Open Source Solaris Systems Administration Software

TurboVNC is a high-performance, enterprise-quality version of VNC based on TightVNC, TigerVNC, and X.org. It contains a variant of Tight encoding that is tuned for maximum performance and compression with 3D applications (VirtualGL), video, and other image-intensive workloads. TurboVNC, in combination with VirtualGL, provides a complete solution for remotely displaying 3D applications with interactive performance. TurboVNC's high-speed encoding methods have been adopted by TigerVNC and libvncserver, and TurboVNC is also compatible with any other TightVNC derivative. TurboVNC forked from TightVNC in 2004 and still covers all of the TightVNC 1.3.x features, but TurboVNC contains numerous feature enhancements and bug fixes relative to TightVNC, and it compresses 3D and video workloads much better than TightVNC while using generally only 5-20% of the CPU time of the latter. Using non-default settings, TurboVNC can also be made to compress 2D workloads as "tightly" as TightVNC.

smartmontools contains utility programs (smartctl, smartd) to control/monitor storage systems using the Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology System (S.M.A.R.T.) built into most modern ATA and SCSI disks. It is derived from smartsuite.

Pandora OPEN is a high-performance, 100% open-source monitoring ecosystem, born as the independent evolution of the Pandora FMS community branch after version 777. Licensed under GPLv2, it provides a modular and sovereign platform for supervising networks, servers, and applications without commercial dependencies. It features multi-platform agents, remote monitoring (SNMP, WMI, HTTP), GIS maps, and advanced visual dashboards. Entirely maintained by the community on GitHub, it ensures total transparency, technical flexibility, and absolute freedom for system administrators.

Apcupsd is a program for monitoring UPSes and performing a graceful computer shutdown in the event of a power failure. It runs on Linux, Mac OS/X, Win32, BSD, Solaris, and other OSes.

ipmiutil is an easy to use set of IPMI server management utilities. It can get/set sensor readings & thresholds, automate SEL management, do SOL console, etc. Supports Linux, Windows, BSD, Solaris, MacOSX. The only IPMI project tool that runs natively on Windows. See ipmiutil.sf.net for rpms, etc. (formerly called panicsel). It can run driverless in Linux for use on boot media or embedded environments.

EJBCA is an enterprise class PKI Certificate Authority built on JEE technology. It is a robust, high performance, platform independent, flexible, and component based CA to be used standalone or integrated in other JEE applications.

DAR is a command-line backup and archiving tool that uses selective compression (not compressing already compressed files), strong encryption, may split an archive in different files of given size and provides on-fly hashing, supports differential backup with or without binary delta, ftp and sftp protocols to remote cloud storage Archive internal's catalog, allows very quick restoration even a single file from a huge, eventually sliced, compressed, encrypted archive eventually located on a remote cloud storage, by only reading/fetching the necessary data to perform the operation. Dar saves *all* UNIX inode types, takes care of hard links, sparse files as well as Extended Attributes (MacOS X file forks, Linux ACL, SELinux tags, user attributes) and some Filesystem Specific Attributes (Linux ext2/3/4, Mac OS X HFS+) more details at: http://dar.linux.free.fr/doc/Features.html

BackupPC is a high-performance, enterprise-grade backup system for backing up Linux, WinXX PCs, Macs and laptops to a server's disk. Features include clever pooling of identical files, no client-side software, and a powerful Apache/CGI user interface.

Ganglia is a scalable distributed monitoring system for high-performance computing systems such as clusters and Grids. It is based on a hierarchical design targeted at federations of clusters. Supports clusters up to 2000 nodes in size.

Logsurfer is a program for monitoring system logs in real-time, and reporting on the occurrence of events. It is capable of grouping information together to enhance loganalysis and create automatic reports.

LCDproc controls various LCD and VFD devices in a standardized way, and ships with a client to display various system statistics. Supports multiple platforms (Linux, *BSD, Solaris). Client/server model allows multiple clients to use one display.

This project is used to provide a free java based open source Apache Http Server GUI. The solution is deployed as a web application that is accessible through a web browser. The solution is designed to be compatible with modern Windows and IX operating systems. Source code for this project is hosted on github https://github.com/jrossi227/ApacheGUI

Identify sizes of memory modules installed on a Solaris, Linux, FreeBSD or HP-UX workstation or server. memconf reports the size of each SIMM/DIMM memory module installed in a system. It also reports the system type and any empty memory sockets. In verbose mode, it also reports the following information if available: - banner name, model and CPU/system frequencies - address range and bank numbers for each module

The OVAL Interpreter is a freely available reference implementation that demonstrates the evaluation of OVAL Definitions. Based on a set of OVAL Definitions the interpreter collects system information, evaluates it, and generates a detailed OVAL Results file. Developed to demonstrate the usability of OVAL Definitions and to ensure correct syntax and adherence to the OVAL Schemas by definition writers, it is not a fully functional scanning tool nor an enterprise scanning tool. It is a simplistic, command-line application that has the ability to execute OVAL Content on an end system. To learn more about organizations that provide OVAL content and tools or otherwise support the OVAL Language, please see the OVAL Adoption Program (http://oval.mitre.org/adoption/).

PAM module which permits authentication for arbitrary services via ssh-agent. Written with sudo in mind, but like any auth PAM module, can be used for for many purposes.

ClusterSSH controls a number of xterm windows via a single graphical console window to allow commands to be interactively run on multiple servers over an ssh connection.

noexec - package for preventing process(es) from executing system call execve

Master/node to gather and graph "everything" on your systems using Tobi Oetiker's rrdtool. It can optionally warn your surveillance software. This software package was originally called LRRD. The project. Please see http://munin-monitoring.org/

SMF service wrapper for Sun/Oracle VirtualBox under Sun/Oracle Solaris 10+ and OpenSolaris builds (including OpenIndiana and illumos). Detailed project description is available in the README file: http://vboxsvc.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/vboxsvc/usr/share/doc/vboxsvc/README-vboxsvc.txt Discuss and get help in VirtualBox Forum thread "[Free as in beer] SMF service for VirtualBox VM's": https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=33249 A replica is hosted (and would likely be the HEAD of development soon) at https://github.com/jimklimov/vboxsvc See also https://github.com/jimklimov/vboxconfig_sh.git for tweaks needed to set up Oracle VirtualBox for Solaris packages (4.x, 5.0.x) on illumos hosts. For recent OpenIndiana and OmniOS (since 2019) there are packages provided by distributions, and these tweaks are not required then.

This Solaris system monitoring tool allows to perform standard SAR activity reporting and NMON activity reporting. The NMON output can be imported with Excel or RRD to output simple and efficient graphs.

pork, oidentd, iplog and ocd

A full-featured, GTK-based control panel for IceWM, featuring an IceWM theme designer, IceSoundManager (sound events), IcePref2, & tools to manage wallpaper, cursors, keys, window options, & more. IceWMCP has a familiar, Control Panel-like interface.

JPAM is a Java PAM bridge. PAM, or Pluggable Authentication Modules, is a standard security architecture used Unix, Linux and Mac OS X systems. JPAM permists the use of PAM authentication services to Java applications running on those platforms.

Oracle Dump Tools

Implementation of checkpassword-compatible PAM authentication program. Details on "checkpassword" interface are available at http://cr.yp.to/checkpwd.html