The Puma Project

The puma project: a C application for Unix systems administration
Project Name
The Puma Project
Project Goal
To create a utility to facilitate common system administration tasks such as troubleshooting, monitoring, and maintenance.

Details

 Overview

The program accepts an array of arguments each with different options and parameters. Some of these options are positional and have a different meaning that depend on its argument.

The program is written in C. It is made up of modules each belonging to a unique project that perform tasks for that particular project. It is the modularity nature of this project that make it useful, interesting and easy to debug and maintain.

This documentation can also be found at puma man.


Documentation

NAME
puma – a sys admin tool
SYNOPSIS
puma -t -v [module] [argment-1 [option-1][option-2]] [argment-2 [option-1][option-2]] … [argment-n[option-1][option-2]]
DESCRIPTION
-t Debug mode. In debug mode, the program displays the steps that will be executed without executing them.
-v Verbose output. By default the program display minimal information so that a snapshot is given. This flags triggers extra information including the steps that are being executed.
-l The Linux web stack component. Uptime will be displayed by default. If –v flag is on, then the cpu, memory, storage, and network information will also be displayed
-a The Apache web stack component
-m The MySQL web stack component
-o The Oracle web stack component
-s The Sqlite web stack component
-p The PHP web stack component
-mail The Mail component
EXAMPLES
puma -t -v [module] start -l -a -m -p -mail
puma -t -v [module] stop -l -a -m -p -mail
puma -t -v [module] restart -l -a -m -p -mail
puma -t -v [module] status -l -a -m -p -mail
puma -t -v [module] debug -l -a -m -p -mail

puma -t -v [module] backup [source]
puma -t -v [module] export [source]

puma -t -v [module] restore [source] [destination]
puma -t -v [module] import [source] [destination]

puma -t -v [module] backup [source] restore [source] [destination]
puma -t -v [module] export [source] import [source] [destination]


Development

 API

API

 References

  1. The C Programming Language, 2nd Edition
    Brian W. Kernighan, Dennis Ritchie
  2. Beej’s Guide to Unix IPC
    Brian “Beej Jorgensen” Hall
  3. Beej’s Guide to Unix IPC – PDF
    Brian “Beej Jorgensen” Hall
  4. Operating System Concepts, 8th Edition
    Abraham Silberschatz, Peter B. Galvin, Greg Gagne