12 Open Source/Commercial Software for Data Center Infrastructure Management

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DCImanager

DCImanager is a platform for managing physical equipment: servers, switches, PDU, routers; and monitoring server and data center resources. It helps to optimize the use of computing power, enhance the efficiency of the IT department, and flexibly transform the infrastructure according to business tasks.

#Monitoring Tools #Product Deployment #Log Management

Thanks to its open-source code, Opendcims should work fine for the companies having their own developers.

#Monitoring Tools #Log Management #DCIM Software 2 social mentions

NOC-PS will cost you a 100€ per year for every 100 dedicated servers bundle. Suits for small-to-middle scale companies.

#Monitoring Tools #Log Management #Product Deployment

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EasyDCIM

EasyDCIM is a paid software mainly oriented on server provisioning. Brings OS and other software installation features and facilitates DC navigation allowing to draw a scheme of racks.

#Monitoring Tools #Log Management #Product Deployment

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Ansible tower

Thanks to that Ansible Tower can perform almost any possible program operation with integrated software and has an amazing statistics collecting module. On the dark side, we have a lack of integration with popular billing systems and pricing.

#DevOps Tools #Continuous Integration #Monitoring Tools

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Puppet

Puppet Enterprise has a free and fully-functional version for 10 computers. A yearly license cost is $120 per device.

#Project Management #No Code #Development 31 social mentions

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NetBox

NetBox is an open-source IP address management and data center infrastructure management platform, which was created by the network team at DigitalOcean to store the information about your networks, virtual machines, inventories, and many more.

#Monitoring Tools #Network Security #Virtualization 21 social mentions

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RackTables

RackTables is an open-source tiny tool for datacenter and server room asset management to keep track of hardware assets, network addresses, space in racks, network configuration, and much much more!

#Monitoring Tools #Log Management #Product Deployment

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Device42

#Monitoring Tools #DCIM Software #ITSM 1 social mentions

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CENTEROS

The source code for Centeros is closed and pricing is available only upon request. A mystery about the pricing complicates determining a target audience of the product, however, it’s possible to make an assumption that CenterOS is designed mostly for larger companies.

#Monitoring Tools #Log Management #Product Deployment

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LinMin

Unlike most of its analogs, LinMin has a well-developed backup system for hard drives, that speeds up an after-crush recovery and facilitates the mass deployments of the servers with the same configuration.

#Monitoring Tools #Log Management #Product Deployment

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Foreman

Foreman is an open-source and perfect life-cycle management application for physical and virtual servers, that give Linux system administrators the capability to easily automate repetitive jobs, rapidly deploy applications, and proactively manage servers, on-premise or in the cloud.

#DevOps Tools #Monitoring Tools #IT Automation 18 social mentions