Projects tagged ‘system_administration’

The FreeBSD Ports and Packages collection is used to install and manage software on the FreeBSD operating system.

Puppet lets you centrally manage every important aspect of your system using a cross-platform specification language that manages all the separate elements normally aggregated in different files, like users, cron jobs, and hosts, along with obviously ... [More] discrete elements like packages, services, and files. Puppet's simple declarative specification language provides powerful classing abilities for drawing out the similarities between hosts while allowing them to be as specific as necessary, and it handles dependency and prerequisite relationships between objects clearly and explicitly. [Less]

Facter is a cross-platform library for retrieving simple operating system facts, like operating system, linux distribution, or MAC address.

Zenoss is an IT infrastructure monitoring product that allows you to monitor your entire infrastructure within a single, integrated software application.Key features include: Monitors the entire stack: networks, servers, applications, services, power, environment, etc.

Func allows for running commands on remote systems in a secure way, like SSH, but offers several improvements. * Func allows you to manage an arbitrary group of machines all at once. * Func automatically distributes certificates to all ... [More] "slave" machines. There's almost nothing to configure. * Func comes with a command line for sending remote commands and gathering data. * There are lots of modules already provided for common tasks. * Anyone can write their own modules using the simple Python module API. * Everything that can be done with the command line can be done with the Python client API. The hack potential is unlimited. * You'll never have to use "expect" or other ugly hacks to automate your workflow. [Less]

Amanda is a backup system that allows the administrator to set up a single master backup server to back up multiple hosts over network to tape drives/changers or disks or optical media. Amanda uses native dump and/or GNU tar facilities and can back ... [More] up a large number of workstations running multiple versions of Unix. Amanda uses Samba or Cygwin to back up Microsoft Windows desktops and servers. See http://wiki.zmanda.com for more information. [Less]

Bcfg2 helps system administrators produce a consistent, reproducible, and verifiable description of their environment, and offers visualization and reporting tools to aid in day-to-day administrative tasks.

OpenNMS is the world's first enterprise grade network management platform developed under the open source model. It consists of a community supported open-source project as well as a commercial services, training and support organization.

EasyBSD is a modular automation script designed to assist in the extensive post installation process that is required in FreeBSD. The following are modules that are included with EasyBSD, Checks, Update, Security, Networking, Firewall, Recommended Ports, Tips and Tweaks, Daemon, and Universe.

ScopePort is an easy to configure but powerful remote monitoring server. You can use it to monitor servers all over the web. It permanently checks system functions of servers and warns you if something goes wrong. It also provides a nice web ... [More] interface that lets you have the overview of all your servers and their health. The main target of ScopePort is to reliably monitor the health of your servers and giving you the ability to have a central point to organize your network. Every function of ScopePort is designed to be as easy to maintain and setup as possible. It is not very productive to configure the monitoring of a new server for hours. ScopePort will do the most for you. You will only have to install the client and copy the automatically generated config file to the server. [Less]

A complete availability monitoring solution that ensures IT infrastructure uptime while identifying issues before they become real problems. Unifies proven open source tools - Nagios, Nmap, sendpage, PHP, Apache, MySQL and more - through PHP/AJAX-based components and an integrated user interface to deliver the extensible functionality you require.

Support unattended installation of several Linux and Windows. Also a collection of scripts for inventory, deinstallation and other add-ons like dhcp-ldap, php-ssh, samhain, syslog-ng, switch managment, ldap browser. All written in bash and php.

The RHQ project is an abstraction and plug-in based systems management suite that provides extensible and integrated systems management for multiple products and platforms across a set of core features. The project is designed with layered modules ... [More] that provide a flexible architecture for deployment. It delivers a core user interface that delivers audited and historical management across an entire enterprise. A Server/Agent architecture provides remote management and plugins implement all specific support for managed products. [Less]

VHCS - Virtual Hosting Control System. VHCS provides complete hosting automation for Linux - Web, Mail (pop&imap), FTP, DNS , DBs, Quota, Traffic, graphic user interfaces for the administrators, resellers and users.

pymon is an open source network and process monitoring solution implemented in python. The interface and configuration is designed to be easily and rapidly deployed, saving on time and overhead often associated with other monitoring solutions.

Written in PHP 5, this web hosting control panel will provide enterprise class service to any server with its many advanced features using today's best web standards. Some built-in applications include Mail Client, Database Manager, Domain Manager, DNS Manager, File Manager, and more!!

Enomalism is an open source web-based virtual infrastructure platform. Designed to answer the complexity of managing globally disperse virtual server environments. Enomalism helps to automate the transition to a virtualized environment by reducing an ... [More] IT organizations overall workload. The easy to use dashboard can help with issues including deployment planning, load balancing, automatic VM migration, configuration management, and capacity diagnosis. Enomalism virtual infrastructure is a dynamic mapping of physical resources to business needs. While a virtual machine represents the physical resources of a single computer, a virtual infrastructure represents the physical resources of the entire IT environment (Data Center). [Less]

Augeas is a configuration editing tool. It parses configuration files in their native formats and transforms them into a tree. Configuration changes are made by manipulating this tree and saving them back into native config files.

nut manages your network devices (dhcp, static, zeroconf); currently only supports IPv4 on Linux. Support for wpa_assistant is included in the client.

Webminstats is a Webmin module designed to store system information in an rrdtool database and to display historic (hourly, daily, weekly, monthly, and custom) graphs. It is modular in design, so as to be able to log everything from CPU usage to email box size.

Iperf was developed by NLANR/DAST as a modern alternative for measuring maximum TCP and UDP bandwidth performance. Iperf allows the tuning of various parameters and UDP characteristics. Iperf reports bandwidth, delay jitter, datagram loss.

ClusterIt is a collection of clustering tools to allow simple administration of groups of UNIX machines. It can also be used to facilitate parallel shell scripting, and compiling.

libpkg is a library to fetch, install, remove and modify packages in a package management system. It is initialy designed for FreeBSD but could be extended for any system.

Zivios is a web based control panel which brings together vital open source technologies and provides identity management, single sign-on, user, group and computer provisioning, as well as remote management of services. Zivios offers an easy and ... [More] extensible API, allowing organizations to extend the core application with additional plug-ins for their in-house or third party software. [Less]

A simple process monitoring daemon.

Rsyslog is an enhanced multi-threaded syslogd supporting, among others, MySQL, syslog/tcp, RFC 3195, permitted sender lists, filtering on any message part, and fine grain output format control. It is quite compatible to stock sysklogd and can be used ... [More] as a drop-in replacement. Its advanced features make it suitable for enterprise-class, encryption protected syslog relay chains while at the same time being very easy to setup for the novice user. In November 2007, rsyslog has become the default syslogd for the Fedora project. It is currently being slated as the default syslog daemon in the next Debian edition. [Less]

“adimpleo” Latin for “to perform”, this project aims to provide analytics services for large mySQL datbases.

Cloud User Shell (cush) is a multi-call executable (like BusyBox) that combines many useful cloud computing utilities into a single utility, bringing cushy, RESTful cloud control to the command line. It follows Unix principles, seamlessly blending ... [More] cloud resources into existing working environments. In addition to bringing basic HTTP verbs (get, put, post, delete) to the shell, it allows URLs to be 'dereferenced' and software pipelines of server side software to be created. Most people will create a link to cush for each function they wish to use and cush will act like whatever it was invoked as, but it can also be called directly and passed the command as the first parameter. [Less]

A CUPs queue configuration tool. Each queue is described by a PrinterSetupFile (PSF). PrinterSetup has features to allow it to be used for managing CUPs print queues on both clients and servers. The project is currently looking for Windows ... [More] developers who would be interested in porting the system to Windows. The project is in an early stage of prototyping. As such documentation is limited. However, there are screencasts available to help you people starting out with PrinterSetup to become familiar with some of the features. The PrinterSetup project aims to provide a cross platform system for print queue deployment. [Less]

PumpKIN is an open source, fully functional, free TFTP server and TFTP client, which implements TFTP according to RFC1350. It also implements block size option, which allows transfer of files over 32MB, as well as transfer size and transfer timeout options described in RFC2348 and RFC2349.