Projects tagged ‘system_administration’ and ‘tools’

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]

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.

Enomalism is an open source web-based virtual infrastructure platform. Designed to answer the complexity of managing globally disperse virtual server environments. Enomalism helps to automate the ... [More] transition to a virtualized environment by reducing an IT organizations overall workload. The easy to use dashboard can help with issues including deployment planning, load balancing, automatic VM migration, configuration management, and capacity diagnosis. Enomalism virtual infrastructure is a dynamic mapping of physical resources to business needs. While a virtual machine represents the physical resources of a single computer, a virtual infrastructure represents the physical resources of the entire IT environment (Data Center). [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 ... [More] , PHP, Apache, MySQL and more - through PHP/AJAX-based components and an integrated user interface to deliver the extensible functionality you require. [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 ... [More] something goes wrong. It also provides a nice web 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]

EasyBSD is a modular automation script designed to assist in the extensive post installation process that is required in FreeBSD. The following are modules that are included with EasyBSD, Checks ... [More] , Update, Security, Networking, Firewall, Recommended Ports, Tips and Tweaks, Daemon, and Universe. [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.