Projects tagged ‘system_administration’

The FreeBSD Ports and Packages collection is used to install and manage software on the FreeBSD operating system.

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]

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 ... [More] stack: networks, servers, applications, services, power, environment, etc. [Less]

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

Func allows for running commands on remote systems in a secure way, like SSH, but offers several improvements. * Func allows you to manage an arbitrary group of machines all at once. * ... [More] Func automatically distributes certificates to all "slave" machines. There's almost nothing to configure. * Func comes with a command line for sending remote commands and gathering data. * There are lots of modules already provided for common tasks. * Anyone can write their own modules using the simple Python module API. * Everything that can be done with the command line can be done with the Python client API. The hack potential is unlimited. * You'll never have to use "expect" or other ugly hacks to automate your workflow. [Less]

Amanda is a backup system that allows the administrator to set up a single master backup server to back up multiple hosts over network to tape drives/changers or disks or optical media. Amanda uses ... [More] native dump and/or GNU tar facilities and can back up a large number of workstations running multiple versions of Unix. Amanda uses Samba or Cygwin to back up Microsoft Windows desktops and servers. See http://wiki.zmanda.com for more information. [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.

ispCP is a project founded to build a Multi Server Control and Administration Panel without limits. Until there is an usable version a lot of time will pass by. This Control Panel should be usable by ... [More] any Internet Service Provider (isp). To develop such a tool, we need a lot of time. To gain your interest, we decided to support the dying VHCS project. VHCS means Virtual Hosting Control Panel. It is a powerful tool to administrate your webhosting services. Our fork of VHCS is called the ispCP Omega. [Less]

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.

abiCloud is an open source cloud computing platform manager. It allows to quickly create a private cloud inside an organization's firewall, and manage it with a rich user interface. Next version will ... [More] allow to also deploy images in external clouds, creating an hybrid environment. [Less]