Software & Tools

A living list of useful tools. Write reviews, ask questions and add to the list! If you Send additions to info@coisug.info

Productivity Tools

Launchy (windows) – Great little open source app to reduce clicking, good for those that would like a quasi command line interface in windows 

Xobni (windows/outlook) – Useful Outlook powertool designed to leverage social networking within your email/communications world, very cool indeed.

Ticket System

Request Tracker

Project Management

dotProject

Network Tools

Putty

ntop

Snort- Bleeding snort rules

nmap

angry ip scanner

iptraf

Monitoring

Nagios

Zabbix

Network and Systems Trending (SNMP)

MRTG

RRDtool

PRTG

Cacti

Zabbix

Syslog and Event Monitoring

Syslogd – *nix syslog daemon (see /etc/syslog.cof) or man syslog

NTSyslog – NT daemon for converting windows events to syslog format and sending to syslog server

Splunk – Event consolidation, reporting, and alerting (web based, requires LAMP)

EventReader 2 – Windows Event Log monitoring and consolidation (compare windows event logs in a visual manner)

EventID.net – The BEST place to research Windows Event log errors

VOIP

Asterisk – PBX

Trixbox – PBX

ViaTalk - VOIP Service Provider

X-Lite – Soft phone

Virtual Server

VMware

Microsoft Virtual Server

Anti-Spyware

Webroot

Anti-Virus

AVG

Avast

Clam Anti-Virus

Screen Capture

Fastone Capture

Document Tools

Open Office – M$ Office Alternative

CutePDF - Print out documents to PDF (Can also be used in Terminal Services)

Terminal Services Tools

UniPrint – Local printing out of Terminal Services Environment (server/client install) $

Remote Management

Dameware

Remote PC Access

VNCLogmein