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Linuxconf a sophisticated administration system for the Linux operating system. In many ways, Linuxconf is different from other administration schemes found on Unix operating systems and most other systems hot Agda Andataco/nStor GigaStor Diskrack Administrator Ape Base Compile System The Ape Base Compile System is a set of scripts that leverage ESP EPM and MREPO to maintain Red Hat based systems that require custom and secluded binaries. It achieves cross platform reproducible compiles applications like Apache HTTPD, MySQL, and PHP, supports a common --prefix parent directory to allow different versions of an application to be installed, provides an easy method to switch between application versions, places selected application binaries in a central "bin" directory, supports delivery via Yum and other common installers, and provides a method for non-compiled "skeleton" files to be included with installation and distribution. ASPLinux ConfPoint ConfPoint is a distributed ontology-driven configuration tool for Linux services. It's meant to be a complete and integral instrument of easy administration of infrastructure servers for those who are not familiar with Linux internals. It consists of a server with plugins for each supported service and a graphical management console application that runs on Linux and Windows platforms. ConfPoint now supports DNS, DHCP, iptables, Samba, CUPS, and ACL management. AutoNOC (commercial) AutoNOC is a high performance, production integrated, peer-to-peer network operations management platform for Windows and Linux. It provides real-time historical analysis, root cause, fault detection, reporting, alerts and alarms, and no-nonsense correlation. It is an interoperable vendor independent solution with built-in support for Microsoft, Cisco, Linux, IBM, and other major technologies. Additionally it offers many novel capabilities, including end user personalization, easy scalability, compressed historical databases, infinite histories, event archiving (it works as a syslog server), and multi-language support. Bootchart Bootchart is a tool for performance analysis and visualization of the GNU/Linux boot process. Resource utilization and process information are collected during the boot process and are later rendered in a PNG, SVG or EPS encoded chart. Bounce-O-Matic Bounce-O-Matic reads through the system log files at a specified time interval (via cron) and finds unwanted attempted logons, it writes these attempts out to an iptables drop file and emits a drop command to iptables. Buildkernel an intelligent shell script that automates the task of building a Linux kernel. cciss_vol_status cciss_vol_status is a lightweight program which reports the status of logical drives on HP Smart Array controllers. cfengine cfengine is a tool for setting up and maintaining BSD and System-5-like operating system optionally attached to a TCP/IP network. cfgarch a tool which collects configuration files from different machines in order to store them within a subversion repository Cfruby Cfruby is a full suite of tools for configuring and maintaining Unix-based servers. Everything from detailed configuration and installation of services through machine lockdown and basic servicing can be accomplished using cfruby. The tools provide access to your machine on a wide range of levels and in a number of different ways ? allowing you to tie them into existing scripts as an aid, or to do entire ground-up configurations. checksysreport checksysreport performs some automatic tests against a directory containing an untarred Red Hat Enterprise Linux sysreport. chkrootkit chkrootkit is a shell script that checks system binaries for rootkit modification. Read more clockspeed uses a hardware tick counter to compensate for a persistently fast or slow system clock. Given a few time measurements from a reliable source, it computes and then eliminates the clock skew Console Configuration Suite a console based suite of utilities for configuring a Red Hat based system cpuburn user program to maximally load an x86 CPU to generate maximum heat for stability testing. Optimized FPU & ALU assembly for P6/K6/P5 CPUs cpuinfo cpuinfo consists of an API/library used by programs to get information about the underlying CPU. Such information includes CPU vendor, model name, cache hierarchy, and supported features (e.g. CMP, SMT, and SIMD). cpuinfo is also a standalone program to demonstrate the use of this API. customize a shell script to manage configuration files and links. It helps to save the configuration files of an installed oparation system and to restore them Darik's Boot and Nuke Darik's Boot and Nuke is a self-contained boot floppy that securely wipes the hard disks of most computers. DBAN will automatically and completely delete the contents of any hard disk that it can detect, which makes it an appropriate utility for bulk or emergency data destruction. Read more Deep Freeze Linux (commercial) Deep Freeze Linux provides a non-restrictive working environment where there is no need to be concerned about system damage or corruption. With every system restart, Deep Freeze Linux resets the computer to its original protected state right down to the last byte. dfu-programmer dfu-programmer is a command-line programmer for Atmel (8051 and AVR) chips with a USB bootloader supporting ISP. This is a mostly Device Firmware Update (DFU) 1.0 compliant user-space application. Easy Integrity Check System designed primarily for system administrators for filesystem integrity checkings. This system is easy to set up and use. Uses mcrypt/mhash libraries for encrypting the database Efes a graphical user interface able to run under (almost) every Linux distribution, so that the system administrator is assured that the underlying hardware is compatible with Linux EHB EHB (Enlightenment Hardware Browser) is a hardware browser for E17 that is written in ETK. It uses the detect library. Einarc Einarc is a universal storage RAID command line interface and an API that provides management for various hardware/software RAID devices, uniting them all in a single paradigm. Einarc works as a translator that makes it possible for a user to control all these devices using simple terms like "physical disc", "logical disc", "adapter", etc., while transparently converting these requests to proprietary RAID paradigms. Erudite Directory Service Admin Erudite Directory Service Admin is a graphical user, group, and computer account manager for LDAP servers. It doesn't try to be he end-all LDAP tool, focuses on making user management quick and easy. esky an implementation of job freezing (checkpoint/resume) for Unix processes. It can save the state of a running process to disk then later resume it from the point it left off, possibly on a different machine. esky currently works on a limited but non-trivial range of processes etcsvn Etcsvn is a command line program for managing system configurations in subversion. It doesn't make a working copy out of your /etc, but uses a temporary workspace. It will preserve ownership/permissions of the files being tracked. fakechroot fakechroot provides a fake chroot environment to programs. A fake chroot allows you to run programs which require root privileges on an unprivileged user account. Fakeroot Next Gen Fakeroot-ng runs a program while fooling it into thinking it is running with root privileges. When the program does something that only root can do (e.g. create a device file), fakeroot-ng emulates the appropriate system calls so that the program gets a consistent view of its actions. Unlike the original fakeroot, fakeroot-ng uses the ptrace interface, which means that it will (soon) support emulating chroot jails properly. fallback-reboot a last resort, when you need to remotely reboot a computer. It attempts to maximize its ability to get the job done by completely avoiding touching the hard disk; it opens no files, and it locks itself into memory to avoid swapping/paging fatresize fatresize is a command line tool for non-destructive resizing of FAT16/FAT32 file systems. It is based on the GNU Parted library. The main target of the project is to be used with the EVMS FAT plugin. For each File For each File is a GNU BASH function. It lets you run an arbitrary set of GNU BASH commands upon an arbitrary set of objects. Freeside an open-source billing and account administration package for Internet Service Providers fs-check fs-check checks filesystem sizes to see if they are getting too full. It uses a configuration file that specifies the filesystems to check, email contacts, trigger thresholds (percentage or amount used/unused), and a report program to run. GECCO (GTK+ Extensible Configuration COnsole) attempts to be a central base where many system and networking settings can be configured. Its sole purpose is to provide a common location for configuration functions genna genna is a system information tool for Linux. It consolidates a lot of useful information into a nice GUI. gET iT i sAY giis (gET iT i sAY) is a file recovery tool for Ext2/Ext3 filesystems. gHW a simple Gtk interface for viewing the hardware info that can be retrieved from the /proc filesystem GL O.B.S. GL O.B.S. is based around a PyGTK interface that launches OpenGL programs feeding them with a common CLI options set which will affect their behaviour, then receives back their statistical output. Benchmarks are easy to create and add. gMGAclock gMGAclock isa Gnome based overclocking utility for Matrox G400 cards. Gnome SuperUser Gnome SuperUser is a gtk frontend to su and as such an easy way to run a program as root in the Gnome environment. It is based on xsu gRunlevels a GTK+ application for configuring runlevel services. The interface is based on that of tksysv. Gspot a control panel for cDc's Back Orifice. It uses the GTK+ widget set HardInfo HardInfo is a small application that displays information about your hardware and operating system. Currently it knows about PCI, ISA PnP, USB, IDE, SCSI, Serial and parallel port devices. Hardware lister lshw (Hardware Lister) is a small tool to provide detailed information on the hardware configuration of the machine. It can report exact memory configuration, firmware version, mainboard configuration, CPU version and speed, cache configuration, bus speed, etc. on DMI-capable x86 or EFI (IA-64) systems and on some PowerPC machines (PowerMac G4 is known to work). hmount hmount is a simple interface to HAL for mounting and unmount hot-plugged devices. Unlike gnome-mount, it doesn't depend on gconf, GTK+, X, or GNOME libraries. htEdit intended for creating and maintaining .htaccess files to password protect Website directories. It creates .htaccess and .htpasswd files and keep track database of created files to easy editing (change password, add or delete users) htmsysinfo htmsysinfo writes information about your system to an HTML, or LaTeX document. hwclock Hwclock is a program that runs under Linux and sets and queries the Hardware Clock, which is often called the Real Time Clock, RTC, or CMOS clock. This is the program that most Linux systems use to get the time from the Hardware Clock and set the System Time at boot time. This program works on ISA (Intel), Alpha, SPARC, and M68K systems with or without /dev/rtc. Install Kernel Install Kernel (ik) is a bash script that installs the Linux kernel and automatically sets up LILO or GRUB. It also saves your kernel configuration each time you do an install. This allows you to restore the newest configuration file when you make a new kernel. ioctlsave ioctlsave is a utility for system administrators with Linux serial consoles. ioctlsave is a program that writes terminal settings to a file in the same format as used when init creates /etc/ioctl.save. isptools a collection of utilities to aid in daily UNIX administration k8ktest k8ktest is a diagnostic program for the Velleman K8000 card. kdbus kdbus is a D-BUS service browser for KDE. It is like kdcop, but for D-BUS instead of DCOP. It presents a browseable tree of all D-BUS services running on your system and all interfaces available on those services. KDE CIM browser a KDE based frontend to management brokers using the CIM-XML protocol. The tool will be useful to view and modify CIM class hierarchies as well as instance and association structures KHTB a GUI for htb.init script with XML data storage. It can import-export htb.init tree kovpn kovpn is a simple OpenVPN GUI that is intended to fit end-user needs. It runs without root privileges and can control the most important functions of OpenVPN, like connecting and disconnecting and username/password input. LASANGE aims to create a mostly-automated LAN session administration and management system. It provides game server management (instant deployment of game servers) and tournament management in a more advanced and automated way than other systems lfsb lfsb is a Linux utility to change the base clock (FSB/Front Side Bus) frequency without having to restart the machine. lhinv generates a standardized listing of configured hardware on your Linux 2.2.x or higher system by parsing the proc filesystem Linsanity Linsanity is a suite of test tools designed to exercise network adapters, optical storage devices, fixed disks, and audio cards. Each of these tools are "native" plugin applications for the VWM user environment. Linux Inventory Aggregator Linux Inventory Aggregator is designed to be a simple, self-contained (as much as possible) script for gathering hardware information. Lside lside is a utility for displaying information about IDE devices in the system. To make use of all the features of this program, you need to have a Linux kernel which supports the /proc/ide interface. Lxbios lxbios is a utility for reading/writing LinuxBIOS parameters and displaying information from the LinuxBIOS table. It works only on x86-based Linux systems that use LinuxBIOS. mbuffer mbuffer is a replacement for buffer with additional functionality including display of i/o speed, optional use of memory mapped i/o for huge buffers and multithreaded instead of sharedmemory ipc. mgaclock a small tool to change the clock settings on the Matrox G400 series of cards mmalloc mmalloc is a heap manager. It is written from a scratch. Main goals were accurate RAM consuming and performance. Modules provides for the dynamic modification of a user's environment via modulefiles mpt-status mpt-status is a query tool for accessing the running configuration and status of LSI SCSI HBAs. It is a heavily modified version of the original mpt-status-1.0 tool written by Matt Braithwaite. Multi Remote Tools MrTools is a suite of tools for managing large, distributed environments. It can be used to execute scripts on multiple remote hosts without prior installation, copy of a file or directory to multiple hosts as efficiently as possible in a relatively secure way, and collect a copy of a file or directory from multiple hosts. MUltihost SSH Wrapper Mussh is a shell script that allows you to execute a command or script over ssh on multiple hosts with one command. When possible mussh will use ssh-agent and RSA/DSA keys to minimize the need to enter your password more than once. Network Device Change Control NDCC is a system of monitoring and recording changes to configurations of network equipment. It can store configuration snapshots for any text-based configs. It has been used to store configurations from Unix and Linux systems; Cisco routers, switches, load balancers, and firewalls; Foundry; NetScreen, Juniper, NetScaler, and others. nicejob renices jobs having used more then a specified CPU time to a specified nice value nist a small Perl script to update your system time from NIST time servers op op provides a flexible means for system administrators to grant trusted users access to certain root operations without having to give them full superuser privileges. Different sets of users may access different operations, and the security-related aspects of environment of each operation can be carefully controlled. OpenVPN Auth Passwd OpenVPN Auth Passwd is a plugin that authenticates OpenVPN users using the local passwd or shadow files, using a privilege separation model. The authentication method must be defined in the Makefile prior to the compilation of the plugin. On shadowed systems it uses the functions provided in the shadow suite and, on other systems, the getpwnam function to verify the username/password. OpenVPN-Admin OpenVPN-Admin is a GUI for OpenVPN, programmed in Mono. Packages are available for Linux and Windows. Included in OpenVPN-Admin is a Certificate wizard and a certificate management for the client. OpenXDAS OpenXDAS is a Novell-sponsored fully functional implementation of the OpenGroup's Distributed Auditing System standard. osinfo osinfo reports the type, the version, the architecture, and the kernel of the Linux distribution you are running. Output Management Plus (OMP) a suite of products designed for the Enterprise Application Information Delivery market. These products provide 'delivery' of enterprise output to multiple destination types including printers, fax, e-mail, and web/intranet sites. In addition, OMP can deliver application output to synergistic output destinations such as Electronic Forms and Storage Management Systems (e.g. COLD) in an easy reliable manner that requires no customized application scripts pessulus pessulus is a lockdown editor for GNOME, written in python. pessulus enables administrators to set mandatory settings in GConf. The users can not change these settings. PolicyKit-gnome PolicyKit-gnome provides a D-Bus session bus service that is used to bring up authentication dialogs used for obtaining privileges. Procinfo NG Procinfo NG is a ground-up rewrite of the procinfo program. The goal is to make the code more readable (and reusable) and to restore broken functionality of the original program. Project Claymore aims to create an easy-to-use, flexible, and ultimately elegant configuration/administration system for Linux. Basically, what this will create is a Linux pygtk-fsacls pygtk-fsacls provides a graphical interface for managing the file system Access Control Lists (or ACLs) that provide fine-grained control over access to file system objects. pypt-offline pypt-offline is a utility for people using Debian (and distros based on debian) with a dial-up conneciton. It helps in downloading the required packages from another, high bandwidth Windows/Linux machine, with or without a cache. pySoft pySoft is a tool for checking for new versions of software. It can check any software for which an appropriate checker script has been written. Scripts for several popular programs are included. Qryptix consists of a PAM object and utilities for session- and key-management for encrypted home directories using the International Kernel (CryptoAPI) patches for Linux. It simplifies login/logout, mounting/unmounting, and key generation and changing qtcpufreq qtcpufreq is a administrative tool for cpufreqd. It allows a easy administration of the cpufreqd daemon on GNU/Linux systems. RACE Remote Administration in distributed Computing Environments: a system designed to help system administrators in the distribution and configuration of software on a huge number of distributed computers over a TCP/IP network read-edid read-edid elucidates various very useful information from a conforming PnP monitor. Red Hat Update lists and downloads (but does not install or upgrade) RedHat RPMs that are available as updates to your installed system restore CD/DVD restore CD/DVD allows you to create a CD or DVD that can be used to backup whole hard disk partitions from any OS and restore them without user interaction. These can be used in a manner similar to vendor-provided rescue CDs included with new computers, but with all your own settings. rpmstrap rpmstrap is a tool for bootstrapping a basic RPM-based system. It is inspired by debootstrap, and allows you to build chroots and basic systems from RPM sources. At present rpmstrap can build basic Fedora Core 2, Fedora Core 3, Fedora Core 4, Yellowdog 4, CentOS 3, CentOS 4, Mandriva and Scientific Linux systems. It also has support for custom RPM-based systems managed by PDK. runsuid runsuid runs a script with another effective user-id / group-id. Saferun Saferun runs a specified program, and applies certain limits to it. Currently the only limit that can be set is the allowed running time. schedtool can be used to query or alter a process' scheduling policy under linux SCMLinux SCMLinux is a Perl script which manages the Software Configuration Management usage of your Linux server. SCMLinux ties bug reporting to code, utilizing ASMAI (http://sourceforge.net/projects/asmai) and FPA (http://sourceforge.net/projects/fpa). Sdbgrey Sdbgrey is a simple (less than 100 lines of shell script) greylisting policy server for Postfix. It is based on greylist.pl from the {ostfix distribution. It requires MySQL and libsdb with MySQL support. segatex segatex is a tool to configure SELinux policy with the help of GUI. Just push a button and it will generate a .te file in the same directory. You can then edit your .te file, make a module, and install. ServDoc describe your system with just one command without the need to configure the documentation of ervery software on your system. The idea of ServDoc is to provide a documentation-module for every (or at least for many) standard software si displays information about the local computer from data gathered from the /proc filesystem, a readable interface to kernel memory SlackUpdate SlackUpdate is a bash script that can be used to check for, download, and install Slackware updates. Sudo 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. Suspend2 Suspend 2 is most easily described as the Linux equivalent of Windows' hibernate functionality. It saves the contents of memory to disk and powers down. When the computer is started up again, it reloads the contents and the user can continue from where they left off. No documents need to be reloaded or applications reopened and the process is much faster than a normal shutdown and start up. swbis The swbis project is a from-scratch implementation of the POSIX spec IEEE Std 1387.2-1995 which describes a format and utilities for software packaging. The scope of the POSIX spec includes a package format, meta-data file format, and utilities for package creation, installation, query, listing, and verification. sybadmin a set of bash scripts useful for Sybase ASE administration sysstat contains the sar and iostat commands for Linux. The sar command collects and reports system activity information. This information can also be saved in a system activity file for future inspection. The iostat command reports CPU statistics and I/O statistics for tty devices and disks System Call Tracker allows you - the 'root' user - to track invocations of system calls across your Linux system System Configuration Collector Server System Configuration Collector (SCC) collects configuration data of systems in snapshots. The structure of the snapshot allows SCC to compare a snapshot with the previous one and detect changes in the configuration. Upon detecting changes, scc adds the differences to a logbook. The snapshot and the logbook are converted to HTML for local inspection. systeminfo.sh systeminfo.sh is a system information gathering script for linux systems. It in non-intrusive and simply gathers information from linux commands that are already available. Tellu Tellu computer inspector collects hardware and software information from large computer client networks, and stores data in MySQL database. The Fish a GTK+ and ncurses based rc.conf editor Tunix a toolkit to build your own small linux image, and boot from a floppy or flash card UMLMON UMLMON is a complete run time environment for User Mode Linux. There is a separate monitor daemon for every VM. It creates the run time environment and starts the VM by executing the UML kernel. The daemon also determines the arguments that are passed to the UML kernel, and includes special support to set up arguments for memory size, virtual disks, virtual network interfaces, and console channels in a convenient way. UMLMON also includes routines to do certain administration tasks like the creation of disks. UnCT Universal Configuration Tool aims to be an extendable control panel for all Unix-like operating systems; it also aims to ease system administration by allowing company wide configuration changes and policies to be implemented in seconds. UnixConf a System-Configuration-Tool for Debian (in future RedHat,SuSE,Open- & FreeBSD too) written in Shell-Script(sh/ash). It is a X/Dialog based Modular System-Tool created for Admins, to Configure your Base-System, Network, Servers,... Untie Untie is a small tool used to create namespaces and lauch processes in them. It uses Linux's virtualization features. It allows the user to call clone with any flag as a parameter. Note that superuser privileges are needed to create namespaces. Usepackage Environment Manager Usepackage Environment Manager is a tool for managing the Unix environment for a multi-tool, multi-platform site. It is designed to simplify login scripts and allow administrators to control users' environments centrally. userchroot userchroot is a small program which, in addition to doing a regular chroot, will also switch working directory once in chroot and drop privileges back to pre-suid values. It is intended to ease constructing chrooted user-driver services (running stfp-server in a restricted namespace for example). In order to conserve system resources, it is implemented in C. This makes it more suitable for higher load scenarios than scripts. VARMon a GNU licensed RAID manipulation / management tool for DAC960/DAC1164 controller family videogen a small and handy utility that generates XFree86 and/or fbset (Linux framebuffer device) Virtfs based on the Virtual Services HOWTO and aids in creating and configuring virtual services/domains.With this package, you can host several domains on one single machine, configuring services (ie. FTP, SMTP/POP, etc..) for each individual domain vlock vlock is a program to lock one or more sessions on the Linux console. This is especially useful for Linux machines which have multiple users with access to the console. whichcap whichcap allows administrators to give user programs certain capabilites via sudo using a kernel patch 2.2.x. xml2hostconf generates RPM packages, dhcpd.conf, grub files, kickstart files, and HTML documentation with XSLT. A system administrator of a RedHat/Fedora Linux network can specify the setup of all the computers in a single XML Y2K Matrix a suite of utilities for testing a Linux/UNIX server for date and time issues after the year 1999 YASIS YASIS is a Perl script that displays a variety of system statistics concerning distribution, kernel, running processes, uptime, CPU(s), memory, video, disk usage, and network. It also has a GTK2 menu that allows you to select which statistics to view.
