Open Source Python Systems Administration Software

Network Security Toolkit (NST) is a bootable ISO image (Live USB Flash Drive) based on Fedora 42 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.

Sentry is a cross-platform, self-hosted error monitoring solution that helps software teams discover, monitor and fix errors in real-time. The most users and logs will have to provide are the clues, and Sentry provides the answers. Sentry offers enhanced application performance monitoring through information-laden stack traces. It lets you build better software faster and more efficiently by showing you all issues in one place and providing the trail of events that lead to errors. It also provides real-time monitoring and data visualization through dashboards. Sentry’s server is in Python, but its API enables for sending events from any language, in any application. More than fifty-thousand companies already ship better software faster thanks to Sentry; let yours be one of them!

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)

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/

BlueGate HotSpot Lite 2.0 New Features in 2.0: +Support windows 7/8/8.1 and 10 !!! +ICS Sharing Bug Fixed +Network Statistics +Improved UI +Detect New Devices Automatically +New Settings Available With BlueGate HotSpot, you can transform your PC into a real WiFi hotspot, and share your computer’s Internet connection as Wi-Fi with any other PC or mobile device. BlueGate is a very simple and user friendly software that turns your Windows 7/8/8.1 PC into a Wi-Fi Hotspot easily and quickly. Main Features: +Share any type of Internet Connection (LAN,Ethernet,3G/4G,Wifi,etc) +WPA2 AES Encryption +Extends your Router's range & Acts as a repeater +View clients connected (Device name, Ip Address, Mac Address) +Avoid Overcharges for Costly Connections +Support Windows 7/8/8.1 (Support for Windows 10 soon) +User Friendly & Light Weight +Leaves nothing behind (Virtual adapter is cleared when hotspot is stopped) +Written in Python :))

VNCed allows admins and teachers to monitor multiple workstations at the same time using VNC. There are a number of other VNC releated downloads available including MSI Creators/Installers for UltraVNC, Win32 version of RFBProxy and pyvnc2swf-py2exe

A pure-Python library for performing client operations using the WBEM CIM-XML protocol. Attention: This project has been moved to http://pywbem.github.io

A console cross-platform tool for locating all available DHCP servers.

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

Linux Mobile System is a full Linux system within a USB Flash Memory Drive. This system will be able to boot from any i386 based PC, so we can to run a lot of utilities: network diagnostic, disk diagnostic, administration terminal, etcetera.

DAXFi is a Python package that helps configure several different kinds of firewalls in a consistent way. The rules are described in XML. It comes with a Python package, useful to build other applications and includes some useful example programs.

NetDirector is a Web-based Linux and Solaris management console providing secure, easy-to-use, one-to-many management of Open Source workgroup servers: HTTP, DNS, DHCP, LDAP, Kerberos, Samba, NFS, FTP, Email, Users and Groups.

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

DOGTOWN - Free Software & Tools for administrators ||| please read the Release Notes or docs @ http://dogtown.mare-system.de for a description of each package

Moodss is a modular monitoring application, composed of a GUI and a daemon, which supports any device or process for which a module can be developed. Complete dashboards with graphical viewers, thresholds, SQL database archiving, ... can be managed.

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

Anemasys is a network managemet system for small networks of Linux clients. It provides functions like state control and class based remote administration facilities. It consits of a collection of python scripts and an admin gui frontend.

The Basic Activity Tracker is a Python script that measures how much time your home users spend each day using computers around the house. Unlike other such utilities, The Bat works across multiple computers sharing a connection to SimpleDB on AWS.

The Cisco Objective Reality Interpreter (CORI) is a customizable Python-powered command line interpreter for automated administration of Cisco switches, routers, and firewalls.

This project allow to test network availability on multiple nodes. It is built as a plugin architecture in order to use it on multiples networks. Test is based on three steps : module status, local visibility of network, and interconnection between nodes

ConVirt is an intuitive, graphical management tool providing comprehensive life cycle management for Virtual Machines.

Configurize is a configuration management application for Linux-based systems.

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.