use strict;
use warnings;
use Data::Dumper;

my %nodemetrics;

my @nodelist = qw(server1 server2);

my @system_attributes = qw(memory cpu disk network);

# Initialise the hash with zeros

my ($node);
foreach $node (@nodelist) {

        foreach (@system_attributes){
                $nodemetrics{$node}{$_} = 0;
        }
}

print Dumper(\%nodemetrics);

my $string="1024|2200|30|100";
my @data = split(/\|/,$string);

my @keys = keys %{$nodemetrics{'server1'}};

my $hashref = $nodemetrics{'server1'};

@$hashref{@keys}=@data;
$nodemetrics{'server1'}=$hashref;
print Dumper (\%nodemetrics);