PowerDNS Web Control Panel

Features:

• Get aggregate statistics of all PowerDNS instances, split out by authoritative and recursive servers
• Centrally & individually purge caches of possibly outdated data
• Centrally & individually search log files for troubleshooting purposes
• Monitor patch levels of all servers
• Centrally & individually deploy versions of the software
• Centrally & individually start, restart and stop instances
• View configuration details
• View zone contents

• Python 2.6 or Python 2.7
• PowerDNS Authoritative 3.2-pre (svn 2905+)
• PowerDNS Recursor 3.5-pre (svn 2905+)
• Graphite
• PostgreSQL 8.3 or newer database
• Cron

Flask-based web app.

virtualenv venv-pdnscontrol
. ./venv-pdnscontrol/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt

cp instance/pdnscontrol.conf.example instance/pdnscontrol.conf
editor instance/pdnscontrol.conf
cd instance && python install.py

. ./venv-pdnscontrol/bin/activate
python debug.py

To update built templates, you also need to have a few gems installed.

cd pdnscontrol && bundle
make

Feeds PowerDNS stats into your Graphite installation.

Lives in pdns2graphite. Look at pdns2graphite/README.markdown for documentation.

Runs system-wide commands that affect the pdns binaries/processes. Also proxies the PowerDNS JSON interface for consumption over SSL.

Lives in pdnsmgrd. Look at pdnsmgrd/README.markdown for documentation.

The current code is known to run on these platforms:

• Debian squeeze (Python 2.6)
• Debian sid (Python 2.7)
• Ubuntu Lucid Lynx (Python 2.6)