Open Source Ruby Networking Software

Zero Install is a decentralised cross-distribution software installation system. Create one package that works everywhere! With dependency handling and automatic updates, full support for shared libraries, and integration with native package managers

Oxidized is a network device configuration backup and management tool that automates the process of collecting, storing, and versioning configurations from various networking hardware. Inspired by RANCID, it provides a scalable and Git-based approach to network configuration management, making it easier to track and roll back changes.

The WiKID Strong Authentication System is a public-key based two-factor authentication system. It is a flexible, extensible, and secure alternative to tokens, certs and passwords. Application & API support exists for Java, ASP, PHP, Ruby, OpenVPN, TACACS+, etc. Read our eGuide on how to setup your network with two-factor authentication: http://www.wikidsystems.com/learn-more/two-factor-authentication-white-papers

SIGAR (System Information Gatherer and Reporter) is a cross-platform, cross-language library and command-line tool for accessing operating system and hardware level information in Java, Perl and .NET.

A fast deployment tool that generates Bash scripts to automate server deployment processes.

PGHero (ankane/pghero) is an open-source tool for monitoring and analyzing PostgreSQL database performance, built to provide insights into query behavior, index usage, replication lag, and resource bottlenecks. It runs alongside your application (often as a Rails engine, but usable standalone) and collects metrics from PostgreSQL system views, logging slow queries, long-running transactions, and missing indexes. The web interface presents dashboards with charts and tables that help you understand trends, spot inefficient queries, and identify opportunities for optimization. PGHero supports customizable thresholds and notifications, so you can be alerted when slowness or index problems emerge. It also includes views of replication and connection statistics, helping teams monitor operational health without deploying external monitoring tools.

The libptpmgmt Project provides a library to communicate with LinuxPTP using IEEE 1558 management messages over a network.

Lucie enables parallel network installation of large numbers of nodes from one single administration server. It is designed to be scalable and efficient, so a complete Linux cluster can be built from scratch in a short amount of time.

RogueScanner is a network security tool for automatically discovering rogue wireless access points by scanning a wired network. In addition to finding access points, it will classify all discovered network devices

SSHMenu is a GNOME panel applet that allows you to start up an SSH connection in a new terminal window with a single click. A preferences dialog allows you to add and organise host connections and specify fonts, colors and window geometry.

FHAP is a web front-end to the nmap port scanner. It makes use of Perl and a PostgreSQL database to identify system/port trends on a network.

The Fault Injection Toolkit is a sophisticated modern protocol fuzzing platform.

XCAST6 is an implementation of XCAST over IPv6. XCAST is a new, flexible scheme for multicast suitable for a very large number of groups.

Ruby interface for libpcap packet capture library

Squid Log Analyzer and Report Generator.

netboot65 allows 6502 based computers to boot via a network. Currently only the C64 version is actively developed and tested. Also includes telnet and gopher clients, and a "web application server" for development of web sites in 6502 assembler.

Aaron is an application, service, and network availability monitoring and alert daemon. Notification of unavailable services, networks, etc., levels is sent to the appropriate roles. Aaron is highly customizable enterprise class monitoring software.

Local DNS server, that act as a proxy and will rewrite request according to a config file and an "active" environement. Usefull to switch easily between diffent configuration without touch the host file. small web server embeded to display current configuration, control active environment and reload configuraiton.

ENCAM is an asset management database and configuration backup tool for Cisco network devices. ENCAM pulls configuration data from devices, stores it, reports changes, analyzes configuration defects, generates asset lists and compliance reports.

In digital visual effects we deal with an overwhelming number of images. Earth simplifies the management of this data by continuously tracking the whereabouts of image sequences across a filesystem or visual effects facility.

Etch is a cross-platform, language- and transport-independent framework for building and consuming network services. With Etch, service development and consumption becomes no more difficult than library development and consumption.

GRAIL Real Time Location Service (RTLS)

A Web based software written in with Ruby on Rails to manage and delegate ip ranges for small to large companies. It also generates BIND 9 config files for the BIND server.

A front-end GUI for quickly and easily editing/managing iptables rules. It's written in Ruby, and depends on Gtk+ 2.

Insidias is a next-generation intrusion detection engine, with a focus on speed, efficiency, advanced pattern matching, parallel-processing, modularity, and expandability.