Open Source Python Systems Administration Software for Linux

Network Security Toolkit (NST) is a bootable ISO image (Live USB Flash Drive) based on Fedora 44 providing easy access to best-of-breed Open Source Network Security Applications and should run on most x86_64 systems. The main intent of developing this toolkit was to provide the security professional and network administrator with a comprehensive set of Open Source Network Security Tools. The majority of tools published in the article: Top 125 Security Tools by INSECURE.ORG are available in the toolkit. An advanced Web User Interface (WUI) is provided for system/network administration, navigation, automation, network monitoring, host geolocation, network analysis and configuration of many network and security applications found within the NST distribution. In the virtual world, NST can be used as a network security analysis, validation and monitoring tool on enterprise virtual servers hosting virtual machines.

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.

DenyHosts is a python program that automatically blocks ssh attacks by adding entries to /etc/hosts.deny. DenyHosts will also inform Linux administrators about offending hosts, attacked users and suspicious logins. This project is being actively developed on GitHub (https://github.com/denyhosts)

Opens up IIS Proxy Servers using NTLM to non-Microsoft browsers, etc

Project to manage xenserver/xcp (xen cloud platform) virtual machines with web (similar to xencenter) Sorry guys, but this project is dead. You are free to clone and use the same name. Contact to me if you want in alberto at pesadilla dot org

Scripts and tools to manage your Server.

Python SNMP Manager and Agent Protocols and APIs for use with the Twisted Matrix networking platform.

PySSH is a Python module for programmatically controlling ssh and scp. NOTE: This project is no longer maintained. Please consider using Paramiko (https://github.com/paramiko/paramiko) instead.

This has a Python ICAP (Internet Content Adaptation Protocol) server and IRML parser. Using this, a web proxy can do rule-based adaptation of content before delivery to clients. Has a Python proxylet API and squid-icap-client code too.

Linux/Windows Admin with interactive features to control Resources on a remote PC

Using this plugin-based framework, you can instantly start working on the *brain* of your bot (irc bot, chatterbot, robot, ...). With support for db, irc, logging and programming-language independent plugins, users can easily enhance the functionality.

ApacheConsole is a Python application that aims at providing a GUI ŕ la MMC for IIS to manage the Apache web server on both Linux/Unix and Windows platforms. Additional features include configuration of remote hosts via specific agents.

This is a apache v2.0 authentication module. Based on html form authentication and cookie authentication session. Cookie session are stored in memcache deamon. Can be used has an simple "Single Signe-On" (SSO). All the code source and the bug tracking has migrated to github: https://github.com/ZenProjects/Apache-Authmemcookie-Module All the documentation are here: https://zenprojects.github.io/Apache-Authmemcookie-Module/

CGIgen is a collection of classes that are useful in data-encapsulation esp. for CGI-scripts. It also includes other classes that may be helpful in writing CGI-scripts.

Manage node sets, node groups and execute commands on cluster nodes in parallel. Provides an event-based Python library to improve administration of large compute clusters or server farms. Command line tools: clush and nodeset included.

CoyoteMonitoring is a Zope-based web interface for managing NetFlow Collectors, data, and graphs. Inspired by Cacti's capabilities with SNMP, CoyoteMonitoring aims to provide rich and useful features for organizations requiring NetFlow management.

DDnsEditor will be a GUI dynamic DNS (rfc2136) zone editor, similar in functionality to nsupdate. DDnsEditor uses TSIG authentication for all communication with the DNS server. It does not edit on-disk zone files.

A Python script that parses and mails ipchains, iptables and snort logfiles into the DSHIELD format for submission to DShield.org

Emon is another remote server monitoring application, but this time you are able to start your monitoring in the terminal easily. You do not need to install any applications on the monitoring servers, because Emon uses SSH and /proc directory to get the monitoring data. All you need to do is just configure Emon in XML and create an SSH user. After configuration, you are ready to monitor ping, dns, ports, url, CPU, RAM, SWAP, disk, traffic and log files of multiple servers in the terminal. If something goes wrong, Emon will send email to the admin. Emon is able to send the statistics (dropouts and graphs) to the admin.

py_xdb_auth is a small but robust jabber-component based on twisted to authenticate jabber users against ldap. It is written for jabberd 1.4 and based on twisted and python-ldap.

Naraio is LAMP like software. It contains Apache, MySQL, PHP, Perl, Openssl, Phpmyadmin, OpenLDAP, Subversion, Ruby, Python, Phpldapadmin, and Trac. Trac and Subversion are authenticates user with integrated ldap. Naraio is easy, secure and flexible.

Nuhe is a log monitoring system, which is capable of alarm generation and action when rules are matched against log(s) activity.

Nuhe Client is a project related to the Nuhe Action Capable Log Monitor. This GUI client simplifies the administration of sensors and node managers, making it easier to control and monitor the network. Comes with a rule editor as well as a log monitor.

OS Farm is a service for generating and storing Xen VM images and Virtual Appliances. A live demo can be found at http://cern.ch/osfarm

OpenPortalGuard is a flexible, extensible, and massively scalable access control system for portals. It provides single-sign-on features for username/pw and smartcards as well as declarative access control.