Projects tagged ‘system-management’

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.

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.

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.

Augeas is a configuration editing tool. It parses configuration files in their native formats and transforms them into a tree. Configuration changes are made by manipulating this tree and saving them back into native config files.

USM is: A web-based server management tool for Ubuntu Linux is under development. Features include the ability to manage multiple profiles and user accounts and install new software remotely. Suitable ... [More] for both home and business thanks to its flexible plug-in architecture. In time it will be able to fulfill requirements such as backups, e-mail and streaming. Designed to fulfill these Roles. Home Server Media Server Small Business Server [Less]

Zivios is a web based control panel which brings together vital open source technologies and provides identity management, single sign-on, user, group and computer provisioning, as well as remote ... [More] management of services. Zivios offers an easy and extensible API, allowing organizations to extend the core application with additional plug-ins for their in-house or third party software. [Less]