These are the massive and useful collections of the important tools/software or command-line utility that might be useful for server administrators. If you are a system administrator or system engineer then you might need the help of tools to monitor and manage the servers.

Best List Of Free IPAM Tools For IP Address Management

IP Address Tracker: Free IPAM tool to scan, track, and manage IP addresses.

phpIPAM: phpIPM is an open-source web  IP address management tool for network administrators.

GestioIP: GestioIP is also a web-based IP address management software.  It is also integrated with Microsoft DNS by securing dynamic DNS updates with full IPv4/IPv6 support.

NiPaP – Neat Address Planner:  It is one of the best open-source IPAM software. NIPAP is a sleek, intuitive, and powerful IP address management system built to efficiently handle large amounts of IP addresses. It has native support of IPv6.

IP Plan: IPplan is a web-based, multilingual, IP address management, DNS, and tracking tool based on PHP 4, simplifying the administration of your IP address space.

Server Monitoring Tools For Linux In 2022

Cacti: Open-source web-based network monitoring tool.

Icigna: Open-source computer system and network monitoring application.

GoAccess is an open-source tool that runs in a terminal in *nix systems or via a browser. It is a  real-time web log analyzer and interactive viewer.

Nagios Core: Nagios Core, is a free and open-source computer-software application that offers monitoring and alerting services for servers, switches, applications, and services.

Zabbix: Zabbix is an enterprise-class open-source monitoring software tool.

SmokePing: It is loaded with plenty of features like Interactive graph explorer, a Wide range of latency measurement plugins, Live Latency Charts with the most ‘interesting’ graphs, and many more.

MultiTail:  It allows you to monitor log files and command output in multiple windows in a terminal. It uses colors to display the logfiles which makes them easy to read for users.

CPUlimit: It is a small tool that monitors and then limits the CPU usage of a process. cpulimit can be used to prevent a process from running for more than a specified time ratio.

Justniffer is a network protocol analyzer. It captures network traffic and produces logs. It gives you the option to choose whether to collect low-level data or high-level data with this sniffer.

Shinken: It is a Nagios-compatible monitoring framework, written in Python, and can be used to monitor your servers and applications.

top:  top is a processing activity monitoring command for Linux. It gives you a real-time view of a running system.

Run the following command in Linux to execute the top command:

sudo top

vmstat: The vmstat command lets you know about processes, memory, traps, paging, block IO, and CPU activity.

sudo vmstat

ps: Using ps command will help you to get a snapshot of the current processes. ps similar to the top command it provides you the more information.

sudo ps

pmap: The pmap command in Linux displays the memory usage map of a process or multiple processes. Monitors the process memory usage on Linux. We need process id which we can get from ps or top command:

sudo pmap PID

netstat: netstat is a Linux network and statistics monitoring tool. It is a built-in tool that is used to list out the TCP network connections, routing tables, and a number of network interfaces in the system.

sudo netstat

iptraf: iptraf command can be used to gather real-time network statistics on the Linux system. You can easily figure out the TCP connection packet and byte count, TCP/UDP traffic breakdowns, interface statistics and activity indicators, and station packet and byte count with this command.

sudo iptraf

iostat: This command is used for monitoring system input and system output. It helps to monitor Linux’s average CPU load and disk activity.

sudo iostat

sar: SAR or System Activity Report is a Unix System V-derived system monitor command which is used to check CPU activity, memory/paging, network, interrupts, device load, and swap space utilization.

mpstat: It is used to Monitor multiprocessor usage on Linux.

sudo mpstat

tcpdump: tcpdump is a common packet analyzer. tcpdump allows the user to display TCP/IP and other packets that are being transmitted or received over a network.

iotop: iotop is a Linux I/O monitoring tool. iotop tool is based on Python.

sudo iotop

htop: htop is similar to the top command. It is used to view the interactive process. It is a third-party application.

sudo htop

atop: atop is an interactive monitor tool to view the load on your Linux system, i.e. CPU, memory, disk, and network.

iftop: iftop is a real-time network monitoring tool. It can be used to monitor network bandwidth.

sudo iftop

nmon: nmon is short for Nigel’s performance Monitor for Linux on POWER. It displays and records local system information.

glances: glances is an open-source cross-platform monitoring tool for Linux-based operating systems. It is written in python. glances can be used to monitor CPU, Network Interfaces, Load Average, Memory, Disk I/O, Processes, and many more.

Nload : Nload is a command-line tool that is mainly used to monitor the network throughput.  The output of this tool can be seen using two graphs, one for incoming and one for the outgoing network.

yum install nload

or

sudo apt-get install nload

Collectd: collectd is a daemon that collects system and application performance metrics periodically. This tool gathers metrics from various sources which can be used to monitor systems and find possible bottlenecks.

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A NAS (Network Attached Storage) server is a set of hardware (dedicated storage device) that allows you to store, share, and access data over a network. NAS allows other users to access the stored data through the secured network.

Best Free NAS Software In 2024

List Of Best Free NAS Software For Linux

1. TrueNAS

Previously known as a FreeNAS, TrueNAS is one of the most popular free and open-source NAS Software and it is based on the FreeBSD operating system.  It supports Windows sharing SMB/CIFS, NFS, FTP, iSCSI, and Apple file shares (AFP).

2. Rockstor

Rockstor is a Linux Btrfs NAS Server that allows you to access the centralized storage over the NAS. Rockstor 4 is “Built on openSUSE” but Rockstor is built on CentOS. You can easily access data from desktops, laptops, or mobile from anywhere.

3. openmediavault

openmediavault is based on Debian Linux. openmediavault has features like like SSH, (S)FTP, SMB/CIFS, RSync, and many more. It is one of the popular NAS tools.

4. Openfiler

Openfiler is a  file-based Network Attached Storage with block-based Storage Area Networking functionality. It is one of the best-developed NAS software for Linux users with features like  CIFS and NFS. 

5. NAS4Free / XigmaNAS

NAS4Free or XigmaNAS is an Open Source Storage NAS and it is based on FreeBSD. Previously known as a NAS4Free, XigmaNAS supports sharing across Windows, Apple, and UNIX-like systems.

6. Amahi

Amahi is a headless Linux media server and can be used as a file storage server for a lightweight work job.  Amahi supports disk pooling, and file-sharing and also supports file system protocols like ext4 and XFS.

7. PetaSAN

PetaSAN is an open-source Scale-Out SAN solution that uses modern cloud-based technologies to provide elasticity and agility. It is based on the Ceph storage engine, an open-source SDS cloud storage solution.

8. Universal Media Server

The Java-based GPL-licensed Universal Media Server is cross-platform compatible and runs on Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows. You can use a universal media server to stream video, audio, or images to any DLNA-compatible device.

9. OwnTone

OwnTone is a Linux/FreeBSD-based media server that supports DAAP (iTunes), MPD (Music Player Daemon), and RSP (Roku) media servers. OwnTone supports AirPlay devices/speakers, Apple Remote (and compatibles), MPD clients, Chromecast, network streaming, internet radio, Spotify, and LastFM.

OwnTone was previously called forked-daapd. Forked-daapd was a rewrite of mt-daapd.

List Of Best Free NAS Software For Windows In 2024

1 . AllMediaServer

ALLMediaServer is a very easy-to-use Media Server. You can use AllMediaServer to watch movies, listen to music, or view photos from your computer on your TV, smartphone, Xbox, etc.

2. Firefly formerly mt-daapd

Firefly Media Server formerly known as an mt-daapd is an open-source audio media server (or daemon) that serves media files using Roku Server Protocol (RSP) and Digital Audio Access Protocol (DAAP).

Note: Firefly Media Server is not under active development

3. LXiMedia

LXiMedia is a DLNA-compatible media server. It is designed for serving media. It has amazing media features like

• Supports DVD and High Definition resolutions (720p and 1080p).
• Transcoding.
• Stereo and multi-channel (5.1 surround) audio.
• DVD title playback.
• High-quality subtitle overlay, support for embedded subtitles, and SRT subtitle files.
• Support for IMDb movie titles and descriptions.

4. ReadyMedia

ReadyMedia or formerly known as MiniDLNA is a simple media server software that is fully compliant with DLNA/UPnP-AV clients. ReadyMedia was originally developed by a NETGEAR employee.

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You can monitor the performance of internet services like HTTPS, DNS server, FTP server, SSL/TLS certificate, SMTP server, POP server, URLs, REST APIs, SOAP web service. You can also monitor the performance or the various aspect of your application like you can know the backend status of your applications running on various platforms like Ruby, .NET, Java, Node.js, and PHP.

24×7: All-in-One Monitoring Solution For Tech Administrator

List of tools in 24×7 all in one monitoring solutions:

1. Website Availability Monitoring
2. REST API Monitoring
3. SOAP Monitoring
4. Web Application Monitoring
5. SSL Certificate Monitoring
6. FTP Monitoring
7. Website Monitoring
8. Real User Monitoring
9. Web Page Speed Monitoring
10. Synthetic Monitoring
11. Monitoring Locations
12. Mail Server Monitoring
13. DNS Monitoring
14. Monitor Internal Network
15. Hosted Status Pages

1. Nutanix Monitoring
2. Windows Monitoring
3. Linux Monitoring
4. Server Monitoring
5. Site24x7 Plugins
6. IIS Monitoring
7. SQL Monitoring
8. MS Exchange Server
9. StatsD Metrics Monitoring
10. File and Directory Monitoring
11. Docker Monitoring
12. Kubernetes Monitoring
13. IT Automation
14. Cron Monitoring

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