Open Source Perl Systems Administration Software for BSD

Ganglia is a scalable distributed monitoring system for high-performance computing systems such as clusters and Grids. It is based on a hierarchical design targeted at federations of clusters. Supports clusters up to 2000 nodes in size.

openQRM is a web-based open source datacenter management and hybrid cloud computing platform that integrates flexibly with existing components in enterprise data centers. Releases available at https://github.com/openQRM/openqrm-community. Please visit http://www.openqrm-enterprise.com for latest 5.3 free Community Release. Includes important security updates, bugfixes and enhancements especially for KVM and Cloud plugin. openQRM abstracts Virtualization and supports the following virtualization technologies: KVM, XEN, Citrix XenServer, VMWare ESX & LXC. The Hybrid Cloud Connector in openQRM supports a range of private or public cloud providers to extend your infrastructure on demand via Amazon AWS, Eucalyptus or OpenStack. openQRM automates provisioning, virtualization, storage and configuration management, and it takes care of high-availability.

Mesh is a secure, lightweight grid middleware that is based on the addition of a single sign-on capability to the built-in public key authentication mechanism of SSH using system call interposition.

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.

SSS-OSCAR is an integrated release of the SciDAC:Scalable System Software (SSS) suite using the OSCAR cluster installation framework. The SSS project seeks to provide a standard interface for effective management and utilization of terascale systems.

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.

a distributed shell with supporting scripts. For use in managing medium to large deployments of unix / linux servers

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

MLN (Manage Large Networks) is a perl program used to manage a set of User-Mode-Linux instances or Xen instances. From a configuration file, it is possible to specify a large complex network of e.g. Xen instances, which are each configured as specified.

openCP is a fork of vhcs. Short term goals are: feature freeze, bug fix's and a more open developement cycle. Long term aims are: to be a scalable, distributed system to manage components of a HOSTING environment from a central management server.