Today we bring a collection of top 10 open-source admin tool that will give you superior functionality and robust platform to carry on with your everyday admin related tasks. Admin tools are used for various purposes it can be used for scheduling a test for your computer memory, format hard drives, changes OS, configuration of tools and many such important functions. Below are list of 10 important open source admin tools. 

 

1. Process Hacker: This Admin tool for Windows offers you enhanced functionality and allows you to carry out various functions. It helps you to see all your network connections, open/listening ports, processes that are connected. By clicking the process tab you can see a tree view of parent-child relationships. This is a ideal tool for developer by which they can manage real and virtual memory, scan memory, and dump memory content for analysis.

 

2. Adminer: Adminer comes with simple UI and offer a great alternative to phpMyAdmin. It is primarily single php file which is easy to install.  Adminer can work with  MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Microsoft SQL Server, and Oracle Database on the other hand phpMyAdmin supports only MySQL. Adminer also works with older version of MySQL and PHP as well. It has features like foreign keys, grouping Select results, sorting results etc.

 

3. Postfix Admin: Postfix Admin offers a simple and clean UI to help with management of a Postfix mail server. In addition to that Postfix Admin also lets you create an autoresponder vacation message, view server logs, and add a new domain.

 

4. phpSysInfo: phpSysInfo is another good open-source admin tool, it allows you to fetch data from /proc file system and lay it on webpage. It shows details about server, RAM and CPU utilization, drives that attached, available space in the disk, hard drive info and other similar yet very important information. Admins who are busy there is even an Android client app for phpSysInfo.

 

5. ISPconfig: This ISPconfig admin tool offers responsive interface for system admin as it supports advanced options like firewalling, e-mail spam filter and whitelist.  ISPConfig can handle most the Linux applications, it also supports IPv6, the Apache and Nginx Web servers, Mailman mailing list server and virtualization solution OpenVZ.

 

6. Artica: This admin tool come good looking control panel, you can use it to install and configure various applications Postfix mail server with all the firewall, antispam, and antivirus trimmings. This tool saves lot of time system admin, Artica has helped millions of small and medium business by offering them robust admin tool who can afford dedicated admin.

 

7. RackTables: If you have a datacenter with rack server, switches and router, then RackTable admin tool helps you keep a database of each device in each of your racks and displays them in either a list format or a graphical representation of the racks. It also helps you to set up multiple users with various level of permission. It can also be used for maintaining IP address and firewall rules.

 

8. ISP Control Panel: This admin tool is especially meant for running hosting services. It comes with separate control panel for ISP admins, service reseller and end customer. ISP control offers all the important services that you would except from web hosting company like Sender Policy Framework records, bandwidth usage tracking, and spam filtering with graylisting functionality etc.

 

9. UNetbootin: If you want to install Linux on to a thumb drive then UNetbootin is perfect for you. You can use UNetbootin thumb drive to boot into Linux or to install Linux as a dual boot option on a Windows PC.

 

10. Swiss File Knife: This robust admin tool offers basic functions like listings, searches, and deletions, and can report on disk space, remove spaces from file names, and mirror files and directories. SFK also comes with handy text filtering capabilities like converting Windows line feeds to Unix newlines etc.