Open Source Systems Administration Software

TurboVNC is a high-performance, enterprise-quality version of VNC based on TightVNC, TigerVNC, and X.org. It contains a variant of Tight encoding that is tuned for maximum performance and compression with 3D applications (VirtualGL), video, and other image-intensive workloads. TurboVNC, in combination with VirtualGL, provides a complete solution for remotely displaying 3D applications with interactive performance. TurboVNC's high-speed encoding methods have been adopted by TigerVNC and libvncserver, and TurboVNC is also compatible with any other TightVNC derivative. TurboVNC forked from TightVNC in 2004 and still covers all of the TightVNC 1.3.x features, but TurboVNC contains numerous feature enhancements and bug fixes relative to TightVNC, and it compresses 3D and video workloads much better than TightVNC while using generally only 5-20% of the CPU time of the latter. Using non-default settings, TurboVNC can also be made to compress 2D workloads as "tightly" as TightVNC.

Ganglia is a scalable distributed monitoring system for high-performance computing systems such as clusters and Grids. It is based on a hierarchical design targeted at federations of clusters. Supports clusters up to 2000 nodes in size.

MX4J is an Open Source implementation of the Java Management Extensions technology, for both JSR 3 (JMX) and JSR 160 (JMX Remote API).

rshd is a multithreaded daemon service that listens for connections on port 514 (tcp port for the shell/cmd protocol), runs commands passed by clients and sends back the results.

Mesh is a secure, lightweight grid middleware that is based on the addition of a single sign-on capability to the built-in public key authentication mechanism of SSH using system call interposition.

Reliable group communication based on IP multicast and configurable protocol stack

Acelet-Scheduler with SuperScheduler and SuperWatchdog is a Java task scheduler with daemon and GUI for system and application job scheduling, can schedule tasks in a distributed environment. Holiday adjustable. Works out-box. See http://www.acelet.com

Bugkilla is a set of java tools for the functional test of J2EE Web Applications. Specification and execution of tests will be automated for web front end and business logic layer. One goal is to integrate with existing frameworks and tools.

CACANMS is an acronym for Computer Aided Campus Area Network Management System. The system consists of software components and a library of about 60 classes. It is divided into three types of subsystems which reside on different servers and communicate.

Clockwork is an enterprise job scheduler. It's like a distributed cron, but with more features like redundancy, complex job dependencies, and graphical representation of job schedules.

DPytHOS is a means for administrators of large networks to both monitor and manage the servers under their control. DPytHOS is implemented in python and uses a generic database back-end (with MySQL supported and MS-SQL 2000 supported via XML)

FAST addresses lifecycle, provisioning, & management of distributed applications with a 3-pronged approach: reusable XML Module Descriptors, flexible query XML Configuration Descriptors to aggregate modules, and a non-intrusive distributed infrastructure

Freenet, Entropy, and Samizdat Controller is a small application which allows you to control Freenet, Entropy, and Samizdat. This project is looking for a new maintainer.

GXP is a parallel/distributed shell, plus a parallel task execution engine that runs your Makefile in parallel on distributed machines. Very easy to install (no need to compile. install it on YOUR machine and use it on ALL machines).

Identity and service provisioning software component allows service developers to automate the creation, modification and deletion of users' identity and service subscription information on multiple disparate identity stores.

The project aims at developing J2EE Connector Architecture 1.0 Compilant Resource Adapters for integrating various EIS's like XML files, XML DB, LDAP, FTP, SMTP, POP3, Point Of Sale, Properties File, Office Documents

This toolkit consists of three small tools which enable the user to deploy, overview and undeploy any JSR88/J2EE1.4 conformant application into any JSR88/J2EE1.4 conformant app. server. Our target is to become the I******Shield of the J2EE world.

The 'Monitor' application, which consists of 2 parts, a MonitorServer (linux daemon) and a MonitorClient (java gui), will enable the user to monitor and log server process, memory, network and cpu information of multiple servers at a time.

MACOW is a formal and scalable mandatory access implementation suitable on open worlds such as the provided on Semantic Web, Autonomic Computing and Coaltions and Federations scenarios. It is able to access control on distributed systems.

The Maui Scheduler is a tool to to extend the capabilities of existing resource manager systems such as PBS, SGE, Loadleveler, and so forth. It provides powerful tools for managing and optimizing clusters systems and features to enable effective use of t

Open, fast, robust grid for distributing computing, processes etc. A great alternative to overpriced commercial products such as DataSynapse. Not constrained by standards: contribute to invent new grid computing.

Nariz is a distributed alert correlation system, that performs alarm correlation in two phases, preprocessing locally and distributed postprocessing. By splitting the correlation system amongst several computers.

NiBaWS is a WebService implementing many of the functions provided by Passport.NET. Each WebMaster may supply user identification and administration (including Single Sign-On) simply using SOAP messages.

The Node Director is a tool for managing distributed, hetergeneous UNIX Systems. Its functionality includes System Configuration, Application Distribution, NIS & NIS+ Management, User Creation and Dynamic System Documentation.

NIUS allows reservation of nodes under it's control for exclusive interactive use by a group of users. This system is in use by National Center for Data Mining at University of Illinois in Chicago to reserve workstations for researchers.