Mataara Documentation

Mataara is a security reporting tool that collects information on websites and their dependencies, uploading reports to a server that monitors module vulnerabilities and site configuration changes from a central location.

The primary intent of the Mataara project is to provide a system that helps site hosting and development organisations to manage and secure their software configurations across large numbers of sites.

The documentation for Mataara is organised into a number of sections:

• System Architecture
• Drupal Client
• Server
• Development
• Development Quickstart Guide

The Mataara project was created at Catalyst IT.

Name

An earlier version of this project was known as Archimedes, and a significant proportion of the code still refers to itself as such. Because naming things is hard, and there were already several other projects called Archimedes out there, it was decided to change the name to something more distinctive.

Mataara (pronounced by syllable: ma-ta-a-ra) is a word from the Māori language that means vigilance, alertness, watchfulness. (It is unrelated to the Kenyan tea factory of the same name.)