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Frontend
- Apache HTTP Server v1.3 or v2.x with SSL enabled - while VCL may run under another webserver capable of running PHP code, it has only been tested to work with Apache HTTP Server
- PHP 4 or 5, including these modules:
- php-mcrypt
- php-mysql
- php-xmlrpc
- php-gd
- php-xml
- Dojo Toolkit
- JPGraph
- FCKEditor (optional)
- useful to have the server set up to be able to send debugging emails
Backend
- Perl
- Perl Modules (available from cpan.org)
Backend Scripting & Programming Languages
- Perl - the backend is predominantly driven by Perl code
- DOS/Windows Batch - several batch (.cmd) files perform tasks to configure Windows images
- VBScript - several VBScript (.vbs) files perform tasks to configure Windows images
- INI files - Windows .ini files need to be configured to customize the Windows installation (sysprep.ini, cmdlines.ini)
Images
Windows Image Utilities & Other Files
- Windows Sysprep for each version of Windows being used, available from microsoft.com
- Driver files specific to each version/platform of Windows being used
- spdrvscn.exe utility - scans Windows drivers before an image is saved, available from vernalex.com
- wsname.exe utility - renames computer according to registered DNS name, available from mystuff.clarke.co.nz
- Cygwin with OpenSSH - allows management nodes to control loaded Windows OS on blades, available from cygwin.com
Database
- MySQL
- PHPMyAdmin (optional)
Network
Hardware
Development
- ActiveState Komodo IDE - used to develop several types of files, commercial product
- SlickEdit
- VI/VIM
- WinSCP - used to manually transfer files to/from Windows images and to/from Windows development machines
- PuTTY