[ Linux Today reader Robert Osterlund
writes: ]
“PIKT, an innovative new paradigm for administering
heterogeneous networked workstations, is a multi-functional tool
for monitoring systems, reporting and fixing problems, and managing
system configurations. PIKT is quickly gathering potential as
a serious security management system. PIKT comprises an embedded
scripting language with unique, labor-saving features; a
sophisticated script (and system config file) preprocessor,
scheduler, and installer; and other useful tools. Like a Swiss Army
Knife, PIKT is a category buster with many, many different uses
limited only by your ingenuity and imagination.
Hightlights of v1.8.0: Added several security enhancements:
random timing values for alert scheduling; the $checksum() family
of functions for computing BSD, SysV, POSIX, MD4 & MD5
checksums; several new file attribute functions; the #random()
function; tcp_only mode for client-server communications. Made a
number of other fixes and improvements.
PIKT is distributed under the GNU General Public License.
Available now for GNU/Linux, AIX, FreeBSD, HP-UX, IRIX, Solaris,
and SunOS. For more info, and complete source code, documentation,
and data files, please visit the PIKT Web site at: http://pikt.uchicago.edu/pikt.”