You can find tools just about anything
that you can imagine. In case, if you were to collect a complete
single list of tools to comprise on your open source server farm,
what would be that list includes?
Well, it is true that the
list tends to change; however, certain tools always stay on it.
Below, you can find some of the most important tools that you can
check out and use in your day-to-day task:
Capistrano –
When it comes to talking
about Capistrano, it is a remote server automation and deployment
tool, which supports scripting and task automation. Users of this
tool can easily deploy web apps to multiple machines concurrently or
in sequence, run automatic audits, perform data migrations, script
arbitrary workflows over SSH and more. This tool can easily be
integrated with any Ruby software.
Mono –
An open source
implementation of Microsoft’s .NET technologies ‘Mono’ is the
best open source tool that has captured the attention of numerous
developers and businesses on a worldwide scale.
This high-end tool is
sponsored by Novell and it is known for combining two incompatible
worlds into a single agile, open source and steady realm. Moreover,
this high-end tool enables users to generate advanced server-side
applications on Linux, Windows and Mac OS X.
phpMyAdmin –
Do you want a tool to
make the management of your MySQL database a lot easier? phpMyAdmin
is one such tool that you are looking for. This tool is extremely
easy to install and use as the tool has taken up little room on your
server.
This tool has made
managing database, tables, columns, indexes, columns, permissions and
more. Moreover, it is a web-based interface that made managing your
database a lot simple as point and click.
Apache –
Internet’s most popular
and wide used web server ‘The Apache Web Server’ is the project
that everyone associates with apache.org. It might also surprise
users to know that 70 other projects are there under the Apache
umbrella.
When it comes to talking
about enterprise-level projects like Tomcat, ActiveMQ, Geronimo,
several of the Apache projects are also relate to Java. If you still
have not checked out apache.org, you should check it out.
Webmin –
For a long time, Webmin
has been around in the market as it is the most widely demanded and
easy-to-install tool for server admin. This tool has proved itself
year after year. Moreover, you can easily make use of this tool to
administer every aspect of your server, comprising MySQL, DNS,
Apache, file sharing, DNS, firewalls and more.
This high-end tool is
extremely powerful, so users of it will be hard-pressed to search for
a GUI better suited to help administer your Linux server.
OpenLDAP –
The all new OpenLDAP is
the best open source iteration of LDAP (lightweight directory access
protocol). While it is extremely powerful and flexible tool and one
of the biggest problems of the system is its difficulty. However, it
is not point-and-click tool, which you will find with Windows Active
Directory. Even there are numerous GUI tools that especially designed
to make the management of OpenLDAP a lot simpler.
Ganglia –
Another server monitoring
tool ‘Ganglia’ that is geared toward high-performance systems
like grids and clusters. The tool is known for making use of XML for
data representation, portable data transport, XDR for compact and
RRDtool for data storage and visualization.
Users will not find any
other tool that is better suited for presenting data and information
of a cluster in a useable and simplified manner. If you want to
administer such things like high-performance systems you would remiss
if you didn’t not look at least take a look at Ganglia as your
go-to cluster monitor.
So, these are the top 7
open source server tools, which you should check-out and make use of
these tools in your day-to-day tasks. In case, if you need an opensource developer support or assistance for your project, you can get
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