Administration program

An administration program is there to simplify, automate or simply enable the system administrator to administer the system .

Examples

Administration interfaces known in the open source segment

• YaST , the administration program of SUSE Linux , which is no longer subject to the proprietary YaST license, but to the GPL , which is why there is also an implementation for Debian at an early stage, and which SUSE Linux and derivatives derived from it as an essential administration tool enclosed.
• Anaconda, the administration program of Red Hat Linux as well as Linux distributions derived from it , which comes with them as an essential administration tool
• Webmin with various plugins and the well-known additional programs Usermin and Virtualmin for single computers and clusters with Linux , OpenBSD , NetBSD , FreeBSD , HP-UX , Solaris , AIX , Mac OS X and various other Unixoid operating systems
• various SNMP -based solutions, which mostly target specific areas such as B. Hardware and software inventory and monitoring, or network documentation (examples: Scotty, openNMS, procabs)
• CMDBs and IT documentation such as the web-based i-doit with interfaces to other open source IT service management tools such as Nagios or Request Tracker

Located in the closed source segment

• HP OpenView with subordinate software components for Unix systems, mainframes , Linux systems and Microsoft Windows
• IBM Tivoli with various specific software extensions for mainframes , AIX -based and other Unix systems and Microsoft Windows
• Microsoft Management Console plus additional plug-ins, which are called snap-ins here, especially common in combination with the Systems Management Server in Windows , since the MMC is already supplied with Windows 2000 and higher versions.
• Plesk , primarily in the area of ​​web server administration
• Confixx , also primarily used for web server administration