There are many institutions that offer mirroring 
services to the community. Most of them use shell
scripts to synchronize content with the master 
servers. This approach has some major limitations:

    * Difficult maintainance
    * No useful reports
    * No data presented to the final user
    * and more

Simba was created to be the mirroring tool and to 
get more control over the mirrored content and 
(most importantly) more control over the reports
you can generate using the mirrored content data.

Using Simba, you can:

    * Create web pages with mirrors status
    * Create web pages with mirror details
    * Generate RSS feeds
    * Generate Google sitemaps
    * Generate rsync configuration files
    * ... and more

Simba is extensible and has a dynamic plugin
system. If you have some knowledge of perl, 
you can write your own plugins and extend
Simba as you wish.
