Projects tagged ‘linux’, ‘server’, and ‘sysadmin’

CUPS provides a portable printing layer for Unix(r)-based operating systems. It has been developed to promote a standard printing solution for all Unix vendors and users. CUPS provides the System V and Berkeley command line interfaces, and uses the ... [More] Internet Printing Protocol ("IPP") as the basis for managing print jobs and queues. The Line Printer Daemon (LPD) Server Message Block (SMB), and AppSocket (a.k.a. JetDirect) protocols are also supported with reduced functionality. CUPS adds network printer browsing and PostScript Printer Description ("PPD") based printing options to support real world printing under UNIX. It includes an image file RIP that supports printing of image files to non-PostScript printers. A customized version of GNU Ghostscript 7.05 for CUPS called ESP Ghostscript is [Less]

Clam AntiVirus (ClamAV) is an anti-virus toolkit for Unix. The main purpose of this software is the integration with mail servers (attachment scanning). The package provides a flexible and scalable multi-threaded daemon, a commandline scanner, and a ... [More] tool for automatic updating via Internet. The programs are based on a shared library distributed with the Clam AntiVirus package, which you can use in your own software. [Less]

Advanced Web Statistics (AWStats) is a free powerful Web server logfile analyzer (Perl script) that shows you all your Web statistics including visits, unique visitors, pages, hits, rush hours, search engines, keywords used to find your site, robots ... [More] , broken links, and more. It works with both IIS 5.0+ and Apache Web server log files as a CGI and/or from the command line. It also supports multiple languages including English, French, Dutch, Spanish, Italian, German, Polish, and Greek. [Less]

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 ... [More] performed by external "plugins", making 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 acknowlege problems and disable notifications from an internet-ready cellphone. [Less]

SquirrelMail is a standards-based Webmail package. It includes built-in pure PHP support for the IMAP and SMTP protocols, and all pages are rendered in pure HTML 4.0 for maximum compatibility across browsers. It has very few requirements, and is very ... [More] easy to configure and install. It has all the functionality you would want from an email client, including strong MIME support, address books, and folder manipulation. [Less]

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]

Webmin is a web-based interface for system administration for Unix. Using any modern web browser, you can setup user accounts, Apache, DNS, file sharing and much more. Webmin removes the need to manually edit Unix configuration files like ... [More] /etc/passwd, and lets you manage a system from the console or remotely. Webmin respects comments and configuration file order, is easy to install, includes dozens of translations, and runs on most Operating Systems. [Less]

Zabbix is software that monitors your servers and applications. Polling and trapping techniques are both supported. It has a simple, yet very flexible notification mechanism, and a Web interface that allows quick and easy administration. It can be ... [More] used for logging, monitoring, capacity planning, availability and performance measurement, and providing the latest information to a helpdesk. [Less]

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.

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

IPCop Linux is a complete Linux distribution whose sole purpose is to protect the networks on which it is installed.

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.

Ganglia is a scalable distributed monitoring system for high-performance computing systems such as clusters and grids. It is based on a hierarchical design targeted at federations of clusters. Ganglia is currently in use on over 500 clusters around the world and has scaled to handle clusters with 2000 nodes.

BetterAWStats is made to provide better statistics out of the data AWStats provides. It is not a replacement of AWStats. It is using all data and language resources from AWStats, so the same translations and general features are always available also ... [More] in BetterAWStats, additional features are being developed, but limited by the data provided through AWStats. [Less]

Annvix is a free secure Linux-based operating system. The Annvix project aims to provide a secure, stable, and fast Linux distribution specifically tailored to servers that provide reliable services such as Email, Web, DNS, FTP, File sharing, and more.

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.

Openwall GNU/*/Linux (or Owl for short) is a security-enhanced server platform. The primary approaches to security are proactive source code review, privilege reduction, privilege separation, careful selection of third-party software, safe defaults ... [More] , "hardening" to reduce the likelihood of successful exploitation of security flaws, and the uses of "strong" cryptography. Also available are policy enforcement and integrity checking capabilities. Besides the security enhancements, other key properties of Owl include the ability to rebuild the entire system from source with one simple command ("make buildworld"), support for software packages found in or developed for Red Hat's and compatible Linux distributions, and support for multiple architectures (currently x86, x86-64, SPARC, and Alpha). [Less]

Gateway Anti-Virus allows applications across the enterprise to check files for viruses by providing a SOAP-based virus scanning web service. Client applications attach files to SOAP messages and submit them to the Gateway Anti-Virus web service. The ... [More] web service uses clamav to scan the attachments for viruses and it returns the results to the client. [Less]

Hardened Linux is a secured and minimalized operating system designed to run as a firewall, IDS host, authentication system and VPN gateway.

Cricket is a high performance, flexible system for monitoring trends in time-series data. It was developed to help network managers visualize and understand the traffic on their networks, but it can be used for all kinds of other jobs, as well. It ... [More] features a hierarchical configuration system (which avoids duplicate info in the config files), full flexibility in RRD structure (arbitrary numbers of DS's and RRA's), a CGI-based graph-on-demand application, and SNMP- and EXEC-based data gathering. [Less]

HST are a set of CLI tools meant to ease administration of GNU/Linux systems (in terms of user accounts, groups, shares, email-adresses/aliases, permissions...). HST are built on a python lib which allows accessing the underlying system in an uniform way, whatever the service (shadow, samba, postfix, dhcpd and so on).

Short description Petunial is a pythonic hosting control panel. Petunial is written in Python and released under the BSD License. Petunial manages various services like: HTTP, FTP, Mail, and DNS. Petunial offers a solution for automated hosting services. Petunial is platform independent and has completly modular design.

CoyMon is a tool for network administrators and WAN managers. It is a tools for those who advise CTOs on network utilization and circuit provisioning. The data that CoyMon provides not only helps skilled engineers troubleshoot large-scale network ... [More] issues, it also helps you save your organization money and time. The easy examination of NetFlow data in a quick, through-the-web interface will help you and your organization quickly evaluate network usage and problems, determining exactly what is necessary to solve your problems. No guesswork. No endless expenditures. No lost time. [Less]

VHCS (Virtual Hosting Control System) provides complete hosting automation for Linux, including Web, mail (POP and IMAP), FTP, DNS, databases, quota, traffic control, and graphical user interfaces for the administrators, resellers, and users.