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A curated list of amazingly awesome open source sysadmin resources inspired by Awesome PHP.

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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

  • Ajenti

    Control panel for Linux and BSD.

  • Cockpit

    New multi-server web interface for Linux servers written in C.

  • Feathur

    VPS Provisioning and Management Software.

  • Froxlor

    Easy to use panel for Linux with Nginx and PHP-FPM support.

  • ISPConfig

    Hosting control panel for Linux.

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

  • Analog

    Logfile Analyser.

  • AWStats

    Generates web, streaming, ftp or mail server statistics graphically.

  • GoAccess

    Real-time web log analyzer and interactive viewer that runs in a terminal.

Configuration Management

  • Ansible

    It's written in Python and manages the nodes over SSH.

  • CFEngine

    Lightweight agent system. Configuration state is specified via a declarative language.

  • Chef

    It's written in Ruby and Erlang and uses a pure-Ruby DSL.

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