Open Source Python Systems Administration Software - Page 5

Awesum is an automated graphical checksum verification utility written in Python using the PyGTK toolkit. It currently supports both MD5 and SHA checksums.

BLUSA is a set of shell scripts (mainly for Bash) intended to manage users accounts in bulk. It is mainly based on createusers, from Linux For School Project (www.lfsp.org), but intended to be more modular, flexible and secure.

Buckeye is an apache/postgres/python based account management system for service and subscription providers. Service provisioning, accounting, billing and reporting functions are included.

BusyB is an automated continuous build system. BusyB allows you to automatically rebuild your system at regularly scheduled intervals or simply when someone changes something. Or both.

A useful collection of batch files and scripts for daily purposes (backup, security, system management, etc.) and development

CGIgen is a collection of classes that are useful in data-encapsulation esp. for CGI-scripts. It also includes other classes that may be helpful in writing CGI-scripts.

This is a simple utility for selectively removing files from a remote folder. It provides a textual interface with checkboxes to let you choose which files you want to erase from your drive. Requires python and urwid library installed.

Centralized package manager (CPacMan) - package management (redistribution) solution for server farms. Central package redistribution system increases security and improves manageability.

It is a Uruguayan Linux distribution. Can be used from floppy disks, cdroom or you can install it in your hard disk. It has been designed to be fast and effective without leaving of side the graphical aspect for the user.

This project allow to test network availability on multiple nodes. It is built as a plugin architecture in order to use it on multiples networks. Test is based on three steps : module status, local visibility of network, and interconnection between nodes

Did you ever copy many files to a portable usb-harddisk and use another system to update or delete files ? And later have trouble to find the few files you changed among all the others ? CompareDir does just that: it can compare 2 directories + subdirectories and you decide what files you want to keep, copy or delete. Manual: point it at a MasterDir, a SlaveDir than click "Diff" = show only the files that are available in only 1 directory-tree. Or click "All" = show all files in both directories. Or click "Eq" = show file only the files that are the same. Note the program cheqs FileName, FileSize, FileDate and (sub)directory. It does not compute md5 sums because that would make it extremely slow. Mind you i use this regular for directories with 2000 photos. Based on Python, pygobject and gtk3. + Python-pillow if you want to compare 2 images. No installation: untar -xvzf CompareDir.tgz where you want and run.

ConfigPatch is a "meta-config" utility. It reads configuration files in several formats, applies patches using application-independent commands, then writes the changed files. Use ConfigPatch to re-apply your config changes after reinstalling/upgrading

Configurize is a configuration management application for Linux-based systems.

CoyoteMonitoring is a Zope-based web interface for managing NetFlow Collectors, data, and graphs. Inspired by Cacti's capabilities with SNMP, CoyoteMonitoring aims to provide rich and useful features for organizations requiring NetFlow management.

Cyclone is java-based rich GUI web tool for automating tasks with ease. Cyclone is a project that was borne out of necessity. Agreed, there are many native tools that allow task to be scheduled or automated on most operating systems, however, Cyclone is more than just an automation tool. In many programming languages, there are batch module/libraries available to schedule jobs, but need quite a bit of enhancements to provide similar feature set as Cyclone. Cyclone comes with a number of fascinating features Real-time progress and status montoring for jobs Pause, resume and stop an executing job Multi-user environment with in-built authentication and authorization modules Polygot - jobs can be implemented in java, groovy, ruby, javascript and python Easy administration and configuration - user management etc. Extensible security module

DAXFi is a Python package that helps configure several different kinds of firewalls in a consistent way. The rules are described in XML. It comes with a Python package, useful to build other applications and includes some useful example programs.

DDnsEditor will be a GUI dynamic DNS (rfc2136) zone editor, similar in functionality to nsupdate. DDnsEditor uses TSIG authentication for all communication with the DNS server. It does not edit on-disk zone files.

The DDoS Attack Defender Tool is a simple, yet effective python script that defends your linux system against a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack by limiting the number of connections per IP Address.

DHCPDman is a python/pygtk project aimed at providing a single interface for managing a single DHCP server.

A Python script that parses and mails ipchains, iptables and snort logfiles into the DSHIELD format for submission to DShield.org

DataSiphon is a data manipulation and transformation utility written in Python. It provides both command-line and graphical interfaces and allows users to easily move data between databases or files, performing on-the-fly Python-scripted transformations.

DataSync Suite is an open source platform for integrating tools like Zimbra, SugarCRM, and Drupal. The tool is focused on a single sign-on, application data integration, and fast, flexible deployment.

Lists or removes old duplicate versions of packages installed by apt-get. With this tool it's easy to keep only the newest version of each package in APT cache.

Debian Distribution Mirror is Python mirror software for Debian GNU/Linux distribution packages using wget

DeborphanGUI provides GUI to debian console tool deborphan. It display information about every listed package. I'ts written in Python & wxWidgets.