Projects

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]

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.

CFEngine

CFEngine is the long-standing and visionary computer management software used on over a million computers around the world. CFEngine leads the industry with: - Real-time, policy-based repair - Automation and documentation of business and IT-processes - More than 15 years of experience ... [More] , security and stability - One of few true self-healing software solutions in the industry - A scalable solution for freeing up system administration time CFEngine is used by industry leaders, governments and the military worldwide. [Less]

Bcfg2

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.

NagiosQL

NagiosQL is a web based administration tool for Nagios. It helps you to build easy a complex configuration with all options, manage them and use them. NagiosQL needs a webserver with php, MySQL and file access to the Nagios configuration files. The main features are: * create, delete, modify ... [More] and copy settings * create and export configuration files * create and download configuration files * easy configuration import * auto backup configuration files * consistency checks * syntax verification * user management * instant activation of new configs * English, Dutch and German translations * MySQL database platform [Less]