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Browse free open source Systems Administration software and projects for Linux and BSD below. Use the toggles on the left to filter open source Systems Administration software by OS, license, language, programming language, and project status.
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S.M.A.R.T. Monitoring Tools
Disk Inspection and Monitoring
smartmontools contains utility programs (smartctl, smartd) to control/monitor storage systems using the Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology System (S.M.A.R.T.) built into most modern ATA and SCSI disks. It is derived from smartsuite. -
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Zabbix
Enterprise-class, distributed monitoring solution for networks & apps
Zabbix is an enterprise-class open source distributed monitoring solution designed to monitor and track performance and availability of network servers, devices and other IT resources. It supports distributed and WEB monitoring, auto-discovery, and more. An enterprise-class distributed monitoring solution for networks & apps -
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NSClient++ is a windows service that allows performance metrics to be gathered by Nagios (and possibly other monitoring tools). It is an attempt to create a NSClient and NRPE compatible but yet extendable performance service for windows.
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swatchdog.pl started out as swatch, the "simple watchdog" for activity monitoring log files produced by UNIX's syslog facility. It has since been evolving into a utility that can monitor just about any type of log. The name has been changed to satisfy a request made by the old Swiss watch company.
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Hyperic is application monitoring and performance management for virtual, physical, and cloud infrastructures. Auto-discover resources of 75+ technologies, including vSphere, and collect availability, performance, utilization, and throughput metrics.
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BASE is the Basic Analysis and Security Engine. It is based on the code from the Analysis Console for Intrusion Databases (ACID) project. This application provides a web front-end to query and analyze the alerts coming from a SNORT IDS system.
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[ set status to abandon - volunteers welcome ] The postfix-logwatch / amavis-logwatch log analyzers produce summaries, reports and statistics regarding the operation of postfix and amavis. Use standalone, or as a filter module for the open source logwatch utility.
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Logsurfer is a program for monitoring system logs in real-time, and reporting on the occurrence of events. It is capable of grouping information together to enhance loganalysis and create automatic reports.
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xrootconsole tails a file in a window on your X11 root window. It aims to be as simple and resource-light as possible, within reason: it should run smootlhy on a P133 laptop. The program is non-interactive; all configuration is done on the command line.
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No-Nonsense Code-to-Cloud Security for Devs | AikidoAikido provides a unified security platform for developers, combining 12 powerful scans like SAST, DAST, and CSPM. AI-driven AutoFix and AutoTriage streamline vulnerability management, while runtime protection blocks attacks.
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evtViewer
Ms event (*.evt) log files viewer
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A complete OpenSource Network Management System Is SNMP-Standard Oriented (tested on Cisco and Linux). It Integrates Syslog, Tacacs, RRDtool (Performance Graphs), Maps, Traps, TFTP, Autodiscovery, Sound Alerts, AAA, Modular and Extensible.
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netleak is a collection of small perlscripts that detects connectivity between network segments. It is mostly useful to detect "leaks" in large organizations that have private network segments physically separated from the Internet.
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The fetchlog utility displays the last new messages of a logfile (syslog). fetchlog is similar like tail but offers some extra functionality like pattern matching with regular expressions, output formatting for email, SMS, pager or SNMP tools, etc.
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SRG is a log file analyser and report generator for the Squid web proxy. It is fast and was created to allow easy integration with other authentication systems. SRG is flexible and can report right down the the level of individual files requested.
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SARAH (Syslog Automated Rotation and Archive Handler) is a log rotation and archival tool with increased flexibility. It is meant to replace such standard tools as newsyslog.
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Automated Security Tools (autosec) aims to provide automatic tools which network administrators may use to help check and test the security of their network.
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ESC System Ctrl
Tools to help you control IT systems and escape their control over you
monitor - pings nodes, records response times, and alerts when unreachable checkinout - check in/out tracker for Helpdesk items logger - configuration change logger and notifier assets - asset manager (yet to be developed) projects - project tracker (yet to be developed) -
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HotSaNIC is a Web-based information center for Unix-based systems. It gives you a graphical overview about certain network- and system statistics. HotSaNIC is programmed (mainly in Perl 5) in a modular way to give you a great flexibility of which items yo
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Labrador is a Host-based Intrusion Detection System (HIDS) and Integrity Checker written entirely in Perl. It aims to be a complete, free, multiplatform, and open-source solution for detecting modifications and tamperings in files.
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LogMiner is a powerful log analysis package for Apache/IIS (or other web servers using the "combined" or Extended W3C log formats). It can extract and present statistics about visits, hits, traffic, navigation paths, browsers and OS's used by users.
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MakeLogic Tail is an advanced "tail -f" command with GUI. It needs JRE 5.0, hence it is 'Tail for Windows', Linux or 'Tail for Mac'. It shows the last few lines of a growing log file in real time. Provides many more easy to use features. Try it!
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A tool to monitor internet hosts` bandwidth usage in a Linux-NAT network. A daemon collects data and clients display them (currently a Java applet with a graph). It automatically detects new hosts and has a nice summary statistic.
