Projects tagged ‘administration’ and ‘inventory’

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 ... [More] users, cron jobs, and hosts, along with obviously 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.

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. * ... [More] Func automatically distributes certificates to all "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]

Centreon is a network, system, applicative supervision and monitoring tool, it is based upon the most effective Open Source monitoring engine: Nagios. Centreon provides a new frontend and new ... [More] functionalities to Nagios. It allows you to be more efficient in your network monitoring, but also allows you to make your supervision information readable by a largest range of users. Indeed, a non technical user can now use the Centreon/Nagios couple to easily understand your network infrastructure thanks to charts and graphical representations of the gathered information. Skilled users still have access to specific and technical information collected by Nagios though. [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.

GLPI is the Information Resource-Manager with an additional Administration Interface. You can use it to build up a database with an inventory for your company (computer, software, printers, etc). It ... [More] has enhanced functions to make the daily life for the administrators easier, like a job-tracking-system. [fr] Gestionnaire libre de parc informatique. [Less]

Quattor is a system administration toolkit providing a powerful, portable and modular toolsuite for the automated installation, configuration and management of clusters and farms running UNIX ... [More] derivates like Linux and Solaris. At its heart, it has a powerful language, Pan, for describing configuration. One of its distinctive feature is pre-deployment checks. This tool has been developed over 10 years in the context of the European grid, EGEE, to handle grid site management. But it can be used in many other contexts: non-grid servers, desktops, virtual machines and more. It is currently used by sites managing from a few 10s of nodes to several thousands, one managing 15K nodes with a single Quattor instance. Outside the grid world it is used by a couple of very large commercial companies. [Less]

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.

i-doit is a web based Configuration Management Database (CMDB) written in PHP5. It is used for an ITIL-compliant documentation of IT. The name stands for „i document it“. The target of the project is to provide an open source ITSM framework.