linux // networking managment

• 55 Open Source Replacements for Popular Networking Tools - Datamation.com - An annotated list of networking tools organized by subject category. This resource is handy for both enterprise and home system administrators to assist in managing their networks. (2010)
• Angel Network Monitor - A simple tool to monitor networks; latest version is 0.7.3, 2002
• Bandwidth Monitoring Tools For Linux -- Ubuntu Geek - A list of bandwidth monitoring applications for Linux. Each entry has a short annotation plus a link to the project homepage.
• Batch Login Project - A shell connection virtualization program; especially useful for executing scripts and commands across complex networks.
• Big Sister System and Network Monitor - Network and system monitor. Site also available in German.
• Cacti: The Complete RRDTool-based Graphing Solution - A cross-platform, network management tool front-end to RRDTool (Round Robin Database), which is a system to store and display time-series data such as network bandwidth, machine-room temperature, and server load average.
• Chef - Chef manages a large number of systems via a collection of "recipes" or code to define a configuration. It's basically a systems integration framework, built to bring the benefits of configuration management to your entire network
• ClusterIt - A collection of clustering tools to allow simple administration of groups of *NIX/BSD machines; also can be used to facilitate parallel shell scripting, and compiling.
• DNS, BIND Nameserver, DHCP, LDAP and Directory Services - A resource site for DNS, DHCP, and LDAP.
• Dante - A Free Socks Implementation - A circuit-level firewall/proxy for convenient and secure network connectivity to multiple hosts; also provides detailed access control and logging facilities to the server administrator.
• EtherApe, a graphical network monitor - A graphical network monitor modeled after etherman; features Ethernet, IP, TCP, FDDI and Token Ring modes; displays network activity graphically.
• Func: Fedora Unified Network Controller - A tool to help streamline system administration on multiple computer systems. It is also a framework for doing two-way secure communication, from the command line, scripts, or applications.
• GANYMEDE: GASH 2 - A portable and customizable network directory management system.
• Ganglia Monitoring System - A scalable distributed monitoring system for high-performance computing systems such as clusters and grids; supports clusters up to 2000 nodes. Latest stable release is 3.1.7, 2010-03-08.
• Homepage of Zabbix - Cross-platform software for application and network monitoring.
• IPAudit - IPAudit monitors network activity on a network by host, protocol and port. Latest stable release is 1.0, 2005-01-08.
• IPTraf - An IP Network Monitor - A console-based network statistics utility for Linux.
• Inlab - Balance - A command-line load balancer.
• Insecure.Org -- Nmap Security Scanner - Stealth port scanner for network security auditing, general internet exploration & hacking. Designed to rapidly scan large networks, although it works fine against single hosts. Latest stable release is 5.0, 2009-07-05.
• Internet Software Consortium - DHCP - The latest version of DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) is available here. DHCP is an Internet protocol for automating the configuration of computers that use TCP/IP.
• Keepalived for Linux - Linux High Availability - Health checking for LVS (Linux Virtual Server) and High-Availability.
• MRTG: The Multi Router Traffic Grapher - A cross-platform SNMP network device monitor (and a whole variety of other network devices) which can draw pretty pictures showing how much traffic has passed through each interface. Latest stable release is 2.16.3, 2008-05-16.
• MTR - MTR combines the functionality of the 'traceroute' and 'ping' programs in a single network diagnostic tool. Latest release is 0.80, 2010-07-12.
• Mon- Service Monitoring Daemon - A general purpose scheduler and alert management tool used for monitoring service availability and triggering alerts upon failure detection.
• Monit - A utility for managing and monitoring, processes, files, directories and devices on Linux and UNIX systems.
• NUT: Network UPS Tools - A cross-platform, open source UPS management project designed to monitor and shutdown multiple UPSes from different manufacturers with a small set of programs. The project monitors every kind of UPS, given sufficient interest. Last release is 2.2.2, 2008-05-07.
• Nagios - A host, service and network monitoring program. Continues NetSaint Network Monitor. Latest stable release is 3.0.1, 2008-04-01.
• Network Monitoring Tools - A list of network monitoring tools organized by broad subject area.
• OpenNMS - A network management tool that tracks machine uptime, outage and usage information.
• PIKT - A cross-categorical, multi-purpose software for monitoring and configuring computer systems, administering networks, and organizing system security. Latest release is 1.19.0, 2007-09-10.
• Portable SDK for UPnP Devices - A Portable Open Source UPnP Development Kit which provides developers with an API and open source code for building control points, devices, and bridges that are compliant with Version 1.0 of the Universal Plug and Play Device Architecture Specification. A fork of the Linux SDK for UPnP Devices (libupnp) project. Latest stable release is 1.6.6, 2008-04-26.
• Puppet - An automated configuration management system for system administration tasks. Latest stable release is 0.25.0, 2009-09-04.
• RRD TOOL - Round Robin Database Tool - A system to store and display time-series data (i.e. network bandwidth, machine-room temperature, server load average).
• The GNU Netcat -- Official Homepage - A cross-platform "Swiss Army Knife" network management tool with many features including a debugging tool, built-in port-scanning capabilities, and tunneling mode which allows special tunneling such as UDPto TCP.
• The Linux Virtual Server Project (LVS) - Linux Server Cluster - Linux server cluster for load balancing.
• The Mars Network Monitor - A simple, extensible, services-oriented network status monitor written in Java; it monitors a network by simulating client connections to Internet services.
• The NET-SNMP Project Home Page - Network management tools and libraries relating to the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP).
• The TCPDUMP Project - A tool for network monitoring, protocol debugging and data acquisition.
• The Xtraceroute Homepage. - A graphical version of the traceroute program; latest version is 0.9.1, 2003.
• Traffic Engineering Server Platform (TES) - A Linux distribution that provides basic tools to monitor and manage traffic passing between a Local Area Network (LAN) and Internet/WAN connection.
• VTun - Virtual Tunnels Over TCP/IP Networks - This software creates virtual tunnels over TCP/IP networks with traffic shaping, compression, and encryption. It supports IP, Ethernet, PPP and other tunnel types.
• Wireshark - A cross-platform network management tool for troubleshooting, analysis, software and protocol development, and education. Previously known as Ethereal. Latest stable release is 1.2.5, 2009-12-17.
• Xinetd - secure replacement of inetd - Latest release is 2.3.14, 2005.
• iTALC - Intelligent Teaching And Learning with Computers - A cross-platform education tool for teachers. It allows the user to monitor and control computers in labs, and interact with students using these computers. Also available in French, German, Italian, Norwegian, and Spanish.