SCN Research Technology Stack

The Apache Project is an effort to develop and maintain an open-source HTTP server for modern operating systems including UNIX and Windows. The goal of this project is to provide a secure, efficient and extensible server that provides HTTP services in sync with the current HTTP standards.

Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) is the standard markup language for documents designed to be displayed in a web browser. It can be assisted by technologies such as Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and scripting languages such as JavaScript.

JavaScript is the programming language of HTML and the Web.

PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor is a server-side scripting language designed for Web development, but also used as a general-purpose programming language. PHP code may be embedded into HTML code, or it can be used in combination with various web template systems, web content management systems, and web frameworks.

The Apache HTTP Server is a powerful and flexible HTTP/1.1 compliant web server.

FreeBSD is an advanced computer operating system used to power modern servers, desktops, and embedded platforms.

Argus is a system and network monitoring application.

Cacti is a RRDTool-based network graphing solution.

MRTG allows monitoring traffic on a wide variety of network devices.

GNU Make is a tool which controls the generation of executables and other non-source files of a program from the program's source files. Make gets its knowledge of how to build program from a file called the makefile, which lists each of the non-source files and how to compute it from other files.

RANCID monitors a router's (or more generally a device's) configuration, including software and hardware (cards, serial numbers, etc) and uses CVS (Concurrent Version System), Subversion.

SquirrelMail is a standards-based webmail package written in PHP.