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Do you have multiple servers and just can’t find the time to monitor and manage each and ever one of them? Do you want to see what software is installed or need some usage statistics for load balancing? Most administrators spend a lot of time focusing on these problems. This is especially the case for the lone gunmen assigned to an office filled with webservers, database servers, mail servers, and the list goes on.

Andutteye aims to ease the tediousness of these tasks by giving administrators a variety of tools to help manage their servers from a single location. The product offers a very clean interface with features like powerful statistic tools, plugin capabilities, and software inventory all through a centralized point.

How does it work? To start, each server that needs to be monitored has to have the Andutteye agent installed. The agent is written in perl so it is portable and, in the nature of opensource, comes with a configuration file for customization. Once set up, this agent will start to transfer the log information back to the centralized point (the Andutteye server). For those worried about secure transmission of their syslogs, all data sent from the agent is encrypted using ssl.

At the server we can see the list of managed domains and view each domain’s resource usage statistics. Under domains you can pick out particular system and see information like its CPU usage, management information, and changelogs.

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Care was taken to the interface so if you don’t happen to like the default theme you can change it easily with a new styles sheet. Andutteye really offers what most administrators need from a centralized management server: quick easy access to logs and maintenance utilities. It can be modified to be as simple as you need, or for the creative and adventurous ones, you can even write your own custom plugins with the provided API.

So far the site lists support for servers with Linux, Unix,and MacOSX installed. Check it out, and let us know what you think.