Put simply, Puppet is a system for automating system administration tasks. To learn more, read our big picture overview of Puppet, or take a deeper look at what Puppet can do with the Puppet Introduction. There's also an about Puppet page which gives the highlights of Puppet's functionality.
SBLIM is an acronym for Standards Based Linux Instrumentation for Manageability. The goal of this project is to provide a complete Open Source implementation of a WBEM-based management solution for Linux. SBLIM is licensed under the CPL.