Executing administration tasks on linux from windows server 2008 [closed]

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What toolkits are out there that will allow me to do the following things from a windows 2008 server to a linux server? In other words I have a windows 2008 server that performs admin tasks using powershell against other windows servers on the domain using WMI and UNC shares. Soon I will be required to do the same automated tasks on linux based servers. I want to have a single windows based server that can perform these admin tasks against both linux and windows using one technology, or two if I must, but definitely only want to have to maintain a single windows based server for this.

Access remote hard drive shares e.g. Currently use c$, d$, ... hidden share on windows based systems Execute commands remotely. e.g. Currently use WMI remote execution on windows based systems Start, pause, stop Tomcat/Apache web servers.

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Instead of installing cygwin and all its dependencies, you can use just PLink.exe with this script : Invoke-SSH (http://www.zerrouki.com/invoke-ssh/)

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Take a look at Cfengine. It works nicely for administering Unix hosts, and also claims to support Windows. You might need some basic Cygwin tools installed, however.