It features remote monitoring (WMI, SNMP, TCP, UDP, ICMP, HTTP...) and it can also use agents.

It can also monitor hardware systems with a TCP/IP stack, such as load balancers, routers, network switches, printers or firewalls.

Released under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Pandora FMS is free software.

[6] In Pandora FMS architecture, servers are the core of the system because they are the recipients of bundles of information.

It has a very flexible ACL system and a lot of graphical reports and user-defined control screens.

They run on any type of platform (Microsoft, AIX, Solaris, Linux, IPSO, Mac OS or FreeBSD), also SAP, because the agents can communicate with the Pandora FMS Servers to send data in XML using SSH, FTP, NFS, Tentacle (protocol) or any data transfer means.

For example, all data gathered by agents, configuration defined by administrator, events, incidents, audit info, etc.