Open Source Systems Administration Software

smartmontools contains utility programs (smartctl, smartd) to control/monitor storage systems using the Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology System (S.M.A.R.T.) built into most modern ATA and SCSI disks. It is derived from smartsuite.

Zabbix is an enterprise-class open source distributed monitoring solution designed to monitor and track performance and availability of network servers, devices and other IT resources. It supports distributed and WEB monitoring, auto-discovery, and more. An enterprise-class distributed monitoring solution for networks & apps

swatchdog.pl started out as swatch, the "simple watchdog" for activity monitoring log files produced by UNIX's syslog facility. It has since been evolving into a utility that can monitor just about any type of log. The name has been changed to satisfy a request made by the old Swiss watch company.

NSClient++ is a windows service that allows performance metrics to be gathered by Nagios (and possibly other monitoring tools). It is an attempt to create a NSClient and NRPE compatible but yet extendable performance service for windows.

BASE is the Basic Analysis and Security Engine. It is based on the code from the Analysis Console for Intrusion Databases (ACID) project. This application provides a web front-end to query and analyze the alerts coming from a SNORT IDS system.

NOTE PROJECT MIGRATED TO GITHUB - https://github.com/samrocketman/ekeyfinder is a Magical Jelly Bean Keyfinder fork. It is a utility that retrieves the product key used to install Windows from your registry or from an unbootable Windows installation. It works on Windows 9X, ME, NT/2K/XP, and Vista/Win7 and for other software.

ASC is a tool to count traffic between users and different subnets. The most common usage is to measure individual users amount of traffic to and from the internet. Very easy to configure, see the documentation.

Logsurfer is a program for monitoring system logs in real-time, and reporting on the occurrence of events. It is capable of grouping information together to enhance loganalysis and create automatic reports.

xrootconsole tails a file in a window on your X11 root window. It aims to be as simple and resource-light as possible, within reason: it should run smootlhy on a P133 laptop. The program is non-interactive; all configuration is done on the command line.

A complete OpenSource Network Management System Is SNMP-Standard Oriented (tested on Cisco and Linux). It Integrates Syslog, Tacacs, RRDtool (Performance Graphs), Maps, Traps, TFTP, Autodiscovery, Sound Alerts, AAA, Modular and Extensible.

Hyperic is application monitoring and performance management for virtual, physical, and cloud infrastructures. Auto-discover resources of 75+ technologies, including vSphere, and collect availability, performance, utilization, and throughput metrics.

Erlaubt es ein Temperaturmodul von Tinkerforge im Sekundentakt abzufragen. Es können Min. und Max. Werte in °C eingegeben werden. Werden diese unter- oder überschritten, so kann eine EMail generiert werden. Die Temperatur kann auch in eine Logdatei mitprotokolliert werden.

The fetchlog utility displays the last new messages of a logfile (syslog). fetchlog is similar like tail but offers some extra functionality like pattern matching with regular expressions, output formatting for email, SMS, pager or SNMP tools, etc.

logview4net is a log viewer/log monitor for data created by various sources. It can listen to UDP, tail a file, tail a SQL table, monitor the eventlog and watch RSS and Atom feeds. It requires the Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0

SRG is a log file analyser and report generator for the Squid web proxy. It is fast and was created to allow easy integration with other authentication systems. SRG is flexible and can report right down the the level of individual files requested.

Monitors several server logs at real-time simultaneously all in one tool. The viewer updates and scrolls automatically when the log file changes... a MUST HAVE utility tool for developers. Visit http://tracelog.sourceforge.net for more information.

netleak is a collection of small perlscripts that detects connectivity between network segments. It is mostly useful to detect "leaks" in large organizations that have private network segments physically separated from the Internet.

HealthMonitor is a free powerful and featureful system monitoring tool for Windows. It works as a Windows Service and check system status (event viewer, disk free space, services status, performance....) and notify the administration by E-Mail, SMS ...

Simple (low requirements) log viewer for use in embedded servers.

evtViewer is a viewer for Ms event (*.evt) log files written in PERL.

Alist is a program that collects hardware and software information about systems and stores it in a database for users to browse and search via a Web interface. The program consists of three parts: a client portion that collects the information, a daemon

A mysql (5.x) log database able to log events in a single or multi system/application environment. Written completely as mysql stored procedures with a secure simple log interface using direct access to database or via a web/soap service.

FWNUA (Free Windows Network User Accounting) runs silently in a Windows login script or GPO and collects data about user logins. FWNUA keeps track of the workstations logins so you don't have to! FWNUA now supports syslog and Splunk! Look for the fwnua - syslog version in the files list. Use Splunk or your own syslog server with data mining tools to create a robust user tracking system. Find our Spunk app on Splukbase: https://splunkbase.splunk.com/app/2773/

[ set status to abandon - volunteers welcome ] The postfix-logwatch / amavis-logwatch log analyzers produce summaries, reports and statistics regarding the operation of postfix and amavis. Use standalone, or as a filter module for the open source logwatch utility.

Big Sister is an SNMP aware network and system monitor