ByteCarrot is an open source configuration validation utility for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux operating systems.

It gives administrators, developers, testers and QA specialists possibility to automate:

• health monitoring of operating systems, databases, web servers, network, etc.;
• configuration validation of operating system and applications installed on top of it;
• installation (IQ) / operational qualification (OQ) tests required by U.S. Food and Drug Administration;

Testing capabilities of ByteCarrot are highly extensible. That makes it an ideal solution for many testing scenarios even not mentioned above.