This blog series features the top-performing projects on SourceForge under specific categories. This week, we feature the top 5 Systems Administration Software of the Week available on SourceForge.
Systems administration is a key role in most, if not all businesses and operations today as these rely heavily on computer systems on a daily basis. The duties involved in systems administration are wide-ranging, but essentially revolve around keeping computer systems and all related services functioning in the best way possible. To do that, system administrators must arm themselves with the right software and tools.
Here are the top 5 Systems Administration Software available here at SourceForge, based on weekly downloads:
Webmin is a web-based interface for system administration for Unix. Using any modern web browser, Webmin allows you to setup user accounts, Apache, DNS, file sharing and much more. Webmin removes the need to manually edit Unix configuration files like /etc/passwd, and lets you manage a system from the console or remotely.
[ Download Webmin ]
Ophcrack is a Windows password cracker based on a time-memory trade-off using rainbow tables. This is a new variant of Hellman’s original trade-off, with better performance. It recovers 99.9% of alphanumeric passwords in seconds. Features include cracking of LM and NTLM Windows hashes, free tables (for Windows XP, Vista and 7), brute-force module for simple passwords, and audit mode and CSV export.
WinDirStat (Windows Directory Statistics) is a disk usage statistics viewer and cleanup tool for Windows. On start up, WinDirStat reads the whole directory tree once and then presents it in three useful views:
– The directory list, which resembles the tree view of the Windows Explorer but is sorted by file/subtree size,
– The treemap, which shows the whole contents of the directory tree straight away,
– The extension list, which serves as a legend and shows statistics about the file types.
[ Download Windows Directory Statistics ]
S.M.A.R.T. Monitoring Tools is derived from smartsuite and 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.
[ Download S.M.A.R.T. Monitoring Tools ]
Pandora FMS: Flexible Monitoring System
Pandora FMS is an enterprise-ready monitoring solution that provides unparalleled flexibility for IT to address both immediate and unforeseen operational issues, including infrastructure and IT processes. It uniquely enables business and IT to adapt to changing needs through a flexible and rapid approach to IT and business deployment.
Pandora FMS consolidates all the needs of modern monitoring (ITOM, APM, BAM) and provides status and performance metrics from different operating systems, virtual infrastructure (VMware, Hyper-V, XEN), Docker containers, applications, storage and hardware devices such as firewalls, proxies, databases, web servers or routers.
It’s highly scalable (up to 2000 nodes with one single server), 100% web and with multi-tenant capabilities. It has a very flexible ACL system and several different graphical reports and user-defined control screens.
See and know more of the many other Systems Administration Software available on SourceForge here.