List of systems management systems

! rowspan="2" | Creator

! rowspan="2" | Open source

! colspan="5" | FCAPS functions

! rowspan="2" | Management technologies

! C

! A

! P

! S

| Red Hat, Ansible Inc. (formerly)

| {{yes}}

| ?

| ?

| ?

| ?

| ?

| Agentless, SSH

| Apple

| {{no}}

| ?

| {{yes}}

| ?

| ?

| ?

| Proprietary, SSH

| Narayan Desai et al.

| {{yes}}

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| XML-RPC

| Mark Burgess et al.

| {{yes}}

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| Proprietary

| Progress Software (acquired Chef)

| {{yes}}

| ?

| {{Yes}}

| ?

| ?

| ?

| Client/Server (Agents), Ruby (client) and Ruby / Erlang (server), SSH

|IXP Data

| {{No}}

| {{No}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{No}}

| {{Yes}}

| SNMP and WMI

| Paul Kelly and Ohad Levy

| {{yes}}

| ?

| ?

| ?

| ?

| ?

| ?

| Steve Traugott et al.

| {{yes}}

| ?

| ?

| ?

| ?

| ?

| ?

| JumpSoft

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

| SNMP, WMI, JMX, SSH, XML, REST, SOAP

| KACE

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| SNMP, WMI, and PXE

| LANrev

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

|

| Canonical Ltd.

| ?

| ?

| ?

| ?

| ?

| ?

|

| Paul Anderson et al.

| {{yes}}

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| XML over HTTP

| Ethan Galstad

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

| {{No}}

| SNMP, WMI (via Addon), JMX

| OpenNMS Group

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| {{no}}

| SNMP

| Hewlett-Packard

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| {{no}}

| SNMP, WMI, and others

| uib gmbh

| {{yes}}

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| PXE, WMI, JSON over HTTPS

| Oracle Corporation

| {{no}}

| ?

| ?

| ?

| ?

| ?

| ?

| Oracle Corporation

| {{no}}

| ?

| ?

| ?

| ?

| ?

| ?

| Puppet Labs

| {{yes}}

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| ?

| Rafael Angel García Leiva et al.

| {{yes}}

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| XML (?) over HTTP, SOAP

| SaltStack

| {{yes}}

| ?

| ?

| ?

| ?

| ?

| ssh, Python

| Red Hat

| ?

| ?

| ?

| ?

| ?

| ?

| ?

| Red Hat

| {{yes}}

| ?

| {{yes}}

| ?

| ?

| {{yes}}

| XML-RPC

| Microsoft

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| WMI, SNMP

| TeamQuest Corporation

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

| {{no}}

| ?

| CA, Inc.

| {{no}}

| ?

| ?

| ?

| ?

| ?

| ?

| Zabbix LLC

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| {{no}}

| SNMP, TCP and ICMP checks, IPMI, JMX, Telnet and SSH

| Zenoss Inc.

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| {{no}}

| SNMP, WMI, XML-RPC, SSH

| Novell

| {{no}}

| ?

| {{yes}}

| ?

| ?

| {{yes}}

| ?