course, one of the things that Pandora FMS can control is the hard disks of your computers.
