Dependencies

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)
  • http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/M/MA/MARKOV/MailTools-2.04.tar.gz
  • http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/T/TM/TMTM/Class-Data-Inheritable-0.08.tar.gz
  • http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/D/DR/DROLSKY/Devel-StackTrace-1.20.tar.gz
  • http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/D/DR/DROLSKY/Exception-Class-1.26.tar.gz
  • http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/J/JD/JDHEDDEN/Object-InsideOut-3.52.tar.gz
  • http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/K/KW/KWILLIAMS/Module-Build-0.30.tar.gz
  • http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/A/AG/AGROLMS/GSSAPI-0.26.tar.gz
  • http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/G/GB/GBARR/Authen-SASL-2.12.tar.gz
  • http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/R/RE/REATMON/XML-Stream-1.22.tar.gz
  • http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/H/HA/HACKER/Net-XMPP-1.02.tar.gz
  • http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/R/RE/REATMON/Net-Jabber-2.0.tar.gz

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
• Firebug plugin for Firefox
• WinSCP - used to manually transfer files to/from Windows images and to/from Windows development machines
• PuTTY