awesome-sysadmin
github.com/kahun/awesome-sysadmin ↗A curated list of amazingly awesome open source sysadmin resources inspired by Awesome PHP.
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LDAP
- 389 Directory Server
Developed by Red Hat.
- Apache Directory Server
Apache Software Foundation project written in Java.
- Apache Directory Studio
The Eclipse-based LDAP browser and directory client
- Fusion Directory
Improve the Management of the services and the company directory based on OpenLDAP.
Queuing
- ActiveMQ
An open source message broker written in Java together with a full JMS client.
- BeanstalkD
A simple, fast work queue.
- Gearman
Fast multi-language queuing/job processing platform.
- Kafka
A high-throughput distributed messaging system.
Monitoring
- Adagios
Web based Nagios configuration interface.
- Alerta
Distributed, scaleable and flexible monitoring system.
- Cabot
Monitoring and alerts, similar to PagerDuty.
- Cacti
Web-based network monitoring and graphing tool.
- Canopsis
Opensource Hypervision and Data Aggregation Software
- Centreon
IT infrastructure and application monitoring for service performance.
SSH
- Advanced SSH config
Enhances ssh_config file capabilities, completely transparent.
- autossh
Automatically respawn ssh session after network interruption.
- Cluster SSH
Controls a number of xterm windows via a single graphical console.
- DSH
Dancer's shell / distributed shell - Wrapper for executing multiple remote shell commands from one command line.
Control Panels
Backups
- Amanda
Client-server model backup tool.
- Attic
A deduplicating backup program written in Python.
- Backup
Provides an elegant DSL in Ruby for performing backups on UNIX-like systems.
- Backupninja
Lightweight, extensible meta-backup system.
- Backuppc
Client-server model backup tool with file pooling scheme.
- Bacula
Another Client-server model backup tool.
Statistics
Cloud Orchestration
- Ansible
Contains modules for controlling many types of cloud resources.
- BOSH
IaaS orchestration platform originally written for deploying and managing Cloud Foundry PaaS, but also useful for general purpose distributed systems.
- Cloudify
Open source TOSCA-based cloud orchestration software platform written in Python and YAML.
- etcd
A highly-available key value store for shared configuration and service discovery.
- Juju
Cloud orchestration tool which manages services as charms, YAML configuration and deployment script bundles.
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