System Administrator Documentation¶

This page provides FOSSology system administration documentation. This documentation is intended for anyone who is installing, maintaining, or upgrading a FOSSology system. This means that you have root privileges on your FOSSology server.

Download¶

• Supported Operating Systems
• Download FOSSology packages for Debian, RHEL, Ubuntu and Fedora distros
• Download FOSSology source from SourceForge.net

Installation¶

• System Configuration and tuning for all installations
• Package Install/Upgrade to v2.2
• Package Install/Upgrade to v2.1
• Package Install/Upgrade to v2.0

Maintenance and Administration¶

• FOSSology components and users
• Starting and stopping the FOSSology scheduler
• File Locations - Description of the default locations of many FOSSology system resources
• Session timeouts
• Enabling Siteminder Authentication
• Known Security Risks - Overview of potential threats with FOSSology
• Enable FOSSology with SELinux - Tips for using FOSSology in a security enable linux environment
• Troubleshooting
• FOSSology README file (from our latest version) in Subversion source code repository
• Package Structure

Basement¶

• rfo disk discussion A discussion of disk optimization for the repo.fossology.org multi-system cluster
• NFS performance investigation NFS performance results and recommendations

See also: FOSSology Admin Documentation, User Documentation and Developer Documentation pages for more details on these topics.