Case Study: Nazareth College achieves faster, more reliable monitoring with Pandora FMS

Pandora FMS education and monitoring

Nazareth College, a private college in Rochester, NY, was managing more than 600 monitoring devices (including 229 servers and 371 network computers) with only two full‑time IT staff and an obsolete monitoring system that generated many false positives, high support costs, and difficult device configuration. After evaluating several options, Nazareth College selected the Pandora FMS monitoring platform to meet their need for a scalable, customizable, easy‑to‑use, and economical solution.

Pandora FMS delivered a scalable, granular monitoring deployment—Pandora FMS support resolved initial WMI issues within hours and a week of vendor training enabled the team to self‑configure agents, modules, and alerts. As a result, loading times to the monitoring web interface were reduced to a fraction of what they were before, false positives dropped (restoring confidence in alerts), and Nazareth now reliably monitors 600+ devices with improved performance and tailored alarms.

Nazareth College

Rob Fredette

Senior Enterprise & Network Solutions Engineer in IT Services