Contents

• #How_to_add_links_here

• #Lists_of_Open_Source_Software

• #Categories

• http://openmanagement.org/#Antivirus_/_Antispam

• #Application_Provisioning

• http://openmanagement.org/#Backups_/_Imaging

• http://openmanagement.org/#Certification_/_Education

• http://openmanagement.org/#Configuration_/_Resource_Management

• #Crypto

• #Data_stores

• http://openmanagement.org/#Design_/_Planning

• #Firewalls

• #Hardening

• #High_Availability

• http://openmanagement.org/#Instant_Messaging_/_Communication

• #Knowledge_Management

• http://openmanagement.org/#(Network_based)_Intrusion_Detection_Systems_/_Honeypo ts

• #Operating_Systems

• #Project_Management

• http://openmanagement.org/#Proxies_/_Web_Caches

How to add links here

For the time being (or until the OMC Benevolent Dictators decide otherwise), just add links in the categories below or create a new section if you feel that it is necessary. Try to alphabetize the links and provide a short description about the project (just copy/paste off the project's website). Try to keep it under 1 line of text.

Lists of Open Source Software

• DAG - RPM packages for Red Hat, RHEL, CentOS and Fedora

• FreshPorts - Lists the changes made to the FreeBSD ports tree, eg newly ported software

• Linux App Finder - Catalog of GNU/Linux programs and a resource to discover new apps

• Open Source Alternatives - High quality Open Source alternatives to well-known commercial products

• packages.debian.org - Search for Debian packages

• ports.OpenBSD.nu - OpenBSD package collection

• RPMforge - Independent community-driven project to provide and improve RPM packages.

• RPM Search - Tool for users of Linux RPM based distributions

• SourceForge - World's largest Open Source software development web site

• Uitwisselplatform - Open Source software development platform for the Dutch Open Source software community

Categories

The sections below divide projects which are either; industry standards, should be industry standards or look very promising.

Antivirus / Antispam

• AMaViS - A Mail Virus Scanner for Linux and other UN*X based platforms

• Clam AntiVirus - Open Source anti-virus toolkit for UNIX, designed especially for e-mail scanning on mail gateways

• DSPAM - Open-source content-based spam filter designed for multi-user enterprise systems

• SpamAssassin - The Powerful #1 Open-Source Spam Filter

• spamd - Spam deferral daemon which rejects false mail in a very efficient way

Application Provisioning

• ControlTier - Coordinates installation, configuration, and startup of application stacks into multiple environments

Backups / Imaging

• AMANDA - Back up multiple hosts over network to tape drives/changers, disks or optical media

• Bacula - Manage backup, recovery, and verification of computer data across a network of computers of different kinds

• Ghost for Linux - Hard disk and partition imaging and cloning tool similar to Norton Ghost®

• FOG - Basic computer imaging solution for Windows that ties together open-source tools with a PHP web interface

• SystemImager - Automates Linux installs, software distribution, and production deployment

Certification / Education

• BSD Certification - Committed to creating and maintaining a global certification standard for administration on BSD based OSes

• LPI - Promote and certify essential skills on Linux and Open Source through comprehensive, top quality, vendor-independent exams

Configuration / Resource Management

• Cfengine - Automated tool for configuring and maintaining Unix-like computers

• Escape-K - Open Source IT management platform

• GLPI - Database for an inventory of computers, software, printers, etc

• NeDi - Scripts to retrieve MAC address tables of switches, display where nodes are connected to the network and a lot more

• NetDirector - Web-based GUI and manual many-as-one service-level configuration management for Linux and Solaris

• OCS Inventory NG - Open Source automated inventory and deployement system

• OneCMDB - Open Source Configuration Management Database

• OpenNetAdmin - Provides a database managed inventory of your IP network in an AJAX webapp

• Puppet - System for automating system administration tasks

• RANCID - Monitors a device's configuration, including software and hardware

• xCat - Scalable distributed computing management/provisioning tool, provides a unified interface for control, discovery, and deployment

• ZipTie - Framework for Network Inventory Management, free to download, use, and distribute

Crypto

• A-Select - Open Source innovative system for authentication of users in a Web environment

• CAcert - Community driven, Certificate Authority that issues certificates to the public at large for free

• CrypTool - Freeware program which enables you to apply and analyze cryptographic mechanisms

• dm-crypt - Infrastructure in the kernel that provides a generic way to create virtual layers of block devices

• GnuPG - Complete and free implementation of the OpenPGP standard as defined by RFC2440

• OpenCA - Collaborative effort to develop a robust, full-featured and Open Source out-of-the-box Certification Authority

• OpenPGP - The most widely used email encryption standard in the world

• OpenSSL - Open Source toolkit implementing the SSL v2/v3 and TLS v1 protocols

• Password Gorilla - Stores all your user names and passwords, along with login information and other notes, in a securely encrypted file

• pwsafe - Unix commandline program that manages encrypted password databases

• TrueCrypt - Software for establishing and maintaining an on-the-fly-encrypted volume (data storage device)

Data stores

• Fedora Directory Server - Enterprise-class Open Source LDAP server for Linux

• Git - Version control system designed to handle very large projects with speed and efficiency

• MySQL - The world's most popular Open Source database

• OpenCVS - Free implementation of the Concurrent Versions System

• OpenLDAP - Open Source implementation of the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol

• PostgreSQL - Powerful, Open Source relational database system

• Subversion - Version control system that is a compelling replacement for CVS in the Open Source community

Design / Planning

• DBDesigner 4 - Visual database design system that integrates design, modeling, creation and maintenance into a single environment

• Dia - GTK+ based diagram creation program for Linux, Unix and Windows released under the GPL

Firewalls

• APF - Iptables(netfilter) based firewall system

• iptables - Packet filtering framework inside the Linux 2.4.x and 2.6.x kernel series

• pf - OpenBSD's system for filtering TCP/IP traffic and doing Network Address Translation

Hardening

• AppArmor - Proactively protects the OS and applications from external or internal threats

• Linux - Locks down an OS, proactively configuring it for increased security and decreasing its susceptibility to compromise

• grsecurity - Innovative approach to security utilizing a multi-layered detection, prevention, and containment model

• LES - Facility to quickly & easily secure RedHat/RPM based environments

• ModSecurity - Open Source web application firewall for Apache

• SELinux - Implementation of MAC using Linux Security Modules in the kernel, based on the principle of least privilege

• Suhosin - Advanced protection system for PHP installations

• WASC - To develop, adopt, and advocate standards for web application security

High Availability

• CARP - Allows multiple hosts on the same local network to share a set of IP addresses

• HAProxy - Free, fast and reliable solution offering high availability, load balancing, and proxying for TCP and HTTP-based applications

• Keepalived - Strong and robust keepalive facility to the Linux Virtual Server project

• Linux-HA - High availability (clustering) solution for Linux which promotes reliability, availability, and serviceability

• Linux Virtual Server - Highly scalable and highly available server built on a cluster of real servers

• pfsync - Pseudo-device which exposes certain changes to the state table used by pf

• PGCluster - Synchronous replication system of the multi-master composition for PostgreSQL

• Slony-I - Master to multiple slaves replication system for PostgreSQL supporting cascading and failover

• Uptimed - Daemon which logs your best uptimes

Instant Messaging / Communication

• Asterisk - Popular and extensible Open Source telephone system

• CallWeaver - Community-driven, vendor-independent, cross-platform, open source, PBX software project (formerly OpenPBX.org)

• DimDim - Conferencing that allows anybody to share their desktop, slides, talk, listen, chat, and broadcast via webcam

• Esper - Event Stream Processing (ESP) and Complex Event Processing (CEP)

• Jabber - Open, secure, ad-free alternative to consumer IM services like AIM, ICQ, MSN, and Yahoo

• Mule - Messaging platform based on ideas from Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) architectures

• RabbitMQ - Implementation of AMQP, the emerging standard for high performance enterprise messaging

• YATE - Flexible open source telephony engine

Knowledge Management

• Alfresco - Enterprise Content Management providing collaboration, document/records/web content and knowledge management

• KnowledgeTree - Open source electronic document management software designed for teams and small to medium-sized organizations.

• MediaWiki - Allows users to easily create, edit and link web pages to provide affordable and effective Intranets

(Network based) Intrusion Detection Systems / Honeypots

• BASE - Web frontend to query and analyze the alerts coming from a SNORT IDS system.

• BFD - Modular shell script for parsing logs and checking for authentication failures

• IDSwakeup - Collection of tools that allows to test network intrusion detection systems

• Nepenthes - Versatile tool to collect malware

• Nessus - Free, powerful, up-to-date and easy to use remote security scanner

• Nikto - Open Source web server scanner which performs comprehensive tests against web servers for multiple items

• Nmap - Free and open source utility for network exploration or security auditing

• OSSEC - Performs log analysis, integrity checks, Windows registry monitoring, rootkit detection, real-time alerting and response

• Rootkit Hunter - Scanning tool to ensure you for about 99.9% you're clean of nasty tools

• Snort - Open Source network intrusion prevention and detection system utilizing a rule-driven language

• sshguard - Detects SSH attacks via log monitoring and blocks the originating address with a firewall rule

• Sussen - Checks for vulnerabilities and configuration issues on computer systems

• tcpdump - Prints out the headers of packets on a network interface that match an expression

• Wireshark - A network protocol analyzer

• Yersinia - Network tool designed to take advantage of some weakeness in different network protocols

Operating Systems

• DistroWatch - Huge source of information on major Linux/Unix distro's

• CentOS - Enterprise-class Linux Distribution derived from sources freely provided to the public by a prominent Linux vendor

• Debian - Free operating system for your computer

• DragonFlyBSD - Based on FreeBSD. with a radically different approach to concurrency, SMP, and most other kernel subsystems

• Fedora - A Linux-based operating system that showcases the latest in free and open source software

• FreeBSD - Advanced operating system for x86 compatible, amd64 compatible, UltraSPARC®, IA-64, PC-98 and ARM architectures

• FreeNAS - CIFS, FTP, NFS, AFP, RSYNC, iSCSI, S.M.A.R.T., Software RAID (0,1,5) with a Full WEB configuration interface

• Gentoo Linux - A special flavor of Linux that can be automatically optimized and customized for just about any application or need

• HP Tru64 UNIX - HP Tru64™ UNIX operating system

• HP-UX Computing environment that has reliability, availability, security and manageability

• m0n0wall - Complete, embedded firewall software package based on FreeBSD, along with a web server, PHP and a few other utilities

• NetBSD - Free, secure, and highly portable Unix-like Open Source operating system available for many platforms

• OpenBSD - Free, multi-platform 4.4BSD-based UNIX-like operating system

• OpenSolaris - Open Source community and a place for collaboration and conversation around OpenSolaris technology

• openSUSE - Worldwide community program sponsored by Novell that promotes the use of Linux everywhere

• OpenVMS - Cluster OS, featuring high availability, performance, security, application integration, and system management

• OpenWrt - Linux distribution for embedded devices

• Red Hat - Enterprise Class Linux Distribution

• Slackware Linux - The Slackware Linux Project has aimed at producing the most "UNIX-like" Linux distribution out there

• Solaris - Open source UNIX OS, available as a free download for both x86/x64 and SPARC systems

• Ubuntu - Community developed, linux-based operating system, perfect for laptops, desktops and servers

• White Box Enterprise Linux - Derived from the Free/Open Source Software made available by Red Hat

Project Management

• dotProject - Open Source online project management tool

• OpenProj - OpenProj is a free, open source desktop alternative to Microsoft Project.

• TaskDriver - Open Source project management and task tracking application.

Proxies / Web Caches

• Squid - Caching proxy for the Web supporting HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and more

• SquidGuard - URL redirector used to use blacklists with the proxysoftware Squid

Remote Control

• Fruity - PHP based web-frontend to your Nagios configuration

• OpenSSH - Free version of the SSH connectivity tools that technical users of the Internet rely on

• pgAdmin - Popular and feature rich Open Source administration and development platform for PostgreSQL

• phpLDAPadmin - Web-based LDAP browser to manage your LDAP server

• phpMyAdmin - Tool written in PHP intended to handle the administration of MySQL over the Web

• phpPgAdmin - Web-based administration tool for PostgreSQL

• NetDirector - Web-based GUI and manual many-as-one service-level configuration management for Linux and Solaris

• sdtcon - Free Java SSH client tool for secure remote and out of band access

• TightVNC - Free remote control software package derived from the popular VNC software

• Webmin - Web-based interface for system administration for Unix

Systems Health Monitoring / Logging

• Cacti - A complete network graphing solution designed to harness the power of RRDTool's data storage and graphing functionality.

• Centreon - Network, system, applicative supervision and monitoring tool, based on Nagios core

• Ganglia - A a scalable distributed monitoring system for high-performance computing systems such as clusters and Grids.

• Hyperic - Expands past classical monitoring activities to drive availability and improve the overall health of the IT infrastructure

• jManage - Provides a centralized console for managing application clusters and distributed-application environments

• Linux Explorer - Linux system information gathering tool (LINUXexplo), similar to the Solaris explorer (SUNWexplo)

• Monit - Utility for managing/monitoring, processes, files, directories and devices on a UNIX system

• Munin - Monitoring tool surveys all your computers and remembers what it saw

• mysqlreport - Makes a friendly report of important MySQL status values

• Nagios - Open Source host, service and network monitoring program

• OpenIPMI - Interface specification that defines a common, abstracted, message-based interface to platform monitoring and control

• OpenNMS - Enterprise grade network management platform

• rsyslog - Multi-threaded syslogd supporting MySQL, syslog/tcp, RFC 3195, ACL's, filtering and fine grain output format control

• SIM - System and services monitor for 'SysVinit' systems

• SmokePing - Can measure, store and display latency, latency distribution and packet loss

• Splunk - Search engine that lets you search, navigate, alert and report on IT data from any application, server or network device

• sysstat - Collection of performance monitoring tools for Linux

• Zabbix - Enterprise-class Open Source distributed monitoring solution

• Zenoss - Enterprise-grade Open Source monitoring solution

Ticketing / (Bug) Tracking

• Mantis - Free, popular web-based bugtracking system

• OTRS - An Open source Ticket Request System with various features to manage customer telephone calls and e-mails

• RT - Enables a group of people to intelligently and efficiently manage tasks, issues, and requests submitted by users

• Trac - Enhanced wiki and issue tracking system for software development projects

Tutorials / Howto's

• HowtoForge - Howtos about Linux and Open Source

• Kernel Panic - Dedicated to Open Source and sharing of information, experience and software projects of any kind

• nixCraft - Linux howto's, insights into Linux, FreeBSD, UNIX sysadmin work, tips, hacks and news

• workaround.org - Personal wiki of Christoph Haas, with lots of nice articles on systems administration

Virtualization

• Bochs - Portable Open Source IA-32 (x86) PC emulator written in C++, that runs on most popular platforms

• Hercules - Open Source software implementation of the mainframe System/370 and ESA/390 architectures

• IMUNES - Integrated Multiprotocol Network Emulator / Simulator

• KVM - A full virtualization solution for Linux on x86 hardware containing virtualization extensions

• open-vm-tools - The Open Virtual Machine Tools are the open source implementation of VMware Tools

• QEMU - Generic and open source machine emulator and virtualizer

• VirtualBox - innotek VirtualBox is a family of powerful x86 virtualization products for enterprise as well as home use.

• VMware Server - Free virtualization product for Windows and Linux servers with enterprise-class support and VirtualCenter management

• Xen - Virtual machine for x86, supports execution of multiple guest OSes with performance and resource isolation

• xVM - A unified tool for system administrators to manage both traditional and virutal assets