Open Source Perl Systems Administration Software

The Node Director is a tool for managing distributed, hetergeneous UNIX Systems. Its functionality includes System Configuration, Application Distribution, NIS & NIS+ Management, User Creation and Dynamic System Documentation.

NIUS allows reservation of nodes under it's control for exclusive interactive use by a group of users. This system is in use by National Center for Data Mining at University of Illinois in Chicago to reserve workstations for researchers.

Webmin module for Torque resource manager monitoring and administration. Also works with OpenPBS and PBSPro servers.

NOTE: UBMoD is no longer actively developed and we encourage you to download Open XDMoD as a replacement for UBMoD. Open XDMoD has been developed to provide detailed information on resource utilization and performance for academic and industrial HPC centers. More information is available at http://xdmod.sourceforge.net/ UBMoD is a data warehouse and web portal for mining statistical data from resource managers in high-performance computing environments. UBMoD presents resource utilization over set time periods and provides detailed interactive charts, graphs, and tables.

central-ssh (cssh) is a Perl program that allows systems administrators to run multiple arbitrary commands on multiple arbitrary hosts from one central host. Straight CLI or config file can be used.

metahelper is a utility which makes creating and maintaining upgradeable, removable, and verifiable configuration "metapackages" easy. A metapackage works with files owned by other packages to customize and configure them specifically for your environmen