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• Launchpad Entry: https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/opensource-mgt-tools

• Packages affected:

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)

  • http://www.netdirector.org/

  • RBAC by plugin within the tool

Inventory

• Red Carpet
• Landscape
• OCS Inventory

• glpi: http://www.glpi-project.org/?lang=en

  http://www.openmanagement.org/members/

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