Flashcards: System administration

Conky is a free software system monitor for the X Window System.

The USENIX Association is the Advanced Computing Systems Association.

Cygwin (/ˈsɪɡwɪn/ SIG-win) is a Unix-like environment and command-line interface for Microsoft Windows.

CPU-Z is a freeware system profiling and monitoring application for Microsoft Windows and Android that detects the central processing unit, RAM, motherboard chipset, and other hardware features of a modern personal computer, and Android smart phone, and presents the information in one window (in PC version), or by opening the application (in smart phone version).

top (table of processes) is a task manager program found in many Unix-like operating systems.

sudo (/ˈsuːduː/ or /ˈsuːdoʊ/) is a program for Unix-like computer operating systems that allows users to run programs with the security privileges of another user, by default the superuser.

The Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) is a set of computer interface specifications for an autonomous computer subsystem that provides management and monitoring capabilities independently of the host system's CPU, firmware (BIOS or UEFI) and operating system.

OpenVAS (Open Vulnerability Assessment System, the name of the fork originally known as GNessUs)is a framework of several services and tools offering a vulnerability scanning and vulnerability management solution.

A terminal server (also referred to as a serial server or console server network access server) enables organizations to connect devices with an RS-232, RS-422 or RS-485 serial interface to a local area network (LAN).

High availability is a characteristic of a system, which aims to ensure an agreed level of operational performance, usually uptime, for a higher than normal period.

Novell ZENworks, a suite of software products developed and maintained by Novell, Inc.

System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM, also known as ConfigMgr), formerly Systems Management Server (SMS) is a systems management software product developed by Microsoft for managing large groups of computers running Windows NT, Windows Embedded, OS X, Linux or UNIX, as well as Windows Phone, Symbian, iOS and Android mobile operating systems.

Net-SNMP is a suite of software for using and deploying the SNMP protocol (v1, v2c and v3 and the AgentX subagent protocol).

Nessus is a proprietary comprehensive vulnerability scanner which is developed by Tenable Network Security.

The tambourine is a musical instrument in the percussion family consisting of a frame, often of wood or plastic, with pairs of small metal jingles, called "zils".

(For hTop, the homotopy category of topological spaces, see Homotopy category.) htop is an interactive system-monitor process-viewer.

Ganglia is a scalable, distributed monitoring tool for high-performance computing systems, clusters and networks.

Open-AudIT is a network auditing application.

Process Monitor is a free tool from Windows Sysinternals, part of the Microsoft TechNet website.

Process Lasso is a process priority optimizer for Windows developed by Jeremy Collake of Bitsum LLC.

Task managers can display currently running services (processes) as well as those that were stopped.

Nagios /ˈnɑːɡiːoʊs/, now known as Nagios Core, is a free and open source computer-software application that monitors systems, networks and infrastructure.

System Administrator Appreciation Day, also known as Sysadmin Day, SysAdminDay, or Sysmas, is an annual event created by system administrator Ted Kekatos.

HP OpenView is the former name for a Hewlett Packard product family that consisted of network and systems management products.

ConEmu (short for Console Emulator) is a free and open-source tabbed terminal emulator for Windows.

Rsyslog is an open-source software utility used on UNIX and Unix-like computer systems for forwarding log messages in an IP network.

The League of Professional System Administrators (LOPSA), founded in 2004, is a professional association for IT Administrators.

TeamQuest Corporation, is a computer software company specializing in Systems management, Performance management and Capacity planning software for computer servers.

EMCO Remote Installer is a software distribution tool for Windows.

NMIS (acronym for Network Management Information System) is an open source network management system that was first released in 1998.

Logentries is a software as a service provider for log management and intelligence, based in Boston, Massachusetts and Dublin, Ireland.

Sysload Software, was a computer software company specializing in systems measurement, performance and capacity management solutions for servers and data centers, based in Créteil, France.

PA Server Monitor is a server monitoring and network monitoring software application, developed by Power Admin LLC.

Zyrion is a company that develops and sells network management software called Traverse using the phrase business service management (BSM).

Ipswitch is an IT management software developer for small and medium sized businesses.

Synctool is an open source configuration management system, written by Walter de Jong, systems expert at SURFsara.

syslog-ng is an open source implementation of the syslog protocol for Unix and Unix-like systems.

PacketTrap is a provider of network management and traffic analysis software for midsize companies.

Panorama9 is a cloud-based service within enterprise Network management.

SolarWinds Inc. is a company which develops enterprise information technology (IT) infrastructure management software.

ATEN International Co.

Nimsoft was an independent company software vendor that offered information technology (IT) monitoring and service desk products and services.

Loggly is a cloud-based log management and analytics service provider based in San Francisco, California.

Dell KACE is a company that specializes in computer appliances for systems management of information technology equipment.

Omnitracker is a proprietary business process platform developed by Omninet GmbH in Germany.

Threat Stack is a provider of cloud security management and compliance solutions delivered using a Software as a service (SaaS) model.

OpenNMS is a free and open-source enterprise grade network monitoring and network management platform.

Apache Flume is a distributed, reliable, and available service for efficiently collecting, aggregating, and moving large amounts of log data.

Fluentd is a cross platform open source data collection solution originally developed at Treasure Data.

Open iT, Inc. is an independent software vendor that specializes in metering, analyzing, and optimizing usage of critical IT assets.

Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center (formerly Sun Ops Center) is a data center automation tool that simplifies discovery and management of physical and virtualized assets.

Opsi (open PC server integration) is a software distribution and management system for Microsoft Windows clients, based on GNU/Linux servers.

Metafor Software is an anomaly detection and predictive analytics company based in Vancouver, British Columbia.

The Reprise License Manager (RLM) is the software licensing toolkit developed and marketed by Reprise Software, providing on-premises and cloud-based license management, license enforcement and product activation solutions for publishers of commercial software applications.

LISA is the USENIX special interest group for system administrators.

FlexNet Publisher (formerly known as FLEXlm) is a software license manager from Flexera Software which implements license management and is intended to be used in corporate environments to provide floating licenses to multiple end users of computer software.

CFEngine is an open source configuration management system, written by Mark Burgess.

LogLogic is a technology company that specializes in Security Management, Compliance Reporting, and IT Operations products.

Log monitors are a type of software that monitor log files.

LOGINventory is an agentless network inventory tool written by Schmidt's LOGIN GmbH.

HEAT LANrev (formerly Absolute Manage) is systems lifecycle management software used by system administrators to automate IT administration tasks.

HP OpenCall is an extensive portfolio of network and telephony products offered by the HP Software Division of technology company HP.

iftop is a command-line system monitor tool that produces a frequently-updated list of network connections.

Visionic is a network management computer system and network monitoring software application produced by Intorel.

ScienceLogic is a software and service vendor.