Open Source Perl Systems Administration Software - Page 29

With phpAdamoto it is possible to administrate many clients and servers from a web console powered by php. It lets you start and monitor any script on client machines to do any kind of administrative work like changing configurations, install software an

phpPrintAdmin is a printing administration web gui for administrating unix servers with LPRng/IFHP/Samba in a centralized manner (even if you have multiple print servers).

A Webmin clone written entirely in PHP (including the server/modules) Currently supports only special php modules but CGI (FastCGI) support will added some day. Configure your server with this 'tool'. Looking for people to work on modules and the server.

A distributed request/problem tracking system based on 'wreq', utilizing PHP and mySQL. Includes scripts for converting existing wreq databases.

pjobs allows you to easily schedule jobs to both run serially and in parietal. This gives you the ability to run multiple sets of serial jobs in parietal. This allows jobs to be run more efficiently with less dead time in between them.

A FreeBSD console utility that finds, lists and possibly removes unreferenced packages. It lets the user choose which packages to remove and which ones to keep. It maintains a keep-list file, so previously kept packages will be skipped automatically.

NOTE: development of place has ceased (a long time ago actually...) There are many other fully developed tools for managing system configuration (Spacewalk, Puppet, etc). Place was conceived many moons ago when these tools were less available... feel free to continue using it if you find a need though. Place allows you to "place" a file in its "live location" (presumably after making changes and testing) on the current system w/out having to remember where every file goes on every system you administer. Place keeps track of "live locations" via MySQL.

pluma is a web-based LDAP user editor/management application.

pmping (pmping is a multi ping script). A script to ping multiple hosts, and check for their availability and responsiveness. It sends beeps through the internal speaker, suitable for servers and/or headless monitoring.

PNETPROBE is a series of Perl scripts to catch and manage tcpdump data. It uses MySQL to dump data, and uses GD::Graph for all plotting functions. This tool will be ideal to see what is flowing in how many quantities on your network.

A daemon that monitors authentications via POP3 and IMAP, and allows hosts that have authentiated to relay mail via sendmail for a short period of time.

PortUp is a ports tree updating tool for OpenBSD. It's goal is to easily keep the ports tree and installed packages up-to-date on an OpenBSD box.

Postfix-zlist is a log analizer for postfix. It is tested for Zimbra Collaboration Server. Reports are presented on web-pages for each user for sent, received and blocked emails (blacklist, greylist, clamav).

A set of tools to generate and build a customized initramfs, for simple mounting tasks, such as setting up a unionfs system. Written for a small footprint and fast execution. Compatible with both glibc and uClibc.

This program runs ps periodically and can match against process patterns trigger if some ps-property about them exists. For example it might be used to ensure that a daemon is running or is not running too many times. It might be used to determine wh

Pwdrill enables a user to make use of passwords of ideal complexity and obscurity without being temped to write them down.

qcleaner is an addon perl utility for mail servers and exchangers that run qmail with qmail-scanner. It cleans the queue by scanning the directory for bounces, then checks if the message is either spam (as tagged by spamassassin) or a qmail-scanner repo

qos-htb is the easy bandwidth management solution you've been waiting for and graphix makes graphs from which you can see in a second exactly who's eating the bandwidth !

Rackview is a Perl module that assists in visualizing a Data Center\'s computer rack layouts by creating a web page with HTML tables to show a frontview of the racks. Included are brief commandline and CGI scripts to demonstrate its implementation.

Some utilities to work in conjunction with Rancid from Shrubbery Networks, Inc. (http://www.shrubbery.net/rancid/). Includes integration with Trac (http://trac.edgewall.org/) and some Cisco-specific utilities.

We are building a more secure way to admin a serverfarm without have root-accounds after installation by using ssh and sudo.

Regutils is a collection of programs to help in managing the configuration of Windows software and systems. The utilities can be used to apply user and machine specific customizations on the fly as users log in or as machines are booted. They can also be used to identify and correct similarities and differences between software configurations. These may be helpful in debug situations or when consistency or differences need to be maintained. The regutils package was initially created and maintained by Michael Rendell at http://www.cs.mun.ca/~michael/regutils through version 0.10, but is now maintained here. Binary package download of the INI Diff and Patch utilities alone without the older registry utils can be found here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/inidiffutils

<b>relink</b> is a <i>package management tool</i> for organization and management of software packages. It should run on any UNIX platform that runs PERL. Similar tools include: rpm(REDHAT/Mandrake), pkgadd(Slackware/SUN), stow(GNU) and depot(CMU)

Perl script to rebuild Gentoo's Portage SVN/CVS installed packages, taking care of dependencies and emerge ordering.

Rover is a Perl package that provides a means of executing commands on remote machines via SSH, Telnet, or Rsh. Connections are made and then managed using Expect for Perl. A distinct advantage of Rover is its ability to process many hosts in parallel.