Open Source System Administration tool?

[Pastore]

Such as Hyena.

Looking for something to help monitor network PCs. System resources, storage space, scheduled tasks, etc. remotely.

Any ideas are appreciated.

 

[KB]

Is this for Open source systems like Linux or for Windows?? For windows most everyone uses the MMC snap-ins like Computer Management since they are free.

For linux http://www.webmin.com/ is pretty good.

 

[Pastore]

mmc will work, but it's kind of a pain. Any machine that has user passwords you must know. Also, if windows firewall is enabled it gives me hassles. Hyena goes through the firewalls and gives a nice list of all machines and options.

Also, I couldn't find a way to browse the remote PCs files like you can in Hyena.

Yes, for a Windows networked environment.

 

[Pastore]

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[nweaver]

Altiris
Centennial (decent, the SNMP stuff is cool but scary)
Landesk
Erecent (Very very spendy)


none of this is open source, however. Altiris does offer a free trial, as do many of the others. There are a few more, search for asset management.

 

[Pastore]

Unfortunately open source is my only option as I'm on a tighter than tight budget.

 

[Nothinman]

Zabbix will do monitoring and graphing of resources.

 

[nweaver]

then you will probably not find an all inclusive does what you need app. You will probably have to use 2-6 and merge them into a single interface/reporting tool.
MRTG will graph usage of many things, such as network activity, CPU/Memory usage, NTOP will monitor network stuff in realtime, Nagios is good for making sure servers are up and functioning correctly (i.e. offering services they should). Can use WMI stuff to pull Windows workstations stuff, etc.

 

[DarkTXKnight]

Am i missing something?? I thought the OP was looking for something to manage a windows network? most of these tools mentioned are indeed Open source, but they mostly seem to be Unix based software

 

[Pastore]

Correct, I'm looking for Windows based software for a Windows network. Sorry for any confusion I may have thrown in by saying open source. I've scoured source forge for 2 days now but to no avail.

 

[Pastore]

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[Pastore]

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