Category/System-administration

AFD

Automatically distribute files

APing

advanced ping program written in python that can make four type of ICMP probes

Acct

GNU system accounting utilities

AcpiTool

A versatile command line ACPI client for Linux.

Adjtimex

Displays or sets the kernel time variable

Adtool

Utility for Active Directory administration

Afick

File integrity checker

Afick-Webmin

Facilitates afick remote administration

Airhook

a data delivery protocol, like TCP.

Alarm Pinger

Monitors IP devices by ICMP echo requests

Alexis FTP (aftp)

an FTP library and a background FTP tool.

Alien

Converts between different free software packaging formats

Alist

Collects and stores information about systems

Am-utils

Berkeley automounter suite of utilities

Amanda

Backs up multiple hosts to a single drive

Analog

Web logfile analysis program

Andatool

Displays the frequency of regex and logfile matches

AntiDialer

A Sify GUI Broadband Dialer for Unix.

Antidote

IEEE 11073-20601 stack

Apt-torrent

'apt' backend to fetch packages via the bittorrent protocol

Apvsys

System for managing different versions of various applications

Archive

Drag-and-drop multi-format archiver

Archmbox

Email archiver

Arpalert

Uses ARP address monitoring to help prevent unauthorized connections

Arping

ARP level ping utility

Ascpu

CPU load monitor

Asmem

Memory utilization monitor

Atchange

Automates file changes

Atkins

Examine variables, tables, and linked lists in the kernel

Atool

Script for managing file archives

Atop

System- and process-level monitor

Atsar

Detects performance bottlenecks

Audit

Check files in home directory for strange permission, ownership, etc.

Authfail

Tracks IP addresses that cause authentication failures

Auto nice daemon

Automatically renices jobs

Auto-autofs

Generates an automounter map

AutoCodeGenerator

Generates programs that maintain database records

AutoScan

Network management tool

AutoUpdate

Automatically downloads and upgrades RPMs from different FTP sites

Autodist

Distribution creation system

Autopoweroff

Shuts down a computer when certain conditions are met

Autossh

Monitors and automatically reestablishes SSH connections

Autothrottle

Adjusts CPU according to the system load

BBclone

PHP Web counter

Backroute

Router monitor

Backup Manager

A Program to automate system backups

Backup Shell

Shell for ssh

Backup2l

Manages backups

Backuper

Makes backups on CDs or DVDs

Backupninja

provides a centralized way to configure and schedule many different backup utilities.

Backuppc

Backs up files to a server

Bacula

Backup management programs

Bandwidthd

Tracks and graphically displays TCP/IP network usage

Bar

User backup utility

Barcat

Displays an ASCII progress bar

Bash

Shell of the GNU operating system

BatRen

An automatic file rename tool.

Batchput

Matches and transfers files from a local directory to an FTP server

Battstat

Applet that monitors the battery charge on a laptop

Bcfg2

Maintains and documents the configuration of GNU/Linux and Unix systems

Beep

Makes the console beep

Benchmark-Timer

Times and becnhmarks portions of code

Bfr

Pipe buffer

Binkd

FidoTech TCP/IP mailer

Bloat

Analyses and extracts an archive's filename

BlockIt

Monitors the Snort alert file

Boot-Up Manager

This application helps the user to handle init scripts. This means to start or stop them using a nice graphical interface.

Bootstrapper

Creates a customized bootstrapping script

Bras

Command execution tool

Bubblegum

Watches files for changes via stat()

Bubbling Load Monitor Applet

Graphic display of CPU and memory load

BulkWatch

Takes action when an IP has exceeded its maximum settings

Busynode

Host reservation system designed for clusters

Bwstats

bandwidth utilization diagram generator

ByteHoard

A file transfer, storage, and mangement system.

CI Joe

CI Joe is a fun Continuous Integration server.

CaSchd

a Ruby network manager.

CacheIt

PHP class to facilitate caching

Cacti

Frontend for RRDTool

Calamaris

Generates statistics from log files from proxy cache servers

Caspar

Makefile snippets for common tasks

Ccollect

An incremental full backup solution.

Cedar Backup

Backs up files on local and remote hosts to CD-R or CD-RW media

Cfengine

Maintains configuration of a heterogenous UNIX network

Change Suffix

Changes the suffix of file and/or directory names

Changedfiles

Framework for filesystem replication, security monitoring, and/or automatic file transformations

Changetrack

Monitors changes to system files

CheckInstall

Tracks installed files and creates distro-specific packages from them

CheckWebsite

Performance monitoring and uptime notification tool

Checksuite

Programs to help with daily sysadmin tasks

Chestnut FTP Search

application to search for files on FTP servers.

Chpox

Tool for transparent checkpointing and restarting of processes

Cleanlinks

Removes dangling symbolic links and empty directories

Clunix tools

GNU/Linux cluster management tools

ClusterIt

Software to facilitate cluster maintenance

ClusterSSH

Automatically sends text to multiple windows

Cmdftp

Command line FTP client which uses only passive mode

Coas

GNU/Linux administration system

Collectd

Collects system information and writes the results in an RRD-file

Comfigure

Wrapper to run configuration scripts

Command Line Progress Bar

Displays information about a data transfer stream

Conc

Serial console concentrator package

Config General

Accesses the parsed contents of config files from a hash structure

Confstore

Configuration backup utility

ConnMon

A connection and bandwidth monitoring program

Conserver

Provides remote access to serial port consoles

Convmv

Converts filenames, directories, and filesystems to a different encoding

Core-restart

Checkpointing and restarting system

CouchDB-FUSE

a Python FUSE module for CouchDB.

Cpio

Archiver that handles various types of cpio and tar archives

Cpuid

CPU identification utility

Createusers

Adds or removes users in bulk

Cricket

Monitors trends in time-series data

Cronolog

Web log rotation program

Current

Server implementation of RedHat's up2date tools

Cvsstat

Shows CVS activity

D

Alternative to 'ls' and its long format output

DACT

Compresses files dynamically

DIAP

Distributed Internet Archiving Protocol

DIBS

Backup system

DKopp

a program used to copy or back-up disk files to DVD.

DMD

Service manager that's a replacement for SysV-init

DULog

New log notifier and parser

Daemon

Turns other processes into daemons

Dar

Makes a backup of a directory tree and files

Darkstat

Network statistics gatherer

DataStatix

A free software to manage data and statistics with MySql

Dazuko

Lets 3rd-party applications execute file access control

Dbench

Filesystem benchmark

Dbtoy

A FUSE-based GNU/Linux filesystem for mapping a relational database with XML files.

Ddclient

Updates dynamic DNS entries

DebSync

Synchronizes the packages installed on Debian machines

Debfoster

Cleans up Debian packages

Depot

Software management tool

Detect

Hardware detection library

Detox

Clean up filenames, especially those from non-GNU/Linux OSes

Devfsd

Manages entries in the Device Filesystem

Devlabel

Creates symbolic links to disk or partition names

Di

Disk information utility

DirList

User directory system that runs as a CGI

DirSync

A directory synchronizer.

Diradm

Manages POSIX users and groups

Directory Administrator

Manages UNIX users and groups in an LDAP directory

Dish

Executes commands simultaneously on several hosts

Diskfree

Tracks and reports changes in file size

Disktype

Detects the content format of a disk or disk image

Displayusers

Generates user lists

Distribulator

Command execution and file transfer utility

Dkop 2

Copy (back-up) disk files to DVD. Full or incremental backup and media verification. Full or selective file restore. Gnome GUI interface.

Dnotify 2

Executes a command when the contents of a directory change

Dnsmasq

Small DNS forwarder

Dobackup.pl

Automates unattended incremental backups of multiple servers

Drraw

Interactive graph builder

Dtrx

Intelligently extract many archive types

Dump Restore

The 'dump' and 'restore' functions

DupeFinder

Finds, moves, renames, and deletes duplicate files

Duplicity

Incremental backup tool

Dupmerge

Reclaims disk space from redundant files

Dupseek

Finds and removes duplicate files

Dvdisaster

Helps recover unreadable sections on damaged disks

E

"is a command line utility that extracts lots of different archives.

E2fsprogs

ext2 filesystem utilities

ECNCheck

Tests for ECN support and RFC-violating refusal

EMirror

Ftp mirror script

EPM

Generates software and patch distributions

Easy Backup

is a simple backup application written in Python that can backup selected files and save them into tar files.

Ec

Graphical mail program for X

Echoping

Testing tool for TCP servers

Elf

ELF object file header analyzer

Empathy

a messaging program which supports text, voice, and video chat and file transfers over many different protocols.

Epkg

Package manager for the Encap package management system

Epylog

New log notifier and parser

Etherape

Network monitor

Etherboot

Makes boot ROMS

Ethtool

Ethernet diagnostic and tuning tool

Exim

Message transfer agent for Unix systems

Eximstate

Monitors Exim installations

Expect

Automates interactive applications

Ext2hide

A way to store files in the ext2 superblock free space.

Extended Operating System Loader

Graphical boot loader

FAI

an automated installation tool to install or deploy Debian GNU/Linux and other distributions on a bunch of different hosts or a cluster.

FAM

Notifies users when specific files or directories are changed

FAUS

Perl CGI script that user administer through a Web interface

Fail2Ban

Fail2Ban monitors log files like /var/log/pwdfail or /var/log/apache/error_log and bans failure-prone addresses. It updates firewall rules to reject the IP address or executes user defined commands.

Fallback-reboot

Tool for remotely rebooting a computer

Fcron

Schedules periodic commands

Fdutils

Utilities for managing a floppy driver

Feta

Frontend to 'dpkg'

Fget

Mirrors remote files via FTP

Ficc

Manages multiple Tripwire installations

File Service Protocol

UDP-based protocol for file transfers

FileRepair

Compares and modifies files across a network

Fileprune

Automates file deletion

Fileschanged

A command line utility for monitoring files for alterations.

Filewatcher

Maintains a local file archive repository

Fireparse

Reports on packets logged by a system's packet filtering subsystems

Firestr

Platform for distributed communication and computation

Flc

Shows the FILE_ID.DIZ and ID3 tag of every file

Flexbackup

Backup tool for both local and remote files

Flowd

Small, fast, secure NetFlow collector

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