Alist

Introduction
Alist is a program that collects information about a systems and stores it in a database for users to peruse. The program consists of three parts; a client portion, a daemon that receives data sent from clients and a CGI that displays and lets you search for info. The README file for the software explains more. Take a look at some Screen Shots and the online Demo.

License
Alist is licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License Version 2 as published by the Free Software Foundation.

Requirements
Alist is written entirely in Perl 5. The server portion has been tested on Linux, Solaris, and Mac OS X, and should run without any problems on any modern Unix OS, but may not work on non-Unixlike operating systems, due to calls to fork(). The server needs to have a web server, Perl 5, and the Perl CGI.pm module.

The client portion requires Perl 5, but no modules outside the core distribution are required. There are currently clients for Solaris, Linux, OS X, FreeBSD, and OpenBSD, Windows, HP-UX and Irix. Clients explicitly tested can be found here.

Download
Latest version is 0.9.2 (changelog)

• alist-0.9.2.tgz Current Version. Added sorted display and fixed width fonts to alist.cgi. Some minor bugfixes for alist client. Updated sun_memory script.
• alist-0.9.1.tgz Bug Fixes and feature enhancements added to Linux, HPUX, and Solaris.
• alist-0.9.0.tgz Bug Fixes. Added Domain config options.w
• alist-0.8.9.tgz Scsi support for Linux.
• alist-0.8.8.tgz Many data collection functions added to Linux and Solaris. Also minor bugfixes.
• alist-0.8.5.tgz Some enhancements related to running external programs with Alist client. (1/13/2003)
• alist-0.8.4.tgz Some enhancements to Alist client and bug fixes for Linux client. (1/8/2003)
• alist-0.8.2.tgz Some enhancements and bug fixes for Solaris client. (12/9/2002)
• alist-0.8.tgz Some enhancements to *BSD and OS X. (12/5/2002)
• alist-0.7.5.tgz Some enhancements to Solaris and Linux (Debian). (11/15/2002)
• alist-0.7.tgz Added caching support to alist.cgi. (10/28/2002)
• alist-0.6.5.tgz New configurable configuration system in client for finding commands paths. Some additions to Linux client. (10/20/2002)
• alist-0.6.tgz New Irix and Windows clients and some Bug Fixes. (10/08/2002)
• alist-0.5.1.tgz New HPUX client. Bug Fixes for client/alist client/linux.pm. (10/01/2002)
• alist-0.5.tgz Don't use. Has a syntax error in solaris module. (9/30/2002) (This file is now just a link to alist-0.5.1.tgz )
• alist-0.4.tgz Older Release. New Features/Bug Fixes. (9/16/2002)
• alist-0.3.2.tgz Older Release. Bug Fixes. (8/30/2002)
• alist-0.3.1.tgz Older Release. Bug Fixes. (8/21/2002)
• alist-0.3.tgz Older Release (8/9/2002)
• alist-0.2.tar.gz Older Release (7/5/2002)

Authors
Alist was originallly written by Paul Farrall with many suggestions and comments provided by Anjan Ghose. Please see Credits File for a list of people who have contributed to alist.

Feedback
There are bug pages, forums and a mailing list maintained on SourceForge ( http://sourceforge.net/projects/alist/ ). You can subscribe to the mailing list at this URL https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alist-discuss . If you have any comments, ideas for improvements, patches, etc., you can contact me directly at pfarrall@brains2bytes.com