**Ortro** is meant to be an open source framework for enterprise scheduling and monitoring. 

The aim is to create a web application that allows you:
  * **auto discovery of the hosts in your network;**
  * **easily assemble jobs to perform workflows;**
  * schedule your jobs in a centralized way;
  * archive jobs result;
  * create jobs/workflows for system monitoring; 
  * create jobs/workflows application monitoring;
  * run existing scripts on remote hosts in secure way using ssh;
  * create simple reports using query from db's (html,txt,csv,xls) and send it by mail;
  * tests your web application;
  * send a notification on job results.
  * import/export utility.




====== Latest News ======

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**Nov 20, 2008** \\
[[plugins:service_check|TCP Service Check]] v1.2.3 released. \\
Multiple check at once is allowed such us the capability to select the most commonly used service to check directly from a default list.
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**Oct 30, 2008** \\
Translations has been moved on [[https://translations.launchpad.net/ortro|Launchpad]].\\
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**Sep 08, 2008** \\
[[plugins:file_watch|File Watch]] Plugin added. \\
Enables monitoring of the specified file for lines containing a match to the given PATTERN.
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**Jul 03, 2008** \\
Ortro 1.3.2a released. \\
This is a bug fixing release.\\
The upgrade procedure was updated and a bug on the deleting shared host was fixed.\\
Please see the [[changelog|changelog]] for a detailed list of bugfixes and improvements.\\
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**Jul 02, 2008** \\
Ortro 1.3.2 released. \\
This version includes some enhancements and fixes. \\
Now the Pear::Auth package is used for authentication and the timeout for long running jobs wad added.\\
The memory free and mysql database table check plugins were added.\\
In addition the installer was improved and FCKeditor library was updated.\\
Please see the [[changelog|changelog]] for a detailed list of bugfixes and improvements.\\
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**Jun 24, 2008** \\
[[plugins:ftp_upload|FTP Upload]] Plugin updated. \\
[[http://dev.ortro.net/ticket/80|#80]] Add get function, put is the default if not set (lucke patch). 
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**Jun 19, 2008** \\
[[plugins:mysql_table_check|Mysql Table Check]] Plugin added. \\
Runs a 'CHECK TABLE' command against each table in the database. 
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**Jun 18, 2008** \\
[[plugins:system_mem_free|Memory free]] Plugin added. \\
Check the amount of the free memory (percentage), and compares to a threshold value.
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**Jun 13, 2008** \\
[[plugins:cpu_idle|CPU Idle Time]] Plugin updated. \\
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**Jun 06, 2008** \\
[[plugins:database_execute_sql_from_file|Execute SQL from file]] Plugin available. \\
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====== Features ======
Ortro does not require installation of software/daemon on the remote hosts, it communicates with hosts using ssh or dbms connection.\\
It's extensible, every compontent is seen like a plug-in (php classes loaded dinamically).

===== Plugin categories =====
  * [[plugins#database|Database]]
  * [[plugins#file|File]]
  * [[plugins#general|General]]
  * [[plugins#system|System]]
  * [[plugins#www|WWW]]

===== Notification =====
  * Mail
  * SMS (using ftp interface)
  * Tibco RendezVous Message
  * Tivoli postemsg
  * Jabber

===== Auto discovery of hosts =====
Scan your network and add automatically the discovered hosts in a specified System.\\
It is built on top of the Pear [[http://pear.php.net/package/Net_Nmap/|Net_Nmap]] library and requires a [[http://nmap.org/|Nmap]] installation on your system.

===== Authentication =====
  * Users, groups and roles management
  * DB Authentication
  * LDAP Authentication
  * Identity Management 

====== Feedback ======
We would like to get your feedback on how we can make the Ortro application better.\\
Please leave a message in the [[http://sourceforge.net/forum/?group_id=173809|forum]] or send us an email if you have comments on how we can improve the existing features, or if you have ideas of new features we should add to make the software more useful.\\
Your feedback will help us make future versions of Ortro even better.\\
Thanks in advance for your help, we really appreciate your comments.\\

====== Copyright ======
2006-2008 © [[lucor@ortro.net|Luca Corbo]]

Ortro is an OpenSource project released under the [[http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html|GNU GPL]] Version 2, it's written in   [[http://www.php.net|PHP]] and runs on Linux, BSD, Solaris and other *NIX's, BeOS, OS/2... platforms

The [[ortro-logo.png|Ortro logo]] was created by Lia Rotunno for the Ortro Project.