Desktop, device, network and server management
From SME Guide
CMDBuild
CMDbuild is a web-based configuration and management database. The system manages hardware resources, software, services and documents in an integrated fashion, and is inspired by the ITIL best practices. It can be integrated with external help desk and automated inventory systems.
Enomalism
The Enomalism Virtualized Management Dashboard (VMD) is a powerful web-based virtual server manager. Designed to answer the complexity of managing globally disperse virtual server environments. Enomalism helps to ease the transition to a virtualized environment by reducing an IT organizations overall workload. The easy to use dashboard can help with issues including deployment planning, load balancing, automatic VM migration, configuration management, and capacity diagnosis. Similar to VMware's Vmotion, Enomalism supports live relocation and dynamic memory control for virtual machines using Intel Virtualization Technology (Intel VT) or AMD Virtualization (AMD-V) hardware-assisted virtualization, which enables dynamic resource scheduling and “no-downtime maintenance” of Microsoft Windows-based virtual infrastructures. The Enomalism simple firewall allows you to assign your virtual machines resources to user-defined groups and define firewall rules in terms of these groups and end usage. As VM resources are added to or removed from groups, the appropriate rules are enforced. Similarly, if a group's rules are changed these changes are automatically applied to all members of the affected group. Perfect for diverse & geographically disperse hosting environments.
Hyperic
http://www.hyperic.com/ FLOSSMETRICS link: http://melquiades.flossmetrics.org/projects/hyperic-hq FLOSSMETRICS quality evaluation: http://melquiades.flossmetrics.org/projects/hyperic-hq/quality
Hyperic HQ is the industry's only comprehensive product that provides cross-stack visibility for software in production, whether it's open source, commercial, or a hybrid. As a result, companies can now centrally manage the fast-moving technologies of the Next Generation Data Center, and more efficiently and effectively avoid costly downtime. An extensible system, Hyperic HQ manages all kinds of operating systems, web servers, application servers and database servers. Using the Hyperic HQ Portal, the software can be quickly configured to monitor, alert, diagnose and control most types of applications. Key benefits include:
- Auto-Discovery of asset inventory with one click
- Monitors metrics of 65+ technologies across 9 OSes
- Tracks performance, configuration and security changes
- Maximizes availability with alerting and corrective control actions to address problems before they occur
- Extends, Customizes to best manage your unique environment needs
- Accurately model and display relationships between your hardware, software, and services
- Detect every aspect of your hardware and software automatically, including memory, CPU, disk & network devices, and version & configuration information
- Generate events about any change in configuration or key attributes of any managed resource and use it to alert IT administrators
- Check the health of your hardware and software resources from a single, easy-to-navigate view
- Collect real-time and historical metrics from production hardware, network and application layers of your infrastructure without invasive instrumentation
- Define intelligent alerts which help you anticipate problems before they cause outages
- Compare and correlate metrics for different resources with customizable indicator views that help you understand interactions between them
- Chart key metrics for resources and groups in a single view to quickly assess the state of your environment
- Report real-time and historical details of any log event generated by any managed resource
- Track the configuration of any host or application to facilitate impact analysis and change control
- Enforce security policies by detecting and logging any physical or remote access into any host in your environment
- Define alerts to track to specific log messages anywhere in your environment
- Correlate any log event, configuration change, or security event to the availability of your environment
NetDirector
NetDirector is a client-server application that allows you to simultaneously manage a large number of servers from a single web browser running on any platform. The NetDirector Server Manager web user Interface uses AJAX (asynchronous javascript and XML) to give the same rich client experience of a desktop application but with the flexibility to use the server manager from any desktop browser.
OpenQRM
openQRM is a proven, open source systems management platform that integrates with existing components in complex data centers to create scalable and highly-available infrastructures. Among the features:
- Manages thousands of servers
- Tracks your data center’s usage and utilization while generating detailed reports
- Assigns servers to users and applications according to defined policies
- Dynamically adjusts the amount of allocated servers according to actual usage
- Provides high availability for enterprise services and applications
- Redeploy applications and prepare machines for maintenance with a single click
- Separate running applications from physical servers, thereby allowing flexible use of resources and ease of management
- Advanced image management allows shared resources between similar environments
- Supports booting servers from local disk, NAS or iSCSI
- Supports different partitioning technologies, such as VMWare and Xen
- Full support for servers running Linux 2.4 and 2.6
- Partial support for servers running Microsoft Windows
- Use simple tools to add servers and applications to the openQRM management coverage
- Integrate and leverage existing infrastructure software such as VMWare, Nagios and others
- Use ready made packages to support specific configurations like 3-tier web applications environment
- Secure Web Interface provides easy management and control
- Powerful Command Line Interface (CLI) allows custom scripts
- Complete "triggers" mechanism allows users to hook their own applications and scripts to events happening in the system
- Advanced Plug-in architecture allows the addition of new components to any part of the system — including user interface, monitoring agents, decision engines and more
- Plug-ins can be written in Java, PHP or any scripting language
- Open Source Code allows advanced users to modify the system according to their needs
Opsi
opsi - in production use since 10 years - provides a tool for remotely installing operating systems, deploying software and inventorying hard- and software. While it is based on a Linux server its primary targets are Windows work stations.
Spacewalk
http://www.redhat.com/spacewalk/
Spacewalk is an open source (GPLv2) Linux systems management solution. It is the upstream community project from which the Red Hat Network Satellite product is derived. Spacewalk manages software content updates for Red Hat Enterprise Linux and other Linux distributions such as Fedora, CentOS, and Scientific Linux, within your firewall. You can stage software content through different environments, managing the deployment of updates to systems and allowing you to view at which update level any given system is at across your deployment. A clean central web interface allows viewing of systems and their software update status, and initiating update actions. In addition to software content management, Spacewalk provides provisioning and monitoring capabilities. It will enable you to kickstart systems, as well as manage and deploy configuration files. Spacewalk's monitoring feature allows you to view monitoring status for your systems alongside their software update status. Spacewalk also has virtualization capabilities to enable you to provision, control, manage, and monitor virtual Xen guests.
WireShark
http://www.wireshark.org FLOSSMETRICS link: http://melquiades.flossmetrics.org/projects/wireshark
Wireshark is the world's foremost network protocol analyzer, and is the de facto (and often de jure) standard across many industries and educational institutions. It features:
- Hundreds of protocols are supported, with more being added all the time
- Live capture and offline analysis
- Standard three-pane packet browser
- Multi-platform: Runs on Windows, Linux, OS X, Solaris, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and many others
- Captured network data can be browsed via a GUI, or via the TTY-mode TShark utility
- The most powerful display filters in the industry
- Rich VoIP analysis
- Read/write many different capture file formats: tcpdump (libpcap), Catapult DCT2000, Cisco Secure IDS iplog, Microsoft Network Monitor, Network General Sniffer (compressed and uncompressed), Sniffer Pro, and NetXray, Network Instruments Observer, Novell LANalyzer, RADCOM WAN/LAN Analyzer, Shomiti/Finisar Surveyor, Tektronix K12xx, Visual Networks Visual UpTime, WildPackets EtherPeek/TokenPeek/AiroPeek, and many others
- Capture files compressed with gzip can be decompressed on the fly
- Live data can be read from Ethernet, IEEE 802.11, PPP/HDLC, ATM, Bluetooth, USB, Token Ring, Frame Relay, FDDI, and others (depending on your platfrom)
- Decryption support for many protocols, including IPsec, ISAKMP, Kerberos, SNMPv3, SSL/TLS, WEP, and WPA/WPA2
- Coloring rules can be applied to the packet list for quick, intuitive analysis
- Output can be exported to XML, PostScript, CSV, or plain text
Zenoss
http://www.zenoss.com/ FLOSSMETRICS link: http://melquiades.flossmetrics.org/projects/zenoss FLOSSMETRICS quality evaluation: http://melquiades.flossmetrics.org/projects/zenoss/quality
Zenoss provides a complete suite of software and services help you succeed in monitoring your IT infrastructure. Our software provides a single, integrated solution for monitoring your entire IT infrastructure - network, servers, applications, across the full lifecycle - inventory, configuration, availability, performance, events. Through our unique approach our goal is to overcome the common hurdles to achieving effective IT monitoring and management. At the heart of Zenoss Core is Zenoss Configuration Management Database (CMDB). The CDMB houses a unified model of the IT environment and is basis of Zenoss' "model-driven" IT monitoring and approach. Among the features:
- Modeling of entire environment including networks, servers, software, and applications
- Mapping of IT elements and cross-platform information into a normalized data schema
- Logical and physical grouping and mapping to business systems, locations and responsible parties
- Population through auto-discovery, web services API, XML import/export, and manual user input
- Configuration policies that specify required configuration items
- Autodiscovery
- automatic change history and detection
- scheduling
- Grouping, Organization, Association, Classification
- reporting
ZipTie
ZipTie is an open source framework for Network Inventory and Configuration Management. It will help you discover and manage your network devices such as routers, switches, and firewalls. ZipTie is free to download, use, and distribute under the Mozilla Public License (MPL v1.1). It supports out of the box the following hardware:
- Cisco IOS based routers/switches
- Juniper devices
- Linksys VPN routers
- Vyatta routers
- Nortel BayStack switches
