Projects tagged ‘systems_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.

Filesystem in Userspace is a simple interface for userspace programs to export a virtual filesystem to the Linux kernel. It also aims to provide a secure method for non privileged users to create and mount their own filesystem implementations.

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]

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]

iTerm is a terminal emulation program written using Cocoa. The letter i represents a native Apple look and feel of the program interface, and an emphasis on complete international support. It provides multiple tabs within one window, support for ... [More] Applescript, transparent windows and custom background pictures, Rendezvous support, and support for all language encodings that are available with OS X. [Less]

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

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]

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]

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]

The Courier mail transfer agent (MTA) is an integrated mail/groupware server based on open commodity protocols such as ESMTP, IMAP, POP3, LDAP, SSL, and HTTP. Courier provides ESMTP, IMAP, POP3, Webmail, and mailing list services within a single ... [More] consistent framework. Individual components can be enabled or disabled at will. Courier implements basic Web-based calendaring and scheduling services integrated in the Webmail module. [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 ... [More] /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]

Portupgrade (aka pkgtools) is a tool set for working with FreeBSD ports and packages. It enhances abilities of the system tools and adds many new ones.

grml is a bootable CD (Live-CD) originally based on Knoppix and nowadays based on Debian. grml includes a collection of GNU/Linux software especially for users of texttools and system administrators. grml provides more than 2500 software packages! ... [More] Excluding library stuff, more than 1700 packages remain. We don't ship KDE and OpenOffice, but more than 800 packages which Knoppix does not provide. You'll get sysadmins favourite tools, security- and network-related software, data recovery- and forensic-tools, LaTeX, many editors, shells, and of course many texttools. [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]

ClamWin is a Free Antivirus for Microsoft Windows 98/Me/2000/XP and 2003 which includes an easy installer and open source code. You may download and use it absolutely free of charge. It features: * High detection rates for viruses and spyware; ... [More] * Scanning Scheduler; * Automatic downloads of regularly updated Virus Database. * Standalone virus scanner and right-click menu integration to Microsoft Windows Explorer; * Addin to Microsoft Outlook to remove virus-infected attachments automatically. Please note that ClamWin Free Antivirus does not include an on-access real-time scanner. You need to manually scan a file in order to detect a virus or spyware. ClamWin Free Antivirus uses ClamAV scanning engine. [Less]

The Logical Volume Manager (LVM) is a subsystem for online disk storage management which has become a de facto standard for storage management under Linux.

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 ... [More] used for logging, monitoring, capacity planning, availability and performance measurement, and providing the latest information to a helpdesk. [Less]

OProfile is a low-overhead, transparent profiler for Linux. It is capable of instruction-grain profiling of all processes, shared libraries, the kernel, and device drivers, via the hardware performance counters.

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

Source Mage is a source-based GNU/Linux distribution based on a Sorcery metaphor of "casting" and "dispelling" programs, which we refer to as "spells", and a package manager called "Sorcery". Our packages are designed to allow the user to customize ... [More] the package any way they want (custom flags, etc.) as well as offering as many of the package options as possible to the user up-front (you will not need to know what options a package has or what optional dependencies it can use ahead of time). All of our scripts are GPL'd and our package manager and packages are written in bash, so they are easy to learn and modify. Sorcery supports custom packages maintained by users, which can override the default package and will never be touched by updates. The magic is truly in your hands with SourceMage. [Less]

Ettercap is a network sniffer/interceptor/logger for ethernet LANs. It supports active and passive dissection of many protocols (even ciphered ones, like SSH and HTTPS). Data injection in an established connection and filtering on the fly is also ... [More] possible, keeping the connection synchronized. Many sniffing modes were implemented to give you a powerful and complete sniffing suite. Plugins are supported. It has the ability to check whether you are in a switched LAN or not, and to use OS fingerprints (active or passive) to let you know the geometry of the LAN. [Less]

SystemRescueCd is a Linux system available from a bootable CDROM that provides an easy way to perform administrative tasks on your computer, such as creating and editing the partitions of the hard disk or backing up data. It contains a lot of system ... [More] utilities (such as parted, partimage, and fstools), and basic programs (such as editors, midnight commander, and network tools). It also includes QtParted, a Partition Magic clone that makes editing partitons easy with its Qt graphical user interface. This CDROM aims to be very easy to use and accessible to everybody. [Less]

John the Ripper is a fast password cracker, currently available for many flavors of Unix (11 are officially supported, not counting different architectures), Windows, DOS, BeOS, and OpenVMS. Its primary purpose is to detect weak Unix passwords. ... [More] Besides several crypt(3) password hash types most commonly found on various Unix flavors, supported out of the box are Kerberos AFS and Windows NT/2000/XP/2003 LM hashes, plus several more with contributed patches. [Less]

phpSysInfo is a customizable PHP script that parses various files in /proc and displays them. It will display information about system facts like Uptime, CPU, Memory, SCSI, IDE, PCI, Ethernet, Floppy, and Video. It now has full internationalization support along with customizable templates.

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]

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 ... [More] 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]

QTParted is a Partition Magic clone. It uses libparted for raw disk access, so you need parted installed to use it. The goal of QTParted is to fully wrap all function of parted and create a user friendly PM clone for Linux.

Etherboot is a free software package for making boot ROMs for booting Linux and other operating systems on x86, Itanium, Hammer, and Hyperstone machines over a network using Internet protocols, namely DHCP and tftp.

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.

PCI utilities for many *nix systems and hopefully even Windows: lspci and setpci, for now.