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Incident Response

Dispatch – manage security incidents by deeply integrating with existing tools

November 4, 2023 Steve Emms System Software

Dispatch helps effectively manage security incidents by deeply integrating with existing tools used throughout an organization.

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Incident Response

Alertmanager – handles alerts sent by client applications

November 4, 2023 Steve Emms System Software

The Alertmanager handles alerts sent by client applications such as the Prometheus server.

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Incident Response

Cabot – monitoring and alerts service

November 4, 2023 Steve Emms System Software

Cabot is a self-hosted infrastructure monitoring platform that provides features of PagerDuty, Server Density, Pingdom and Nagios.

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Backup

BackuPy – simple backup program

November 2, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

BackuPy is a simple backup program in python with an emphasis on data integrity and transparent behaviour. The software has a command line interface. This is free and open source software. Key Features Backup, Mirror, and Sync Modes. Compare files

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Backup

Backer – simple program to automate rsync backups

November 2, 2023 Steve Emms System Software

Backer is a visual front end to the rsync command. This is free and open source software written in Pascal.

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Log Analyzers

Pandora FMS – monitoring software for IT infrastructure management

October 29, 2023 Steve Emms System Software

Pandora FMS is an open source monitoring software. Watch your systems and applications, and know the status of any element of those systems.

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Log Analyzers

Xymon – system for monitoring servers and networks

October 29, 2023 Steve Emms System Software

Xymon is a system for monitoring of hosts and networks, inspired by the Big Brother system.

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Log Analyzers

Icinga – monitoring platform with a powerful configuration language

October 29, 2023 Steve Emms System Software

Icinga is a monitoring system checking the availability of network resources, notifies outages, and generates performance data for reporting.

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Log Analyzers

Monitorix – lightweight system monitoring tool

October 29, 2023 Steve Emms System Software

Monitorix is a free, lightweight, open source system monitoring tool designed to monitor as many services as possible.

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Log Analyzers

FreeNATS – network manager

October 29, 2023 Steve Emms System Software

FreeNATS is a PHP and MySQL based automatic network status testing, alerting and reporting package. FreeNATS allows you to test your network.

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Log Analyzers

NetXMS – network and infrastructure monitoring and management system

October 29, 2023 Steve Emms System Software

NetXMS is a network and infrastructure monitoring and management system. NetXMS is free and open source software.

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Log Analyzers

Cacti – complete network graphing solution

October 29, 2023 Steve Emms System Software

Cacti is an open source, web-based frontend to RRDtool, the industry standard, high performance data logging and graphing system for time series data.

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Log Analyzers

Monit – utility for managing and monitoring Unix systems

October 29, 2023 Steve Emms System Software

Monit is a utility for managing and monitoring processes, files, directories and filesystems on a Unix system.

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Log Analyzers

ZABBIX – real-time monitoring of millions of metrics

October 29, 2023 Steve Emms System Software

ZABBIX is an all-in-one 24×7 free monitoring solution that monitors numerous parameters of a network and the health and integrity of servers.

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Log Analyzers

LibreNMS – fully featured network monitoring system

October 29, 2023 Steve Emms System Software

LibreNMS is a fully featured network monitoring system that provides a wealth of features and device support.

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Log Analyzers

OpenNMS – platform designed for building network monitoring solutions

October 29, 2023 Steve Emms System Software

OpenNMS is an enterprise grade network monitoring platform developed under the Open Source model. OpenNMS has a wide variety of monitors available.

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Log Analyzers

Nagios – host and service monitor

October 29, 2023 Steve Emms System Software

Nagios is a host and service monitor designed to inform you of network problems. The monitoring daemon runs periodic checks on hosts and services.

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Log Analyzers

Mon – general-purpose resource monitoring system

October 29, 2023 Steve Emms System Software

Mon is a tool for monitoring the availability of services. Services may be network-related, environmental conditions, or more.

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Hard drive

Partimage – disk backup software

October 29, 2023 Steve Emms System Software

Partimage is a console based utility which stores partitions to a image file providing that the filesystem in use is supported.

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Hard drive

G4L – hard disk and partition imaging and cloning tool

October 29, 2023 Steve Emms System Software

G4L is a free and open source ncurses-based hard disk and partition imaging and cloning tool. The created images are optionally compressed.

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