I've been trying to find this module (mod_snmp)- has it been released? I didn't see it on Randy's corporate server. Regarding the separate server vs. integration with Apache off the bat- I'm real nervous about the changes that I'd guess would be necessary (for instance to handle directive changes like those included in <DIRECTORY> tags on the fly or to establish a new virtual server on the fly). I'm afraid we'd get hung up by loads of changes to the core and that would take over the primary effort of eliminating the perception that Apache is hard to configure.
Working through the config files at first seems like a cleaner solution to start from also I think it lends itself to the management of many servers at once (for instance, we maintain a corporate directory of IP addresses which now much be manually folded into each and every machine on our intranet). I think once it was working it could be much more easily folded into the core but I'll defer to those with more experience in the core. Are we getting wrapped around the axle on this or is it a key issue? I see the transition into the core once we worked through all the issues and got a prototype working as a thing which can be easily handled. (Meaning most of the code would move over intact). I can send out a paper I wrote on handling data structures for this if it would help clear up my ideas. Justin
