Introduction

Inode is a small IT consultancy & services company based in Dunedin NZ. Inode specialises in Internet-facing Linux & Unix solutions, with strong interests in Open Source, overall business systems architecture and security.

Inode’s director Jim Cheetham has been working in the IT industry for over 20 years, for a range of large global companies and smaller, more personal operations.

Range of projects

Inode is currently working on a number of different projects for customers and for fun …

  • Nagios network/service status monitoring
  • Behaviour Driven Infrastructure monitoring (e.g. cucumber-nagios)
  • Linux system administration (Debian & Ubuntu)
  • pfSense firewalls for small office edge devices (VPN, traffic stats, &c)
  • Multiple-Master DNS with auto-publishing based on bazaar hooks
  • Trac installations for customer documentation & ticketing
  • Silverstripe CMS website hosting & configuration
  • Business Analysis for a vendor selection & system implementation project
  • Auto-scaling cloud compute clusters communicating via message queues
  • Provisioning subcontractor administration users via Debian Packages
  • Multi-domain email hosting systems with webmail, IMAPS, SMTP Auth &c
  • Business data domain mapping to configure workflow management software
  • Corporate systems architecture to implement solutions around secure file transfer