Projects tagged ‘administration’

phpMyAdmin is a tool written in PHP intended to handle the administration of MySQL over the Web. Currently it can create and drop databases, create/drop/alter tables, delete/edit/add fields, execute any SQL statement, manage keys on fields.

Sudo (su "do") allows a system administrator to give certain users (or groups of users) the ability to run some (or all) commands as root or another user while logging the commands and arguments.

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 ... [More] 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]

The CPAN module automates or at least simplifies the make and install of perl modules and extensions. It includes some primitive searching capabilities and knows how to use Net::FTP or LWP or some external download clients to fetch the distributions ... [More] from the net. These are fetched from one or more of the mirrored CPAN (Comprehensive Perl Archive Network) sites and unpacked in a dedicated directory. The CPAN module also supports the concept of named and versioned bundles of modules. Bundles simplify the handling of sets of related modules. [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 acknowledge problems and disable notifications from an internet-ready cellphone. [Less]

Open Source administration and management tools for the PostgreSQL database and derivative products such as EnterpriseDB, Pervasive Postgres and SRA PowerGres. Includes a graphical administration interface, an SQL query tool with grahical EXPLAIN, a ... [More] procedural code editor, an SQL/shell/batch scheduling agent, Slony-I management and much more. pgAdmin III is designed to answer the needs of most users, from writing simple SQL queries to developing complex databases. The graphical interface supports all PostgreSQL features and makes administration easy. Available in more than a dozen languages and for several operating systems, including Microsoft Windows �, Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OSX and Solaris. [Less]

phpPgAdmin is a fully functional PHP-based administration package for PostgreSQL. It has all the basic functionality you need to completely administer a PosgreSQL server and/or database, including the ability to administer views, sequences, stored ... [More] procedures, and triggers. Features include the ability to create and drop databases; create, copy, drop, and alter tables/views/sequences/functions/triggers; edit and add fields (to the extent Postgres allows); execute any SQL-statement, even batch-queries; manage keys on fields; create and read dumps of database and tables; and administer one single database, multiple servers, and Postgres users/groups. [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 ... [More] 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]

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]

Bacula is a set of programs that allow you to manage the backup, recovery, and verification of computer data across a network of different computers. It is based on a client/server architecture and is efficient and relatively easy to use, while ... [More] offering many advanced storage management features that make it easy to find and recover lost or damaged files. [Less]

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

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.

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 native dump and/or GNU tar facilities and can back ... [More] 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]

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. * Func automatically distributes certificates to all ... [More] “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. * It’s really simple under the covers. Func works over XMLRPC and SSL. * Any program can use func certificates, latch on to them, and take advantage of secure master-to-slave communication. * There are no databases or crazy stuff to install and configure. Again, certificate distribution is automatic too. [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.

phpLDAPadmin is a web-based LDAP client. It provides easy, anywhere-accessible, multi-language administration for your LDAP server. Its hierarchical tree-viewer and advanced search functionality make it intuitive to browse and administer your LDAP ... [More] directory. Since it is a web application, this LDAP browser works on many platforms, making your LDAP server easily manageable from any location. phpLDAPadmin is the perfect LDAP browser for the LDAP professional and novice alike. Its user base consists mostly of LDAP administration professionals. [Less]

Centreon is a network, system, applicative supervision and monitoring tool, it is based upon the most effective Open Source monitoring engine: Nagios. Centreon provides a new frontend and new functionalities to Nagios. It allows you to be more ... [More] efficient in your network monitoring, but also allows you to make your supervision information readable by a largest range of users. Indeed, a non technical user can now use the Centreon/Nagios couple to easily understand your network infrastructure thanks to charts and graphical representations of the gathered information. Skilled users still have access to specific and technical information collected by Nagios though. [Less]

Open Computer and Software Inventory Next Generation is an application designed to help a network or system administrator keep track of computer configuration and software installed on the network. It also allows deploying softwares, commands or ... [More] files on Windows and Linux client computers. Management server runs on Apache/MySQL/PHP/PERL server, under Linux or Windows NT based computers. [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.

SysCP, the System Control Panel is a server administration tool which enables an internet service provider to give their customers a web-based application to administrate their email addresses, their subdomains etc. The project was founded in autumn ... [More] 2003 by Florian Lippert and was published on June, 15th 2004 under the GNU General Public Licence (GPL). [Less]

FlameRobin is an administration and management GUI tool for the Firebird DBMS written in C++ using wxWidgets and IBPP libraries. The goal of the project is to build a lightweight, cross-platform application which doesn't have any closed-source dependency for either building or running.

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 .

MySQL Administrator is a powerful visual administration console that enables you to easily administer your MySQL environment and gain significantly better visibility into how your databases are operating. MySQL Administrator now integrates database ... [More] management and maintenance into a single, seamless environment, with a clear and intuitive graphical user interface. [Less]

GLPI is the Information Resource-Manager with an additional Administration Interface. You can use it to build up a database with an inventory for your company (computer, software, printers, etc). It has enhanced functions to make the daily life for ... [More] the administrators easier, like a job-tracking-system. [fr] Gestionnaire libre de parc informatique. [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, Update, Security, Networking, Firewall, Recommended Ports, Tips and Tweaks, Daemon, and Universe.

Partition Image is a Linux/UNIX utility similar to Symantec's Ghost. This utility saves partitions in the EXT2, Reiserfs, NTFS, HPFS, FAT16, and FAT32 file system formats to an image file. The image file can be compressed with gzip or bzip2 in order ... [More] to save disk space, and it can be split in order to fit onto a series of floppy disks. This program can be useful for backup purposes. A boot/root disk is also provided, allowing you to run Partition Image without Linux installed on the hard disk. [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 ... [More] 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]

Sistema Administrativo Integrado Descentralizado: Es un sistema administrativo integral que permite la automatización de los procesos inherentes a la administración pública de entes descentralizados sin fines empresariales. En el SAID se registra ... [More] y controla el presupuesto de gastos de un organismo público sin fines empresariales, así los usuarios planifican la formulación de presupuesto de gastos (basado en el instructivo 12 de la ONAPRE) y luego pasan a la asignación de créditos que les permite ejecutar el presupuesto mediante procesos de compras o compromisos de distinto origen. La ejecución del presupuesto pasa por todas las etapas del gasto: compromiso, causado y pagado, conectándose con los procesos financieros y contables que tengan lugar. [Less]

The best developer's and/or admin's GUI tool for Sqlite3 in the world. No joking here (or just a bit only) - it contains the most complette feature set of all tools available. And it's just the beginning... Sqliteman is a Qt4 based GPLv2 ... [More] application near the first stable release. It means it has almost all planned features implemented. When it fills its feature list there will be a "stabilization" phase to catch all possible bugs. [Less]

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 ... [More] architecture allowing for easy extensibility and integration with other tools such as accounting packages and CRM systems. [Less]