Winters ISD
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These are projects that are being worked on or implemented at Winters ISD.
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[edit] Cloud
- Eucalyptus cloud
- Eucalyptus - Elastic Utility Computing Architecture for Linking Your Programs To Useful Systems - is an open-source software infrastructure for implementing "cloud computing" on clusters. The current interface to Eucalyptus is compatible with Amazon's EC2, S3, and EBS interfaces, but the infrastructure is designed to support multiple client-side interfaces. Eucalyptus is implemented using commonly available Linux tools and basic Web-service technologies making it easy to install and maintain.
- Winters ISD public cloud (currently off)
[edit] Network Management and Monitoring
[edit] Network Management
- IPPlan
- IPplan is a free (GPL), web based, multilingual, TCP IP address management software and tracking tool written in php 4, simplifying the administration of your IP address space. IPplan goes beyond TCPIP address management including DNS administration, configuration file management, circuit management (customizable via templates) and storing of hardware information (customizable via templates). IPplan can handle a single network or cater for multiple networks and customers with overlapping address space. Makes managing ip addresses and managing ip address space simple and easy!
- FOG server
- Fog is a Linux-based, free and open source computer imaging solution for Windows XP and Vista that ties together a few open-source tools with a php-based web interface. Fog doesn't use any boot disks, or CDs; everything is done via TFTP and PXE. Also with fog many drivers are built into the kernel, so you don't really need to worry about drivers (unless there isn't a linux kernel module for it). Fog also supports putting an image that came from a computer with a 80GB partition onto a machine with a 40GB hard drive as long as the data is less than 40GB.
[edit] Monitoring
- Munin
- Munin the monitoring tool surveys all your computers and remembers what it saw. It presents all the information in graphs through a web interface. Its emphasis is on plug and play capabilities. Using Munin you can easily monitor the performance of your computers, networks, SANs, applications, weather measurements and whatever comes to mind. It makes it easy to determine "what's different today" when a performance problem crops up. It makes it easy to see how you're doing capacity-wise on any resources.
- SmokePing
- SmokePing keeps track of your network latency
- nTop
- ntop is a network traffic probe that shows the network usage, similar to what the popular top Unix command does. ntop is based on libpcap and it has been written in a portable way in order to virtually run on every Unix platform and on Win32 as well. ntop users can use a a web browser (e.g. netscape) to navigate through ntop (that acts as a web server) traffic information and get a dump of the network status. In the latter case, ntop can be seen as a simple RMON-like agent with an embedded web interface.
- Nagios / Icinga
- Nagios
- Nagios is the industry standard in enterprise-class monitoring for good reason. It allows you to gain insight into your network and fix problems before customers know they even exist. It's stable, scalable, supported, and extensible.
- Icinga
- Icinga is a fork of Nagios and strives to be more responsive to user requests and faster in software development through the support of a broader developer community. Icinga takes all the great features of Nagios and combines it with the feature requests and patches of the user community. These modifications hail direct from the community and are supported by the concrete experiences of those involved in customer projects.
[edit] Other
- Amanda backup (wiki)
- Amanda is the world's most popular Open Source Backup and Archiving software. Amanda allows System Administrators to set up a single backup server to back up multiple hosts to a tape- or disk-based storage system. Amanda uses native archival tools and can back up a large number of workstations and servers running various versions of Linux, Unix or Microsoft Windows operating systems.
- hopefully can hack the 'backup to Amazon's S3' (s3device) feature to work with Eucalyptus
- OTRS (Open Ticket Request System)
- OTRS is an Open source Ticket Request System (also well known as trouble ticket system) with many features to manage customer telephone calls and e-mails. The system is built to allow your support, sales, pre-sales, billing, internal IT, helpdesk, etc. department to react quickly to inbound inquiries.
- Digital Signage
- VoIP
- Thin Clients / Virtual Desktops
- Ulteo OVD (Open Virtual Destkop)
- With Open Virtual Desktop (OVD) technology, corporations are able to install and setup an OVD Session Manager and one or several Application Server and then set up access for employees on the network. Employees will then be able to use the applications provided by Open Virtual Desktop within their browsers. Applications can be either Linux or Windows applications and are available seamlessly on user's desktops. Linux applications run on Ulteo Applications Servers while Windows applications run on Terminal Services on Windows servers.
- Ubuntu Classroom Server
- LTSP-based Ubuntu infrastructure
