Open Source Tools in Data Centers

An anonymous reader writes "There is a nice presentation on the L.A.S. Linux site entitled "Managing Data Center Functions with Open Source Tools" which was presented at Comdex 2003. It covers everything from IPtables to OpenNMS. As well as covering some less known but nice tools like NeDi, which lets you easily manage Cisco routers and swiches from a web browser."

Comments

My favorite use of OS

[afidel]

in the enterprise datacenter has to be Cisco Enterprise Printing System of CEPS for short. With CEPS Cisco has over 10K printers in thousands of sites around the world with only 2 print admin's!! CEPS is based around SAMBA and CUPS and allows windows, linux, and unix clients to print to printers in a way that is unmatched for redundancy in any other product commercial or otherwise. Remote print servers can take over controll of print queues quickly in the event of a print server failure and queues can be rerouted to a new print device should a physical printer fail all without client reconfiguration! Cisco was nice enough to give the system back to the world. They have a sourceforge project available for anyone interested.

Samba is King of the Free Software World

[the man with the pla]

Admit it. With the exception of Apache, Samba is the number one reason that Linux (and BSD, too!) has been able to invade the datacenters of companies the world over.

Without Samba, Linux et al would be in a much less pretty position.

Perhaps we should call it Samba/GNU/Linux? :)

Kudos to the Samba Team, Tridge, and all Samba developers/testers/users!

JFFNMS

[szysz]

Another tool to monitor a Cisco-based or other networks is JFFNMS

It can monitor TCP Ports, Network cards, CPU, Memory, Disks, all using standard SNMP, with no client side scripts.

You can integrate it with your OSS using various RPC methods, everything is stored in MySQL or PostgreSQL.

Its very extensible too...

Javier
It's my own project. :)