OpensourceManagementTools
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Launchpad Entry: https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/opensource-mgt-tools
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Summary
Explore the tools that exists in the opensource world for managing servers
Seems to have a lack of open standards support in the open source tools at this point
http://www.openmanagement.org/members/
Categories
Monitoring
wikipdia list of system management tools http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_systems_management_systems
- nagios
- zenoss - based on Zope
- Provides inventory of systems
- needs *a lot* of packaging work (it adds 'NOPASSWD' to sudoers)
- there is an attempt on Debian side to package it
- licensing issues (lots of files without license)
- history graphing
- cricket
- zabbix
- OpenNMS
Patching & package management
Not yet comprehensive in the foss area
- RHN (not foss) is quite good
- Landscape (idem)
Management
Service level configuration. Usually done through scripting but lacks auditing, undoing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_open_source_configuration_management_software
- cfengine2 (in universe)
- very powerfull
- revision control
- puppet (in universe)
- lacks documentation/examples
- complex to use
- netdirector
- more work on the useability
- bad licence, changing to GPL soon
- plugin based
- edition of config files
- time based modifications (incl reporting)
- RBAC by plugin within the tool
Inventory
- Red Carpet
- Landscape
- OCS Inventory