As firm believers in the open source movement, Tangent consultants are encouraged to work on projects that they feel can be useful to both Tangent and our customers. Open source development allows developers to exercise their creative energy and extend their knowledge at the same time. Several of the projects we are currently working on are listed here. If you have any questions please feel free to contact us.

Pulpmill: A PERL and SSH/SCP based utility for automated rotation, compression, and archiving of UNIX-based system logs. A configuration file is used to specify actions to perform on log files of choice. Archiving to a remote system is possible through secure copy (scp) and requires an RSA key to be generated for SSH on each client system. Pulpmill has been implemented in several enterprise production environments.

SQL reporting tool: A PERL based highly configurable CGI which provides a simple and easily deployed method for pulling data from a database through a web front end. SQL queries are simply copied to a directory for execution by a web server. Users are provided a drop down list of the queries available for execution. Header and footer files can be provided to customize a reports look to conform with a company-defined standard.

Custom Cluster for Solaris: A base set of shell scripts and monitoring tools for building and running a fail-over cluster on Solaris. It is a great interim solution while you or your system admins are learning the fundamentals of Sun or Veritas Cluster.

PackageBuilder A simple shell script and foundation for building Solaris packages.

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