Metronome is an AMQP friendly scheduler and task runner. It can be used locally as a cron replacement, or as a network-wide job executor. Events are stored via simple database rows, and optionally managed via AMQP events. Interval/time values are expressed with reasonably intuitive English phrases, ie.: 'at 2pm', or 'Starting in 20 minutes, run …

A small collection of base classes used for interacting with remote machines over ssh. With them, you can use AMQP (via Symphony) to run batch commands, execute templates as scripts, and perform any batch/remoting stuff you can think of without the need of separate client agents.