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Nmap ("Network Mapper") is a free open source utility for network exploration or security auditing. It was designed to rapidly scan large networks, although it works fine against single hosts. Nmap uses raw IP packets in novel ways to determine what
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hosts are available on the network, what services (application name and version) those hosts are offering, what operating systems (and OS versions) they are running, what type of packet filters/firewalls are in use, and dozens of other characteristics. Nmap runs on most types of computers and both console and graphical versions are available. [Less]
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
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and to predict drive failures. It is meant to be an up-to-date replacement for the ucsc-smartsuite and smartsuite packages, and is derived from that code. [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
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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 acknowledge problems and disable notifications from an internet-ready cellphone. [Less]
Server Virtualization with the Xen Hypervisor
Enterprises looking to increase server utilization, consolidate server farms, reduce complexity, and decrease total cost of ownership are embracing server virtualization. The Xen® hypervisor is the
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fastest and most secure infrastructure virtualization solution available today, supporting a wide range of guest operating systems including Windows®, Linux®, Solaris®, and various versions of the BSD operating systems. [Less]
The OpenSource industry standard, high performance data logging and graphing system for time series data. Use it to write your custom monitoring shell scripts or create whole applications using its Perl, Python, Ruby, TCL or PHP bindings.
RRD is
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the acronym for Round Robin Database. It is a system to store and display time-series data (i.e. network bandwidth, machine-room temperature, server load average). [Less]
Munin the monitoring tool surveys all your computers and remembers what it saw. It presents all the information in graphs through a web interface. Its emphasis is on plug and play capabilities. After completing a installation a high number of
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monitoring plugins will be playing with no more effort.
Using Munin you can easily monitor the performance of your computers, networks, SANs, applications, weather measurements and whatever comes to mind. It makes it easy to determine "what's different today" when a performance problem crops up. [Less]
Cacti is a complete network graphing solution designed to harness the power of RRDTool's data storage and graphing functionality. Cacti provides a fast poller, advanced graph templating, multiple data acquisition methods, and user management features
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out of the box. All of this is wrapped in an intuitive, easy to use interface that makes sense for LAN-sized installations up to complex networks with hundreds of devices. [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
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/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]
The Webalizer is a fast, free web server log file analysis program. It produces highly detailed, easily configurable usage reports in HTML format, for viewing with a standard web browser.
Privoxy is a web proxy with advanced filtering capabilities for protecting privacy, filtering web page content, managing cookies, controlling access, and removing ads, banners, pop-ups and other obnoxious junk. It is based on the Internet Junkbuster.
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
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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.
SystemTap provides free software (GPL) infrastructure to simplify the gathering of information about the running Linux system. This assists diagnosis of a performance or functional problem. SystemTap eliminates the need for the developer to go
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through the tedious and disruptive instrument, recompile, install, and reboot sequence that may be otherwise required to collect data.
SystemTap provides a simple command line interface and scripting language for writing instrumentation for a live running kernel. We are publishing samples, as well as enlarging the internal "tapset" script library to aid reuse and abstraction. We also plan to support probing userspace applications. We are investigating interfacing Systemtap with similar tools. [Less]
Deluxe latency measurement system with nice web display and alerts.
Timesheet Next Gen is the continued development of believed dead project of Timesheet PHP.
Timesheet PHP allows you to track the hours of employees and contractors across multiple projects.
Features include:
- flexible time zone configuration
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options
- track hours worked by contractors across multiple countries
- automated report and invoice calculation
- clock-on and clock-off at the click of a button
- manually manage and update time and tasks
- weekly and monthly calendar views
Notes:
- Even on its own web site and within the program, Timesheet PHP constantly switches its own name between "Timesheet PHP" and "Timesheet.php".
- Project has been revived as "Timesheet Next Gen" [Less]
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.
Yong is server/network/uptime monitor that is completely independent of server side software , this means that you did not need to run anything on your target server , Yong independently check target server for icmp echo request , dns hostname request , and any tcp based protocol via hot-plugable mechanism .
iftop does for network usage what top(1) does for CPU usage. It listens to network traffic on a named interface and displays a table of current bandwidth usage by pairs of hosts. Handy for answering the question "why is our ADSL link so slow?".
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
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in BetterAWStats, additional features are being developed, but limited by the data provided through AWStats. [Less]
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
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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.
Originally founded by Ken Papizan, phpTimeClock grew to be an easy to use and stable timeclock solution for many companies. After a short while of inactivity the project was revived and given new life in the form of a new website and new code.
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phpTimeClock strives to become the premiere open source timeclock solution, suitable for small companies and large enterprises. [Less]
a set of tools for performance tuning and debugging Erlang code
OutKafe (formerly ZybaCafe) is a next-generation free and open-source internet cafe management suite.
OutKafe comprises a server-side administration suite, as well as clients to manage time-control on machines.
OutKafe has a powerful plugin
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architecture allowing for easy extensibility and integration with other tools such as accounting packages and CRM systems. [Less]
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.
MailWatch for MailScanner is a web-based front-end to MailScanner written in PHP, MySQL and JpGraph. It comes with a CustomConfig module for MailScanner which causes MailScanner to log all message data (excluding body text) to a MySQL database which is then queried by MailWatch for reporting and statistics.
Aranha is an application that uses an XML-RPC layer to retrieve information from one or more servers. The type of information gathered is implemented via plugins, and can be displayed or archived in several different ways. The data is gathered in
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Round Robin Databases (integrated with rrdtool) and can be accessed using a XUL interface available from the system. Plugins are very easy to write. [Less]
GreenSQL is a database firewall engine used to protect Open Source Databases from SQL injection attacks. It works in proxy mode. Application logics is based on evaluating of SQL commands using risk score factors, as well as blocking of administrative commands.
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.