Projects

sudo

Sudo (su "do") allows a system administrator to give certain users (or groups of users) the ability to run some (or all) commands as root or another user while logging the commands and arguments.

S.M.A.R.T. Monitoring Tools

smartmontools contains utilities that control and monitor storage devices using the Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology (S.M.A.R.T.) system built into ATA and SCSI hard drives. This is used to check the reliability of the hard drive and to predict drive failures. It is meant to be an ... [More] up-to-date replacement for the ucsc-smartsuite and smartsuite packages, and is derived from that code. [Less]

CPAN

The CPAN module automates or at least simplifies the make and install of perl modules and extensions. It includes some primitive searching capabilities and knows how to use Net::FTP or LWP or some external download clients to fetch the distributions from the net. These are fetched from one or ... [More] more of the mirrored CPAN (Comprehensive Perl Archive Network) sites and unpacked in a dedicated directory. The CPAN module also supports the concept of named and versioned bundles of modules. Bundles simplify the handling of sets of related modules. [Less]

Nagios

Nagios (formerly Netsaint) is a daemon written in C that is designed to monitor networked hosts and services. It has the ability to notify contacts (via email, pager or other methods) when problems arise and are resolved. Host and service checks are performed by external "plugins", making ... [More] it easy to write custom checks in your language of choice. Several CGIs are included in order to allow you to view the current and historical status via a Web browser, and a WAP interface is also provided to allow you to acknowledge problems and disable notifications from an internet-ready cellphone. [Less]

Puppet

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 discrete elements like packages, services, and ... [More] 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]

monit

monit is a utility for managing and monitoring processes, files, directories and devices on a UNIX system. monit conducts automatic maintenance and repair and can execute meaningful casual actions in error situations.

Icinga

Icinga is a monitoring system based on Nagios. It extends its capabilities and delivers new features like libdbi for database abstraction, well written APIs and a new, easy to extend webinterface.

Zenoss Core

Zenoss is an IT infrastructure monitoring product that allows you to monitor your entire infrastructure within a single, integrated software application. From bare metal to the clouds, key features include: monitoring the entire stack with SNMP, SSH, WMI, JMX and other protocols powerful eventing ... [More] and alerting mechanisms easy to extend, everything in the UI may be accessed programatically or remotely large and thriving community, over 75000 users in 170+ countries Manage your networks, servers, applications, services, power, environmental, cloud and virtual infrastructure with Zenoss. [Less]

Facter

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

ISPConfig

ISPConfig is an open source hosting control panel for Linux. ISPconfig 3 is capable of managing multiple servers from one control panel. Managed Services and Features *Manage one or more Servers from one Controlpanel (Multiserver Management) *Different permission levels (Administrators ... [More] , Resellers and Clients) + Email user level provided by a roundcube plugin for ISPConfig *Httpd (virtual hosts, domain and IP based) *FTP, SFTP, SCP *DNS (A, CNAME, MX, SRV and TXT Records) *POP3, IMAP *Email-Autoresponder *Server based mail filtering *Advanced email spamfilter and antivirus filter *MySQL client-databases *Webalizer statistics *Harddisk quota *Mail-Quota *Traffic limits and statistics *IP-addresses *SSL *SSI *PHP *Shell-access *Jailed shell access *Firewall *Server monitoring *phpMyAdmin [Less]