ASF Incubation Disclaimer: Apache VCL is an effort undergoing incubation at the Apache Software Foundation (ASF), sponsored by the Apache Incubator PMC. Incubation is required of all newly accepted projects until a further review indicates that the infrastructure, communications, and decision making process have stabilized in a manner consistent with other successful ASF projects. While incubation status is not necessarily a reflection of the completeness or stability of the code, it does indicate that the project has yet to be fully endorsed by the ASF. Please see the INSTALLATION file or the Install guide at the apache vcl site. (https://cwiki.apache.org/VCL/new-install.html) This file is only a list of requirements, which are also stated in the Install guide. System Requirements: Web Frontend: Apache HTTP Server v1.3 or v2.x with SSL enabled php 5.0 or later php modules (some of these may be built in for your distro): - php-gd - php-json - php-mcrypt - php-mysql - php-openssl - php-sysvsem - php-xml - php-xmlrpc - php-ldap (if you will be using ldap authentication) libmcrypt and mcrypt libraries installed for php-mcrypt Database: MySQL 5.0 or later Management Node Backend: OS - tested on CentOS 5, RedHat Advanced Server 4 and 5 Packages: - expat - expat-devel - gcc - krb5-libs - krb5-devel - libxml2 - libxml2-devel - nmap - openssl - openssl-devel - perl-DBD-MySQL - xmlsec1-openssl - MySQL 5 client - Nmap security scanner - OpenSSH client - Perl 5.8.x Management Node Perl Modules: The Perl modules listed below are available from CPAN (www.cpan.org) and are distributed under one or more of the following licenses: - The "Artistic License" - GNU General Public License (GPL) - GNU Library or "Lesser" General Public License (LGPL) Some of the required Perl modules may be built into your distribution. A script is provided which attempts to install the Perl modules. See the "Installing Required Perl modules" section of the INSTALLATION file. - Crypt-SSLeay http://search.cpan.org/dist/Crypt-SSLeay/ License: Perl Artistic & GPL - DBI http://search.cpan.org/dist/DBI/ License: Perl Artistic & GPL - Devel-StackTrace http://search.cpan.org/dist/Devel-StackTrace/ License: Perl Artistic & GPL - Exception-Class http://search.cpan.org/dist/Exception-Class/ License: Perl Artistic & GPL - HTML-Parser http://search.cpan.org/dist/HTML-Parser/ License: Perl Artistic & GPL - IO-Compress http://search.cpan.org/dist/IO-Compress/ License: Perl Artistic & GPL - libwww-perl http://search.cpan.org/dist/libwww-perl/ License: Perl Artistic & GPL - MailTools http://search.cpan.org/dist/MailTools/ License: Perl Artistic & GPL - Object-InsideOut http://search.cpan.org/dist/Object-InsideOut/ License: Perl Artistic & GPL - RPC-XML http://search.cpan.org/dist/RPC-XML/ License: Perl Artistic & LGPL - XML-Parser http://search.cpan.org/dist/XML-Parser/ License: Perl Artistic & GPL - YAML http://search.cpan.org/dist/YAML/ License: Perl Artistic & GPL - Digest-SHA1 http://search.cpan.org/dist/Digest-SHA1/ License: Perl Artistic & GPL Management Node Backend Conditional System Requirements: - Bare-metal and virtual machine provisioning Both bare-metal and virtual machine provisioning require a DHCP server running on the management node listening on the private network. - Bare-metal provisioning If you want to provision bare-metal or physical computers such as blades. You will need xCAT setup and working. This release supports either xCAT 1.3 or xCAT 2.x. This is useful for very large setups, very custom environments, HPC integration, automating VM host servers either ESX standard or VMware Free Server. Imaging support using xCAT 2.x is an add on feature. To enable imaging for xCAT2.X See adding support for partimage and partimage-ng to xCAT 2.x in the vcl apache wiki. - VMware virtual machine provisioning If you want to provision virtual machines on ESX,ESXi, or VMWare Free server 2.x you will need the VMware vSphere toolkit. This toolkit can be obtained from: http://www.vmware.com/support/developer/viperltoolkit/ This toolkit is a set of Perl modules. The toolkit is not required if using VMware Free server 1.x. - Windows XP/2003/Vista/2008 If provisioning Windows OS, you will need the following: - Sysprep - used for preparing Windows environments before an image is captured - Jabber Instant Message Notification(optional)s VCL has the ability to send instant message notifications using Jabber. This feature is optional and can be enabled or disabled by configuring the "jabber=[yes|no]" property in the vcld.conf file. If Jabber notification feature is enabled, the following Perl modules need to be installed: - Net-Jabber http://search.cpan.org/dist/Net-Jabber/ License: Perl Artistic and GPL - Net-XMPP http://search.cpan.org/dist/Net-XMPP/ License: LGPL - Module-Build http://search.cpan.org/dist/Module-Build/ License: Perl Artistic and GPL - XML-Stream http://search.cpan.org/dist/XML-Stream/ License: Perl Artistic and GPL - Authen-SASL http://search.cpan.org/dist/Authen-SASL/ License: Perl Artistic and GPL - Digest::SHA1 http://search.cpan.org/dist/Digest-SHA1/ License: Perl Artistic and GPL Bundled 3rd Party Software A copy of Dojo Toolkit version 1.5.0 is included in the web code under web/dojo.