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# Awesome Sysadmin

A curated list of amazingly awesome open source sysadmin resources.



## Contributing

Please read [CONTRIBUTING](./CONTRIBUTING.md) if you wish to add software.



## Table of Contents

* [Awesome Sysadmin](#awesome-sysadmin)

  * [Backups](#backups)

  * [Build Automation](#build-automation)

  * [ChatOps](#chatops)

  * [Cloning](#cloning)

  * [Cloud Computing](#cloud-computing)

  * [Cloud Storage](#cloud-storage)

  * [Code Review](#code-review)

  * [Collaborative Software](#collaborative-software)

  * [Configuration Management Database](#configuration-management-database)

  * [Configuration Management](#configuration-management)

  * [Continuous Integration & Continuous Deployment](#continuous-integration--continuous-deployment)

  * [Control Panels](#control-panels)

  * [Deployment Automation](#deployment-automation)

  * [Diagramming](#diagramming)

  * [Distributed Filesystems](#distributed-filesystems)

  * [DNS](#dns)

  * [Editors](#editors)

  * [IT Asset Management](#it-asset-management)

  * [LDAP](#ldap)

  * [Log Management](#log-management)

  * [Mail Servers](#mail-servers)

  * [Messaging](#messaging)

  * [Monitoring](#monitoring)

  * [Metric & Metric Collection](#metric--metric-collection)

  * [Network Configuration Management](#network-configuration-management)

  * [Newsletter](#newsletters)

  * [NoSQL](#nosql)

  * [Packaging](#packaging)

  * [Queuing](#queuing)

  * [RDBMS](#rdbms)

  * [Security](#security)

  * [Service Discovery](#service-discovery)

  * [Software Containers](#software-containers)

  * [SSH](#ssh)

  * [Statistics](#statistics)

  * [Status Pages](#status-pages)

  * [Ticketing systems](#ticketing-systems)

  * [Troubleshooting](#troubleshooting)

  * [Project Management](#project-management)

  * [Version control](#version-control)

  * [Virtualization](#virtualization)

  * [VPN](#vpn)

  * [Web](#web)

  * [Webmails](#webmails)

  * [Wikis](#wikis)

* [Resources](#resources)

  * [Blogs](#blogs)

  * [Books](#books)

  * [Newsletters](#newsletters)

  * [Repositories](#repositories)

  * [Websites](#websites)



## Backups



*Backup software.*



* [Amanda](http://www.amanda.org/) - Client-server model backup tool.

* [Attic](https://attic-backup.org) - A deduplicating backup program written in Python.

* [Bacula](http://www.bacula.org) - Another Client-server model backup tool.

* [Bareos](http://www.bareos.org) - A fork of Bacula backup tool.

* [Barman](http://www.pgbarman.org) - Backup and Recovery Manager for disaster recovery of PostgreSQL servers.

* [Backupninja](https://labs.riseup.net/code/projects/backupninja) - Lightweight, extensible meta-backup system.

* [Backuppc](http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/) - Client-server model backup tool with file pooling scheme.

* [Brebis](http://brebisproject.org) - A fully automated backup checker.

* [Bup](https://github.com/bup/bup) - Incremental backups with rolling checksums, git packfiles, de-duplication, and a FUSE filesystem.

* [Burp](http://burp.grke.org/) - Network backup and restore program.

* [Duplicati](http://www.duplicati.com) - Multiple backends, encryption, web-ui and multi-OS backup tool.

* [Duplicity](http://duplicity.nongnu.org/) - Encrypted bandwidth-efficient backup using the rsync algorithm.

* [FreeFileSync](http://www.freefilesync.org) - Folder comparison and synchronization tool.

* [Lsyncd](https://github.com/axkibe/lsyncd) - File Monitor which spawns a process to synchronize the changes (rsync by default).

* [restic](https://github.com/restic/restic) - Fast, secure, efficient backup program 

* [Rsnapshot](http://www.rsnapshot.org/) - Filesystem Snapshotting Utility.

* [SafeKeep](http://safekeep.sourceforge.net/) - Centralized pull-based backup using `rdiff-backup`.

* [Snebu](http://www.snebu.com/) – Snapshot backup with global multi-client deduplication and transparent compression.

* [UrBackup](http://www.urbackup.org/) - Another client-server backup system.

* [ZBackup](http://zbackup.org/) - A versatile deduplicating backup tool.



*Backup libraries.*



* [Backup](https://github.com/meskyanichi/backup) - Provides an elegant DSL in Ruby for performing backups on UNIX-like systems.

* [DREBS](https://github.com/dojo4/drebs) - AWS EBS backup script that supports strategies.



## Build Automation



*Build automation tools.*



* [Apache Ant](https://ant.apache.org/) - Automation build tool, similar to make, written in Java.

* [Apache Maven](http://maven.apache.org/) - Build automation tool mainly for Java.

* [GNU Make](http://www.gnu.org/software/make/) - The most popular automation build tool for many purposes.

* [Gradle](http://gradle.org/) - Another open source build automation system.



## ChatOps



*Conversation-driven development & management.*



* [CloudBot](https://github.com/CloudBotIRC/CloudBot) - The simple, fast, expandable, open-source Python IRC bot.

* [Eggdrop](http://www.eggheads.org/) - The world's most popular Open Source IRC bot, designed for flexibility and ease of use.

* [Err](http://errbot.net/) - A plugin based chatbot designed to be easily deployable, extensible and maintainable.

* [Hubot](https://hubot.github.com/) - A customizable, life embetterment robot.

* [Lazlo](https://github.com/djosephsen/lazlo) - A chatops automation framework in Go.

* [Lita](https://www.lita.io/) - A robot companion for your company's chat room.

* [KeyBase](https://www.keybase.io/) - Encrypted chat, cloud and git.



## Cloning



*Cloning software.*



* [Clonezilla](http://clonezilla.org/) - Partition and disk imaging/cloning program.

* [Fog](http://www.fogproject.org/) - Another computer cloning solution.

* [Redo Backup](http://redobackup.org/) - Easy Backup, Recovery and Restore.



## Cloud Computing



* [AppScale](http:/github.com/AppScale/appscale) - Open source cloud software with Google App Engine compatibility.

* [Archipel](http://archipelproject.org/) - Manage and supervise virtual machines using Libvirt.

* [CloudStack](http://cloudstack.apache.org/) - Cloud computing software for creating, managing, and deploying infrastructure cloud services.

* [Cobbler](http://cobbler.github.io) - Cobbler is a Linux installation server that allows for rapid setup of network installation environments.

* [Eucalyptus](https://www.eucalyptus.com/) - Open source private cloud software with AWS compatibility.

* [Mesos](http://mesos.apache.org/) - Develop and run resource-efficient distributed systems.

* [OpenNebula](http://opennebula.org/) - An user-driven cloud management platform for sysadmins and devops.

* [Openshift Origin](https://www.openshift.org/) - Open source upstream of OpenShift, the next generation application hosting platform developed by Red Hat.

* [OpenStack](https://www.openstack.org/) - Open source software for building private and public clouds.

* [The Foreman](http://theforeman.org/) - Foreman is a complete lifecycle management tool for physical and virtual servers. FOSS.

* [Tsuru](http://www.tsuru.io/) - Tsuru is an extensible and open source Platform as a Service software.

* [Terraform](https://terraform.io) - Terraform allows you to practice infrastructure as code and is commonly used for AWS/GCE.



## Cloud Orchestration



* [BOSH](http://docs.cloudfoundry.org/bosh/) -  IaaS orchestration platform originally written for deploying and managing Cloud Foundry PaaS, but also useful for general purpose distributed systems.

* [Ansible](http://www.ansible.com) - Contains modules for controlling many types of cloud resources.

* [Cloudify](http://cloudify.co/) -  Open source TOSCA-based cloud orchestration software platform written in Python and YAML.

* [consul](http://www.consul.io/) - It is a tool for discovering and configuring services in your infrastructure.

* [doozerd](https://github.com/ha/doozerd) - Doozer is a highly-available, completely consistent store for small amounts of extremely important data.

* [etcd](https://github.com/coreos/etcd) - A highly-available key value store for shared configuration and service discovery.

* [Juju](https://juju.ubuntu.com/) - Cloud orchestration tool which manages services as charms, YAML configuration and deployment script bundles.

* [MCollective](http://puppetlabs.com/mcollective) - Ruby framework to manage server orchestration, developed by Puppet labs.

* [Overcast](http://andrewchilds.github.io/overcast/) - Deploy VMs across different cloud providers, and run commands and scripts across any or all of them in parallel via SSH.

* [Rundeck](http://rundeck.org/) - Simple orchestration tool.

* [Salt](http://www.saltstack.com/) - Fast, scalable and flexible systems management software written in Python/ZeroMQ.

* [serf](http://www.serfdom.io/) - Serf is a tool for cluster membership.

* [StackStorm](http://stackstorm.com/) - Event Driven Operations and ChatOps platform for infrastructure management. Written in Python.

* [zookeeper](http://zookeeper.apache.org/) - ZooKeeper is a centralized service for maintaining configuration information, naming, providing distributed synchronization, and providing group services.



## Cloud Storage



* [git-annex assistant](http://git-annex.branchable.com/assistant/) - A synchronised folder on each of your OSX and Linux computers, Android devices, removable drives, NAS appliances, and cloud services.

* [nextCloud](https://nextcloud.com) - Provides access to your files via the web

* [ownCloud](https://owncloud.org) - Provides universal access to your files via the web, your computer or your mobile devices.

* [Seafile](http://seafile.com) - Another Open Source Cloud Storage solution.

* [SparkleShare](http://sparkleshare.org/) - Provides cloud storage and file synchronization services. By default, it uses Git as a storage backend.

* [Swift](http://docs.openstack.org/developer/swift/) - A highly available, distributed, eventually consistent object/blob store.

* [Syncthing](http://syncthing.net/) - Open Source system for private, encrypted and authenticated distribution of data.



## Code Review



*Web Based collaborative code review system.*



* [Gerrit](https://code.google.com/p/gerrit/) - Based on the Git version control, it facilitates software developers to review modifications to the source code and approve or reject those changes.

* [Phabricator](http://phabricator.org/) - Code review tool build by facebook and used by WikiMedia, FB, dropbox etc. Comes with an integrated wiki, bug tracker, VC integration and a CLI tool called arcanist.

* [Review Board](https://www.reviewboard.org/) - Web-based collaborative code review tool.



## Collaborative Software



*Collaborative software or groupware suites.*



* [Citadel/UX](http://www.citadel.org/) - Collaboration suite (messaging and groupware) that is descended from the Citadel family of programs.

* [EGroupware](http://www.egroupware.org/) - Groupware software written in PHP.

* [Horde Groupware](http://www.horde.org/apps/groupware) - PHP based collaborative software suite that includes email, calendars, wikis, time tracking and file management.

* [Kolab](https://www.kolab.org) - Another groupware suite.

* [SOGo](https://www.sogo.nu/) - Collaborative software server with a focus on simplicity and scalability.

* [Zimbra](https://www.zimbra.com/community/) - Collaborative software suite, that includes an email server and web client.



## Configuration Management Database



*Configuration management database (CMDB) software.*



* [Clusto](https://github.com/clusto/clusto) - Helps you keep track of your inventory, where it is, how it's connected, and provides an abstracted interface for interacting with the elements of the infrastructure.

* [Collins](http://tumblr.github.io/collins) - At Tumblr, it's the infrastructure source of truth and knowledge.

* [i-doit](http://www.i-doit.org/) - Open Source IT Documentation and CMDB.

* [iTop](http://www.combodo.com/-Overview-.html) - Complete open source, ITIL, web based service management tool.

* [Ralph](https://github.com/allegro/ralph) - Asset management, DCIM and CMDB system for large Data Centers as well as smaller LAN networks.

* [Sicekit](https://github.com/sicekit/sicekit) - The systems & infrastructure encyclopaedia toolkit (based on MediaWiki).



## Configuration Management



*Configuration management tools.*



* [Ansible](http://www.ansible.com/) -  It's written in Python and manages the nodes over SSH.

* [CFEngine](http://cfengine.com/) - Lightweight agent system. Configuration state is specified via a declarative language.

* [Chef](http://www.opscode.com/chef/) - It's written in Ruby and Erlang and uses a pure-Ruby DSL.

* [mgmt](https://github.com/purpleidea/mgmt) - Next generation config management written in Go.

* [Pallet](http://palletops.com/) - Infrastructure definition, configuration and management via a Clojure DSL.

* [Puppet](http://puppetlabs.com/) - It's written in Ruby and uses Puppet's declarative language or a Ruby DSL.

* [(R)?ex](https://www.rexify.org/) - It's written in Perl and use plain Perl, over SSH without agent.

* [Salt](http://www.saltstack.com/) - It's written in Python.

* [Slaughter](http://steve.org.uk/Software/slaughter/) - It's written in Perl.



## Continuous Integration & Continuous Deployment



*Continuous integration/deployment software.*



* [Buildbot](http://buildbot.net/) - Python-based toolkit for continuous integration.

* [Drone](https://github.com/drone/drone) - Continuous integration server built on Docker and configured using YAML files.

* [GitLab CI](https://www.gitlab.com/gitlab-ci/) - Based off of ruby. They also provide GitLab, which manages git repositories.

* [Go](http://www.go.cd/) - Open source continuous delivery server.

* [Jenkins](http://jenkins-ci.org/) - An extendable open source continuous integration server.

* [Concourse CI](https://concourse.ci/) - A pipeline-based CI system written in Go.

* [Spinnaker](http://www.spinnaker.io/) - Open source, multi-cloud continuous delivery platform for releasing software changes.

* [TeamCity](https://www.jetbrains.com/teamcity/) - Powerful Continuous Integration out of the box



## Control Panels



*Web hosting and server control panels.*



* [Ajenti](http://ajenti.org/) - Control panel for Linux and BSD.

* [Cockpit](http://cockpit-project.org/) - New multi-server web interface for Linux servers written in C.

* [Feathur](http://feathur.com) - VPS Provisioning and Management Software.

* [Froxlor](http://www.froxlor.org/) - Easy to use panel for Linux with Nginx and PHP-FPM support.

* [ISPConfig](http://www.ispconfig.org) - Hosting control panel for Linux.

* [Sentora](http://sentora.org/) - Control panel for Linux, BSD, and Windows based on ZPanel.

* [VestaCP](http://www.vestacp.com/) - Hosting panel for Linux but with Nginx.

* [Virtualmin](http://www.virtualmin.com/) - Control panel for Linux based on webmin.

* [Webmin](http://www.webmin.com/) - Linux server control panel.

* [ZPanel](http://www.zpanelcp.com/) - Control panel for Linux, BSD, and Windows.



## Deployment Automation



*Tools and scripts to support deployments to your servers.*



* [Capistrano](http://www.capistranorb.com) - Deploy your application to any number of machines simultaneously, in sequence or as a rolling set via SSH (rake based).

* [Fabric](http://www.fabfile.org/) - Python library and cli tool for streamlining the use of SSH for application deployment or systems administration tasks.

* [Mina](http://nadarei.co/mina/) - Really fast deployer and server automation tool (rake based).

* [Rocketeer](http://rocketeer.autopergamene.eu/) - PHP task runner and deployment tool.

* [Vlad the Deployer](http://rubyhitsquad.com/Vlad_the_Deployer.html) - Deployment automation (rake based).



## Diagramming



*Tools to diagram networks.*



* [drawthe.net](http://go.drawthe.net/) - Draws network diagrams dynamically from a text file describing the placement, layout and icons.



## Distributed Filesystems



*Network distributed filesystems.*



* [Ceph](http://ceph.com/) - Distributed object store and file system.

* [DRBD](http://www.drbd.org/) - Distributed Replicated Block Device.

* [LeoFS](http://leo-project.net) - Unstructured object/data storage and a highly available, distributed, eventually consistent storage system.

* [GlusterFS](http://www.gluster.org/) - Scale-out network-attached storage file system.

* [HDFS](http://hadoop.apache.org/) - Distributed, scalable, and portable file-system written in Java for the Hadoop framework.

* [Lustre](http://lustre.opensfs.org/) -  A type of parallel distributed file system, generally used for large-scale cluster computing.

* [MooseFS](http://www.moosefs.org/) - Fault tolerant, network distributed file system.

* [MogileFS](http://mogilefs.org/) - Application level, network distributed file system.

* [OpenAFS](http://www.openafs.org/) - Distributed network file system with read-only replicas and multi-OS support.

* [TahoeLAFS](https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs) - secure, decentralized, fault-tolerant, peer-to-peer distributed data store and distributed file system.

* [XtreemFS](http://www.xtreemfs.org/) - XtreemFS is a fault-tolerant distributed file system for all storage needs.



## DNS



*DNS servers.*



* [Bind](https://www.isc.org/downloads/bind/) - The most widely used name server software.

* [djbdns](http://cr.yp.to/djbdns.html) - A collection of DNS applications, including tinydns.

* [Designate](https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Designate) - DNS REST API that support several DNS servers as its backend.

* [dnsmasq](http://www.thekelleys.org.uk/dnsmasq/doc.html) - A lightweight service providing DNS, DHCP and TFTP services to small-scale networks.

* [Knot](https://www.knot-dns.cz/) - High performance authoritative-only DNS server.

* [NSD](http://www.nlnetlabs.nl/projects/nsd/) - Authoritative only, high performance, simple name server.

* [PowerDNS](https://www.powerdns.com/) - DNS server with a variety of data storage back-ends and load balancing features.

* [Unbound](http://unbound.net/) - Validating, recursive, and caching DNS resolver.

* [Yadifa](http://yadifa.eu/) - Lightweight authoritative Name Server with DNSSEC capabilities powering the .eu top-level domain.



## Editors



*Open source code editors.*



* [Atom](https://atom.io/) - A hackable text editor from GitHub.

* [Brackets](http://brackets.io/) - Open source code editor for web designers and front-end developers.

* [Eclipse](http://eclipse.org/) - IDE written in Java with an extensible plug-in system.

* [Geany](http://www.geany.org/) - GTK2 text editor.

* [GNU Emacs](http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) - An extensible, customizable text editor-and more.

* [Haroopad](http://pad.haroopress.com/) - Markdown editor with live preview.

* [ICEcoder](http://icecoder.net) - Code editor awesomeness, built with common web languages.

* [IntellijIDEA](https://github.com/JetBrains/intellij-community) - Capable and ergonomic IDE, written in Java, It has a lot of plug-ins.

* [jotgit](https://github.com/jdleesmiller/jotgit) - Git-backed real-time collaborative code editing.

* [Light Table](http://www.lighttable.com/) - The next generation code editor.

* [Lime](http://limetext.org/) - Aims to provide an open source solution to Sublime Text

* [SciTE](http://www.scintilla.org/SciTE.html) - A SCIntilla based Text Editor.

* [TextMate](https://github.com/textmate/textmate/) - A graphical text editor for OS X.

* [Vim](http://www.vim.org) - A highly configurable text editor built to enable efficient editing.

* [Nano](http://https://www.nano-editor.org/) - A popular text editor, by default comes with most Linux distributions.

* [Visual Studio Code](https://code.visualstudio.com/) - Fast, hackable, multi-platform code editor from Microsoft.



## IT Asset Management



*IT Assets Management software.*



* [GLPI](http://www.glpi-project.org/spip.php?lang=en) - Information Resource-Manager with an additional Administration Interface.

* [OCS Inventory NG](http://www.ocsinventory-ng.org/en/) - Enables users to inventory their IT assets.

* [Netbox](https://github.com/digitalocean/netbox) - IP address management (IPAM) and data center infrastructure management (DCIM) tool.

* [RackTables](http://racktables.org/) - Datacenter and server room asset management like document hardware assets, network addresses, space in racks, networks configuration.

* [Ralph](https://github.com/allegro/ralph) - Asset management, DCIM and CMDB system for large Data Centers as well as smaller LAN networks.

* [Snipe IT](http://snipeitapp.com/) - Asset & license management software.

* [OpenDCIM](http://www.opendcim.org/) - A web based Data Center Infrastructure Management application.



## LDAP



*LDAP servers.*



* [389 Directory Server](http://port389.org) - Developed by Red Hat.

* [Apache Directory Server](http://directory.apache.org/) - Apache Software Foundation project written in Java.

* [Fusion Directory](http://www.fusiondirectory.org) - Improve the Management of the services and the company directory based on OpenLDAP.

* [OpenDJ](http://opendj.forgerock.org/) - Fork of OpenDS.

* [OpenDS](https://opends.java.net/) - Another directory server written in Java.

* [OpenLDAP](http://openldap.org/) - Developed by the OpenLDAP Project.



*LDAP management*



* [Apache Directory Studio](https://directory.apache.org/studio/) - The Eclipse-based LDAP browser and directory client



## Log Management



*Log management tools: collect, parse, visualize ...*



* [Echofish](http://www.echothrust.com/projects/echofish) - A web based real-time event log aggregation, analysis, monitoring and management system.

* [Elasticsearch](http://www.elasticsearch.org/) - A Lucene Based Document store mainly used for log indexing, storage and analysis.

* [Fluentd](http://www.fluentd.org/) - Log Collector and Shipper.

* [Flume](https://flume.apache.org/) - Distributed log collection and aggregation system.

* [Graylog2](http://graylog2.org/) - Pluggable Log and Event Analysis Server with Alerting options.

* [Heka](http://hekad.readthedocs.org/en/latest/) - Stream processing system which may be used for log aggregation.

* [Kibana](http://www.elasticsearch.org/overview/kibana/) - Visualize logs and time-stamped data.

* [Logstash](http://logstash.net/) - Tool for managing events and logs.

* [Octopussy](http://www.octopussy.pm) - Log Management Solution (Visualize / Alert / Report).



## Mail Servers



*Mail Delivery Agents (IMAP/POP3 software).*



* [Courier IMAP/POP3](http://www.courier-mta.org/imap/) - Fast, scalable, enterprise IMAP and POP3 server.

* [Cyrus IMAP/POP3](http://cyrusimap.org/) - Intended to be run on sealed servers, where normal users are not permitted to log in.

* [Dovecot](http://www.dovecot.org/) - IMAP and POP3 server written primarily with security in mind.

* [Qpopper](http://www.eudora.com/products/unsupported/qpopper/) - One of the oldest and most popular server implementations of POP3.



*Mail Transfer Agents (SMTP servers).*



* [Exim](http://www.exim.org/) - Message transfer agent (MTA) developed at the University of Cambridge.

* [Haraka](http://haraka.github.io/) - A high-performance, pluginable SMTP server written in JavaScript.

* [MailCatcher](http://mailcatcher.me/) - Ruby gem that deploys a simply SMTP MTA gateway that accepts all mail and displays in web interface. Useful for debugging or development.

* [Maildrop](https://github.com/m242/maildrop) - Open Source disposable email SMTP server, also useful for development.

* [OpenSMTPD](https://opensmtpd.org/) - Secure SMTP server implementation from the OpenBSD project.

* [Postfix](http://www.postfix.org/) - Fast, easy to administer, and secure Sendmail replacement.

* [Qmail](http://cr.yp.to/qmail.html) - Secure Sendmail replacement.

* [Sendmail](http://www.sendmail.com/sm/open_source/) - Message transfer agent (MTA).



*Complete solutions.*



* [Mail-in-a-Box](https://mailinabox.email/) - Take back control of your email with this easy-to-deploy mail server in a box.

* [iRedMail](http://www.iredmail.org/) - Full-featured mail server solution based on Postfix and Dovecot.



## Messaging



*XMPP servers.*



* [ejabberd](http://www.ejabberd.im/) - XMPP instant messaging server written in Erlang/OTP.

* [Metronome IM](http://www.lightwitch.org/metronome) - Fork of Prosody IM.

* [MongooseIM](https://www.erlang-solutions.com/products/mongooseim.html) - Fullstack real-time mobile messaging platform (XMPP+REST) in Erlang

* [Openfire](http://www.igniterealtime.org/projects/openfire/) - Real time collaboration (RTC) server.

* [Prosody IM](http://prosody.im/) - XMPP server written in Lua.

* [Tigase](https://projects.tigase.org/projects/tigase-server) - XMPP server implementation in Java.



*XMPP web clients.*



* [Candy](http://candy-chat.github.io/candy/) - Multi user XMPP client written in Javascript.

* [Kaiwa](http://getkaiwa.com/) - Web based chat client in the style of common paid alternatives.



*Webchats.*



* [Lets-Chat](http://sdelements.github.io/lets-chat/) - A self hosted chat suite written in Node.



## Monitoring



*Monitoring software.*



* [Alerta](https://github.com/guardian/alerta) - Distributed, scaleable and flexible monitoring system.

* [Canopsis](http://www.canopsis.org) - Opensource Hypervision and Data Aggregation Software

* [Cacti](http://www.cacti.net) - Web-based network monitoring and graphing tool.

* [Cabot](http://cabotapp.com/) - Monitoring and alerts, similar to PagerDuty.

* [Centreon](http://www.centreon.com) - IT infrastructure and application monitoring for service performance.

* [check_mk](http://mathias-kettner.com/check_mk.html) - Collection of extensions for Nagios.

* [Flapjack](http://flapjack.io/) - Monitoring notification routing & event processing system.

* [Icinga](https://www.icinga.org/) - Fork of Nagios.

* [LibreNMS](https://github.com/librenms/librenms/) - fork of Observium.

* [Monit](http://mmonit.com/monit/#home) - Small Open Source utility for managing and monitoring Unix systems.

* [Munin](http://munin-monitoring.org/) - Networked resource monitoring tool.

* [Naemon](http://www.naemon.org/) - Network monitoring tool based on the Nagios 4 core with performance enhancements and new features.

* [Nagios](http://www.nagios.org/) - Computer system, network and infrastructure monitoring software application.

* [Node-Bell](https://github.com/eleme/node-bell) - Real-time anomalies detection for periodic time series, metrics monitor.

* [Observium](http://www.observium.org/) - SNMP monitoring for servers and networking devices. Runs on linux.

* [Opsview](http://www.opsview.com/solutions/core) - Based on Nagios 4, Opsview Core is ideal for small IT and test environments.

* [Riemann](http://riemann.io/) - Flexible and fast events processor allowing complex events/metrics analysis.

* [Sensu](http://sensuapp.org/) - Open source monitoring framework.

* [Sentry](https://getsentry.com/) - Application monitoring, event logging and aggregation.

* [Serverstats](https://sourceforge.net/projects/serverstats.berlios/) - A simple tool for creating graphs using rrdtool. ([source on github](https://github.com/ddanier/serverstats))

* [Seyren](https://github.com/scobal/seyren) - An alerting dashboard for Graphite.

* [Shinken](http://www.shinken-monitoring.org/) - Another monitoring framework.

* [Xymon](http://www.xymon.com/) - Network monitoring inspired by Big Brother.

* [Zabbix](http://www.zabbix.com/) - Enterprise-class software for monitoring of networks and applications.

* [Zenoss](http://community.zenoss.org) - Application, server, and network management platform based on Zope.



*Monitoring dashboards.*



* [Adagios](http://adagios.org/) - Web based Nagios configuration interface.

* [Dash](https://github.com/afaqurk/linux-dash) - A low-overhead monitoring web dashboard for a GNU/Linux machine.

* [Thruk](http://www.thruk.org/) - Multibackend monitoring web interface with support for Naemon, Nagios, Icinga and Shinken.

* [Uchiwa](https://uchiwa.io) - Simple dashboard for the Sensu monitoring framework.



*Monitoring distributions.*



* [OMD](http://omdistro.org/) - The Open Monitoring Distribution.



## Metric & Metric Collection



*Metric gathering and display software.*



* [Collectd](http://collectd.org/) - System statistic collection daemon.

* [Collectl](http://collectl.sourceforge.net/) - High precision system performance metrics collecting tool.

* [~~dashing~~](http://dashing.io/) - __No Longer Maintained__ - Ruby gem that allows for rapid statistical dashboard development. An all HTML5 approach allows for big screen displays in data centers or conference rooms.

* [Smashing](https://github.com/Smashing/smashing) - Ruby gem that allows for rapid statistical dashboard development. An all HTML5 approach allows for big screen displays in data centers or conference rooms. Fork of Dashing.

* [Diamond](https://github.com/BrightcoveOS/Diamond) - Python based statistic collection daemon.

* [Facette](http://facette.io) - Time series data visualization and graphing software written in Go.

* [Freeboard](https://github.com/Freeboard/freeboard) - A damn-sexy front-end real-time dashboard. Transforms raw JSON into delicious UI.

* [Ganglia](http://ganglia.sourceforge.net/) - High performance, scalable RRD based monitoring for grids and/or clusters of servers. Compatible with Graphite using a single collection process.

* [Grafana](http://grafana.org/) - A Graphite & InfluxDB Dashboard and Graph Editor.

* [Graphite](http://graphite.readthedocs.org/en/latest/) - Open source scalable graphing server.

* [InfluxDB](http://influxdb.com/) - Open source distributed time series database with no external dependencies.

* [KairosDB](https://code.google.com/p/kairosdb/) - Fast distributed scalable time series database, fork of OpenTSDB 1.x.

* [NetData](http://my-netdata.io) - Distributed real-time performance and health monitoring.

* [OpenTSDB](http://opentsdb.net/) - Store and server massive amounts of time series data without losing granularity.

* [Packetbeat](http://packetbeat.com/) - Captures network traffic and displays it in a custom Kibana dashboard for easy viewing.

* [Prometheus](http://prometheus.io/) - Service monitoring system and time series database.

* [RRDtool](http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/) - Open source industry standard, high performance data logging and graphing system for time series data.

* [Statsd](https://github.com/etsy/statsd/) - Application statistic listener.



## Network Configuration Management



*Network configuration management tools.*



* [GestióIP](http://www.gestioip.net/) - An automated web based IPv4/IPv6 IP Address Management tool.

* [NOC Project](http://nocproject.org/) - Scalable, high-performance and open-source [OSS](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operations_support_system) system for ISP, service and content providers.

* [Netbox](https://github.com/digitalocean/netbox) - IP address management (IPAM) and data center infrastructure management (DCIM) tool.

* [Oxidized](https://github.com/ytti/oxidized) - A modern take on network device configuration monitoring with web interface and GIT storage.

* [phpIPAM](http://phpipam.net/) - Open source IP address management with [PowerDNS](https://www.powerdns.com/) integration.

* [RANCID](http://www.shrubbery.net/rancid/) - Monitors network device's configuration and maintain history of changes.

* [rConfig](http://www.rconfig.com/) - Another network device configuration management tool.

* [trigger](https://github.com/trigger/trigger) - Robust network automation toolkit written in Python.



## Newsletters



*Newsletter software.*



* [DadaMail](http://dadamailproject.com/) - Mailing List Manager, written in Perl.

* [phpList](http://www.phplist.com/) - Newsletter manager written in PHP.



## NoSQL



*Column-Family.*



  * [Apache HBase](http://hbase.apache.org/) - Hadoop database, a distributed, big data store.

  * [Cassandra](http://cassandra.apache.org/) - Distributed DBMS designed to handle large amounts of data across many servers.

  * [Hypertable](http://hypertable.org/) - C++ based BigTable-like DBMS, communicates through Thrift and runs either as stand-alone or on distributed FS such as Hadoop.



*Document Store.*



  * [CouchDB](http://couchdb.apache.org/) - Ease of use, with multi-master replication document-oriented database system.

  * [ElasticSearch](http://www.elasticsearch.org/) - Java based database, popular with log aggregation, and email archiving projects.

  * [MongoDB](http://www.mongodb.org/) - Another document-oriented database system.

  * [RavenDB](http://ravendb.net/) - Document based database with ACID/Transactional features.

  * [RethinkDB](http://www.rethinkdb.com/) - Open source distributed document store database, focuses on JSON.



*Graph.*



  * [FlockDB](https://github.com/twitter/flockdb) - Twitter's distributed, fault-tolerant graph database.

  * [Neo4j](http://www.neo4j.org/) - Open source graph database.



*Key-Value.*



  * [Couchbase](http://www.couchbase.com/) - In-memory, replicated, peristent key/value datastore.

  * [LevelDB](https://github.com/google/leveldb) - Google's high performance key/value database.

  * [Redis](http://redis.io/) - Networked, in-memory, key-value data store with optional durability.

  * [Riak](http://basho.com/riak/) - Another fault-tolerant key-value NoSQL database.



## Packaging



* [fpm](https://github.com/jordansissel/fpm) - Versatile multi format package creator.

* [omnibus-ruby](https://github.com/opscode/omnibus-ruby) - Full stack, cross distro packaging software (Ruby).

* [packman](http://packman.readthedocs.org) - Full stack, cross distro packaging software (Python).

* [tito](https://github.com/dgoodwin/tito) - Builds RPMs for git-based projects.



## Queuing



*Queuing software.*



* [ActiveMQ](http://activemq.apache.org/) - An open source message broker written in Java together with a full JMS client.

* [BeanstalkD](http://kr.github.io/beanstalkd/) - A simple, fast work queue.

* [Gearman](http://gearman.org/) - Fast multi-language queuing/job processing platform.

* [Kafka](http://kafka.apache.org/) - A high-throughput distributed messaging system.

* [NSQ](http://nsq.io/) - A realtime distributed messaging platform.

* [RabbitMQ](http://www.rabbitmq.com/) - Robust, fully featured, cross distro queuing system.



*Queuing libraries.*



* [ZeroMQ](http://zeromq.org/) -  High-performance asynchronous messaging library.



## RDBMS

*Relational DBMS.*



* [Firebird](http://www.firebirdsql.org/) - True universal open source database.

* [Galera](http://galeracluster.com/) - Galera Cluster for MySQL is an easy-to-use high-availability solution with high system up-time, no data loss, and scalability for future growth.

* [MariaDB](https://mariadb.org/) - Community-developed fork of the MySQL.

* [MySQL](http://dev.mysql.com/) - Most popular RDBMS server.

* [Percona Server](http://www.percona.com/software) - Enhanced, drop-in MySQL replacement.

* [PostgreSQL](http://www.postgresql.org/) - Object-relational database management system (ORDBMS).

* [PostgreSQL-XL](http://www.postgres-xl.org/) - Scalable Open Source PostgreSQL-based database cluster.

* [SQLite](http://sqlite.org/) - Library that implements a self-contained, serverless, zero-configuration, transactional SQL DBS.



## Security



*Security tools.*



* [Blackbox](https://github.com/StackExchange/blackbox) - Safely store secrets in Git/Mercurial. Provides tooling to automatically encrypt secrets like passwords.

* [Denyhosts](http://denyhosts.sourceforge.net/) - Thwart SSH dictionary based attacks and brute force attacks.

* [Fail2Ban](http://www.fail2ban.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page) - Scans log files and takes action on IPs that show malicious behavior.

* [fwknop](https://www.cipherdyne.org/fwknop/) - Protects ports via Single Packet Authorization in your firewall.

* [Glastopf](http://glastopf.org/) - A low-interaction web application honeypot to emulate vulnerabilities and gather attack data.

* [Kippo](https://github.com/desaster/kippo) - A medium-interaction SSH honeypot, mostly used as a standalone SSH daemon with a configurable Filesystem sandbox.

* [OSSEC](http://ossec.net) - OSSEC is a HIDS that performs log analysis, FIM, rootkit detection, and much more.

* [OSQuery](https://osquery.io/) - Query your servers status and info using a SQL like interface.

* [pfSense](https://www.pfsense.org/) - Firewall and Router FreeBSD distribution.

* [Snort](https://www.snort.org/) - Snort is a free and open source network intrusion prevention system (NIPS) and network intrusion detection system (NIDS) created by Martin Roesch in 1998.

* [SpamAssassin](https://spamassassin.apache.org/) - A powerful and popular email spam filter employing a variety of detection technique.

* [BounCA](https://bounca.org/) - BounCA is a personal SSL / Certificate Authority Key management tool. Create self-signed SSL certificates via your browser. ([Source Code](https://github.com/repleo/bounca)) `Apache` `Python`



## Service Discovery



* [Consul](http://www.consul.io/) - Consul is a tool for service discovery, monitoring and configuration.

* [Doozerd](https://github.com/ha/doozerd) - Doozer is a highly-available, completely consistent store for small amounts of extremely important data.

* [ZooKeeper](http://zookeeper.apache.org/) - ZooKeeper is a centralized service for maintaining configuration information, naming, providing distributed synchronization, and providing group services.



## Software Containers



*Operating system–level virtualization.*



* [Bitnami](https://bitnami.com/) - Produces open source installers or software packages for web applications and development stacks as well as virtual appliances.

* [Docker](http://www.docker.com/) - Open platform for developers and sysadmins to build, ship, and run distributed applications.

* [LXC](https://linuxcontainers.org/lxc/) -  Userspace interface for the Linux kernel containment features.

* [LXD](https://linuxcontainers.org/lxd/) - LXD is a container "hypervisor".

* [OpenVZ](http://openvz.org) - Container-based virtualization for Linux.

* [Docker Compose](https://docs.docker.com/compose/) - Fast, isolated development environments using Docker.

* [Singularity](http://singularity.lbl.gov/) - Flexible containers without root.



## SSH



*SSH tools.*



* [Advanced SSH config](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/advanced-ssh-config/) - Enhances ssh_config file capabilities, completely transparent.

* [autossh](http://www.harding.motd.ca/autossh/) - Automatically respawn ssh session after network interruption.

* [Cluster SSH](http://sourceforge.net/projects/clusterssh/) - Controls a number of xterm windows via a single graphical console.

* [DSH](http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer/software/dsh.html.en) - Dancer's shell / distributed shell - Wrapper for executing multiple remote shell commands from one command line.

* [Mosh](http://mosh.mit.edu/) - The mobile shell.

* [parallel-ssh](http://code.google.com/p/parallel-ssh/) - Provides parallel versions of OpenSSH and related tools.

* [pdsh](https://code.google.com/p/pdsh/) - Pdsh is a high-performance, parallel remote shell utility.

* [SSH Power Tool](http://code.google.com/p/sshpt/) - Execute commands and upload files to many servers simultaneously without using pre-shared keys.

* [sshrc](https://github.com/Russell91/sshrc) - sources ~/.sshrc on your local computer after logging in remotely.

* [stormssh](http://stormssh.readthedocs.org) - A command line tool to manage SSH connections.



## Statistics



*Analytics software.*



* [Analog](http://www.web42.com/analog/) - Logfile Analyser.

* [AWStats](http://www.awstats.org/) - Generates web, streaming, ftp or mail server statistics graphically.

* [GoAccess](http://goaccess.io/) - Real-time web log analyzer and interactive viewer that runs in a terminal.

* [Open Web Analytics](http://www.openwebanalytics.com/) - Add web analytics to websites using JS, PHP or REST APIs.

* [Piwik](http://piwik.org/) - Web analytics application.

* [Webalizer](http://www.webalizer.org/) - Fast, free web server log file analysis program.



## Status Pages



* [Cachet](https://cachethq.io) - An open source status page system written in PHP.



## Ticketing systems



*Web-based ticketing system.*



* [Bugzilla](http://www.bugzilla.org/) - General-purpose bugtracker and testing tool originally developed and used by the Mozilla project.

* [Cerb](http://www.cerberusweb.com/) - Group-based e-mail management project.

* [Flyspray](http://flyspray.org) - Web-based bug tracking system written in PHP.

* [MantisBT](http://www.mantisbt.org/) - Web-based bug tracking system.

* [osTicket](http://osticket.com/) - Simple support ticket system.

* [OTRS](http://www.otrs.com/) - Trouble ticket system for assigning tickets to incoming queries and tracking further communications.

* [Redmine](http://www.redmine.org/) - Open source project management/ticketing web application written in Ruby.

* [Request Tracker](http://www.bestpractical.com/rt/) - Ticket-tracking system written in Perl.

* [TheBugGenie](http://www.thebuggenie.com) - Ticket system with extensive user rights system.



## Troubleshooting



*Troubleshooting tools.*



* [mitmproxy](http://mitmproxy.org/) - A Python tool used for intercepting, viewing and modifying network traffic. Invaluable in troubleshooting certain problems.

* [Sysdig](http://www.sysdig.org/) - Capture system state and activity from a running Linux instance, then save, filter and analyze.

* [Wireshark](http://www.wireshark.org/) - The world's foremost network protocol analyzer.



*Troubleshooting distributions.*



* [Trinity Rescue Kit](http://trinityhome.org) - Linux Live CD for general computer troubleshooting.



## Project Management



*Web-based project management and bug tracking systems.*



* [ChiliProject](https://www.chiliproject.org) - Fork of Redmine.

* [GitBucket](https://github.com/takezoe/gitbucket) Clone of GitHub written in Scala; single jar install.

* [GitLab](https://www.gitlab.com/) - Clone of GitHub written in Ruby.

* [Gogs](http://gogs.io/) - Self-hosted Git service written in Go.

* [OpenProject](https://www.openproject.org) - Project collaboration with open source.

* [Phabricator](http://phabricator.org/) Written in PHP.

* [Redmine](http://www.redmine.org/) - Written in ruby on rails.

* [Taiga](https://taiga.io/) - Agile, Free, Open Source Project Management Tool based on the Kanban and Scrum methods.

* [The Bug Genie](http://www.thebuggenie.com/) - Written in PHP.

* [Trac](http://trac.edgewall.org/) - Written in python.



## Version control



*Software versioning and revision control.*



* [Fossil](http://www.fossil-scm.org/) - Distributed version control with built-in wiki and bug tracking.

* [Git](http://git-scm.com/) - Distributed revision control and source code management (SCM) with an emphasis on speed.

* [GNU Bazaar](http://bazaar.canonical.com/) - Distributed revision control system sponsored by Canonical.

* [Mercurial](http://mercurial.selenic.com/) - Another distributed revision control.

* [Subversion](http://subversion.apache.org/) - Client-server revision control system.



## Virtualization



*Virtualization software.*



* [Archipel](http://archipelproject.org/) - XMPP based virtualization management platform.

* [Ganeti](https://code.google.com/p/ganeti/) - Cluster virtual server management software tool built on top of KVM and Xen.

* [KVM](http://www.linux-kvm.org) - Linux kernel virtualization infrastructure.

* [OpenNebula](http://opennebula.org/) - Flexible enterprise cloud made simple.

* [oVirt](http://www.ovirt.org/) - Manages virtual machines, storage and virtual networks.

* [Packer](http://www.packer.io/) - A tool for creating identical machine images for multiple platforms from a single source configuration.

* [Proxmox VE](https://www.proxmox.com/proxmox-ve) - Complete open source virtualization management solution.

* [QEMU](http://www.qemu.org/) - QEMU is a generic and open source machine emulator and virtualizer.

* [Vagrant](https://www.vagrantup.com/) - Tool for building complete development environments.

* [VirtualBox](https://www.virtualbox.org/) - Virtualization product from Oracle Corporation.

* [Xen](http://www.xenproject.org/) - Virtual machine monitor for 32/64 bit Intel / AMD (IA 64) and PowerPC 970 architectures.



## VPN



*VPN software.*



* [OpenVPN](https://community.openvpn.net) - Uses a custom security protocol that utilizes SSL/TLS for key exchange.

* [Pritunl](http://pritunl.com/) - OpenVPN based solution. Easy to set up.

* [SoftEther](https://www.softether.org/) - Multi-protocol software VPN with advanced features

* [sshuttle](https://github.com/apenwarr/sshuttle) - Poor man's VPN.

* [strongSwan](http://www.strongswan.org/) - Complete IPsec implementation for Linux.

* [tinc](http://www.tinc-vpn.org/) - Distributed p2p VPN.

* [wireguard](https://www.wireguard.com/) - New minimal VPN Solution that is very fast.



## Web



*Web servers.*



* [Apache](http://httpd.apache.org/) - Most popular web server.

* [Caddy](https://caddyserver.com/) - The HTTP/2 Web Server with Fully Managed TLS.

* [Cherokee](http://cherokee-project.com/) - Lightweight, high-performance web server/reverse proxy.

* [Lighttpd](http://www.lighttpd.net/) - Web server more optimized for speed-critical environments.

* [Nginx](http://nginx.org/) - Reverse proxy, load balancer, HTTP cache, and web server.

* [uWSGI](https://github.com/unbit/uwsgi/) - The uWSGI project aims at developing a full stack for building hosting services.



*Web Performance.*



* [HAProxy](http://www.haproxy.org/) - Software based load Balancing, SSL offloading and performance optimization, compression, and general web routing.

* [Squid](http://www.squid-cache.org/) - Caching proxy for the web supporting HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and more.

* [Traefik](https://traefik.io/) - Træfɪk is a modern HTTP reverse proxy and load balancer made to deploy microservices with ease.

* [Varnish](https://www.varnish-cache.org/) - HTTP based web application accelerator focusing on optimizing caching and compression.



## Webmails



*Webmail applications.*



* [Mailpile](https://www.mailpile.is/) - A modern, fast web-mail client with user-friendly encryption and privacy features.

* [Roundcube](http://roundcube.net/) - Browser-based IMAP client with an application-like user interface.

* [SquirrelMail](http://squirrelmail.org) - Another browser-based IMAP client.



## Wikis



*Wiki software.*



* [BookStack](https://www.bookstackapp.com/) - A simple, user-friendly wiki built with PHP that uses MySQL for storage.

* [DokuWiki](https://www.dokuwiki.org/dokuwiki) - Simple to use and highly versatile wiki that doesn't require a database.

* [Gollum](https://github.com/gollum/gollum) - A simple, Git-powered wiki with a sweet API and local frontend.

* [ikiwiki](http://ikiwiki.info/) - A wiki compiler.

* [MDwiki](http://dynalon.github.io/mdwiki/#!index.md) - Wiki completely built in HTML5/Javascript and runs 100% on the client.

* [MediaWiki](http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki) - Used to power Wikipedia.

* [MoinMoin](http://moinmo.in/) - An advanced, easy to use and extensible WikiEngine with a large community of users.

* [Ōlelo Wiki](https://github.com/minad/olelo) - A a wiki that stores pages in a Git repository.

* [TiddlyWiki](http://tiddlywiki.com) - Complete interactive wiki in JavaScript.



# Resources



Various resources, such as books, websites and articles, for improving your skills and knowledge.



## Blogs



* [Code as Craft](http://codeascraft.com/) - Etsy's Ops blog, lots of technical posts.

* [DevOpsGuys](http://blog.devopsguys.com/) - Devops consultants who blog about operations.

* [Rackspace Developers](http://developer.rackspace.com/blog/) - Slightly biased blog with lots of Devops Topics.



## Books



*Sysadmin related books.*



* [Learn Cisco Network Administration in a Month of Lunches] (https://www.manning.com/books/learn-cisco-network-administration-in-a-month-of-lunches) - A tutorial designed for sysadmins who need to learn how to administer Cisco switches and routers.

* [The Linux Command Line](http://linuxcommand.org/tlcl.php) - A book about the Linux command line by William Shotts.

* [The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win](http://itrevolution.com/books/phoenix-project-devops-book/) - How DevOps techniques can fix the problems that happen in IT organizations.

* [The Practice of System and Network Administration](http://everythingsysadmin.com/books.html) - The first and second editions describes the best practices of system and network administration, independent of specific platforms or technologies.

* [The Visible Ops Handbook: Implementing ITIL in 4 Practical and Auditable Steps](http://www.itpi.org/the-visible-ops-handbook-review.html) - Is a methodology designed to jumpstart implementation of controls and process improvement.

* [UNIX and Linux System Administration Handbook](http://www.admin.com/) - Approaches system administration from a practical perspective.

* [Securing DevOps](https://manning.com/books/securing-devops?a_aid=securingdevops&a_bid=1353bcd8) - A book on Security techniques for DevOps that reviews state of the art practices used in securing web applications and their infrastructure.



## Newsletters



* [Servers for Hackers](http://serversforhackers.com/) - Newsletter for programmers who find themselves needing to know their way around a server.

* [DevOpsLinks](http://devopslinks.com) - A community of DevOps, SysAdmin & Developers with a weekly newsletter and a team chat.



## Repositories



*Debian-based distributions.*



* [Dotdeb](http://www.dotdeb.org/) - Repository with LAMP updated packages for Debian.



*RPM-based distributions.*



* [ElRepo](http://elrepo.org/tiki/tiki-index.php) - Community Repo for Enterprise Linux (RHEL, CentOS, etc).

* [EPEL](https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL) - Repository for RHEL and compatibles (CentOS, Scientific Linux).

* [Remi](http://rpms.famillecollet.com/) - Repository with LAMP updated packages for RHEL/Centos/Fedora.

* [Software Collections](https://www.softwarecollections.org) - Community Release of [Red Hat Software Collections](https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Software_Collections/). Provides updated packages of Ruby, Python, etc. for CentOS/Scientific Linux 6.x.



## Websites



*Useful sysadmin related websites.*



* [Ops School](http://www.opsschool.org) - Comprehensive program that will help you learn to be an operations engineer.

* [Digital Ocean Tutorials](https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials) - A surprisingly vast resource for getting the basics of certain applications, tools, or even systems administration topics.



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