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SchoolTool: An Advanced School Management and Information System SchoolTool  is an Open Source, free, web based student information system designed for schools around the world. It is developed and distributed by  Shuttleworth  foundation with strong support for translation, localization and automated deployment and updates via the  Ubuntu Linux installer  and  package management system . SchoolTool is licensed under GPL2 and written in  Python  using the  Zope 3  framework. The main goals of this project are to create a simple turnkey student management and information system, including demographics, gradebook, attendance, calendaring and reporting for primary and secondary schools. Features - Customizable student and teacher demographics and other personal data - Contact management for teachers, students, and their guardians - Teacher grade books - School wide assessment data collection and report card generation - Class attendance and daily participation gr

NAGIOS Installation Guide This is an open source software used for network and infrastructure monitoring. Nagios will monitor servers, switches, applications and services. It alerts the IT Administrator when something went wrong and also alerts back when the issues has been rectified. Though the steps provided here are tested in CentOS 6.4, it may work on RHEL 6.4, Scientific Linux 6.4 and other RPM based distros. In this tutorial i am gonna to use two systems as follows Nagios server: Operating system: CentOS 6.4 IP Address       : 192.168.1.100/24 Nagios client: Operating System: CentOS 6.3 IP Address       : 192.168.1.101/24 First the install the prerequisites. [root@server ~]# yum install -y gd gd-devel httpd php gcc glibc glibc-common By default nagios is not found in CentOS official repository, so add the EPEL repository to install nagios. [root@server ~]# wget http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/i386/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm [root@ser