> From: Bill McCabe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2002 9:21 AM > To: modperl > Subject: Re: Non-web use for Apache/mod_perl > > > Over the last year I've been slowly working on a similar system > in my spare time > (of which I have none). To do systems monitoring and reporting I'm using > mod_perl on the front end and communicating with remote systems > via XML::RPC. > The XML::RPC server on the remote system runs local command via > perl wrappers. > These wrappers are now returning raw command output, but my next > step is to have > them convert it first to XML and then return it, where it can be > stored in a DB > (I use DB2) and/or processed by AxKit. I decided to go this way so I could > delegate the customization of the local wrappers to other admins, > because our > site uses so many different platforms (AIX, Sun, linux, BSD, all > stripes of > Windows, OS/2, AS/400, OS/390, MacOS 9, MacOS X, etc etc). So far > I've only been > monitoring and reporting disk usage, just to get up and running.
There is a nice perl/web framework for system monitoring at http://spong.sourceforge.net but it uses plain text for communications and a file tree instead of a database. Maybe you could save time by adapting it to XML and an underlying database (although a file tree on ReiserFS is not bad at all). Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
