Sunday, December 28, 2008

Open Courseware Consortium

No Demo sites but a great all around resource.
Home Page = http://ocwconsortium.org/

List of OpenCourseWare sites = http://www.ocwconsortium.org/use/use-dynamic.html

From the OCW website:

"An OpenCourseWare is a free and open digital publication of high quality educational materials, organized as courses. The OpenCourseWare Consortium is a collaboration of more than 200 higher education institutions and associated organizations from around the world creating a broad and deep body of open educational content using a shared model. The mission of the OpenCourseWare Consortium is to advance education and empower people worldwide through opencourseware.

The Goals of the Consortium

  • Extend the reach and impact of opencourseware by encouraging the adoption and adaptation of open educational materials around the world.
  • Foster the development of additional opencourseware projects.
  • Ensure the long-term sustainability of opencourseware projects by identifying ways to improve effectiveness and reduce costs."

Open Source CMS Applications

DEMO SITE = http://www.opensourcecms.com/index.php

A great collection of Open Source CMS applications.
From the site http://www.opensourcecms.com/index.php
"opensourceCMS.com was created with one goal in mind. To give you the opportunity to "try out" some of the best php/mysql based free and open source software systems in the world. You are welcome to be the administrator of any CMS system here, allowing you to decide which system best suits your needs.

The administrator username and password is given for every system and each system is deleted and re-installed every two hours. This allows you to to add and delete content, change the way things look, basically be the admin of any CMS system here without fear of breaking anything."

Friday, December 19, 2008

Server Technology - CDU/PDU

DEMO SITE = Web Interface Demo
»Click here to begin HTML Demo


Telnet Connection Demo Web Interface Demo

To start the Telnet demo click on the link located below. This will load the Telnet application on your system.
»Click here to begin Telnet Demo

Login instructions at http://www.servertech.com/UsingSentry/SentrySwitchedCDUOnlineDemo.aspx

From the Server Technology site http://servertech.com/

"Server Technology, Inc. designs and manufactures power distribution products to reduce downtime and improve data center power management. Products for data center power management include intelligent Cabinet Power Distribution Units (PDU's) that provide power management via IP, branch circuit protection, input current power monitoring, environmental monitoring, serial console port access as well as basic power units and 3 Phase Power units.

Server Tech has a variety of products to meet your data center power needs. We look forward to helping you find a solution to your data center power needs and provide power management.

Server Technology - Sentry Power Manager Products

Sentry Power Manager Products

DEMO SITE = currently points to a private IP, this should change soon

From the Server Technology website http://products.servertech.com/products/sentry-power-manager/

"

The Sentry Power Manger (SPM) is capable of providing:

•A central interface to access multiple network monitored sentry power distribution units.
•Global view of all Sentry devices and ability to view devices based on temperature, humidity, current and device status.
•Control all networked Sentry cabinet power distribution units.
•Control Sentry POPS (Per Outlet Power Sensing) Cabinet PDU on a per outlet basis.
•Power information including kW and kW-hour information for billing, power monitoring, trending and power reports.
•IT equipment power information can be used to measure the efficiency in your data center for PUE and DCIE, power efficiency ratings from the Green Grid.
•ODBC compliant database permits power and additional information to be exported to a Building Management System (BMS).
•Managing and monitoring alarm conditions.
•Power consumption for capacity planning.
•Maximize each power circuit by realizing current power being drawn."

Moodle - Moodle is a course management system (CMS)

DEMO SITE = http://demo.moodle.org/

From the Moodle site http://moodle.org/

"Moodle is a course management system (CMS) - a free, Open Source software package designed using sound pedagogical principles, to help educators create effective online learning communities. You can download and use it on any computer you have handy (including webhosts), yet it can scale from a single-teacher site to a University with 200,000 students. This site itself is created using Moodle, so check out the Moodle Demonstration Courses or read the latest Moodle Buzz."

Zabbix - open source distributed monitoring solution

DEMO SITE = http://www.muck.net/?page_id=3

From the Zabbix site http://www.zabbix.com/

"ZABBIX is an enterprise-class open source distributed monitoring solution.

New in ZABBIX 1.6

  • Escalations and repeated notifications
  • Proxy based distributed monitoring
  • Support of IPv6
  • Performance improvements
  • Dashboard
  • Data buffering on agent side
  • More efficient communications
  • and more..."

NAV - Network Administration Visualized

Not a Demo Site but one of my favorite tools

From http://metanav.uninett.no/
"Network Administration Visualized is an advanced software suite to monitor large computer networks. It automatically discovers network topology, monitors network load and outages, and can send alerts on network events by e-mail and SMS, allowing for flexible configuration of alert profiles.

NAV was developed at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). Development started in 1999. It originated as a collection of scripts used internally at NTNU's ITEA Network group. In 2001 UNINETT became interested in its development, and has since been funding NAV development at NTNU on behalf of all universities and colleges in Norway. In 2006 the development of NAV was moved from NTNU to UNINETT.

NAV is free, available under the GNU GPLv2 license. The latest stable version of NAV is 3.4.4"