Both replies show the sort of different approach I'm looking for.

The application will run remote scans on a group of a few thousand servers. It checks for software version and confirms function. The current monstrosity is written in /bin/sh and lacks a lot of finesse, but did provide the basic remote command set, which I am going to leverage through a new Perl-based foundation code.

Anyway, the way it will work is this: Command invoked with no flag will initiate a scan of the entire environment of anything not scanned in the last 24 hours. There will need to be command-line switches and/or arguments to specify groups of servers based on admin owner or environment, or date since last scan, or specific result codes kept in the datatabase with the scan record. In any of these cases, it will be necessary to make a call to the database to assemble a list of hosts for scanning.

So in the case of the user wanting to scan all dev hosts belonging to the Java team that scored less than 400 on the scan and haven't been scanned in one month, the command line might look like:

Scanner.pl -O java -E dev -R 400 -D 1M <\p>

Thanks for the suggestions so far. I'm getting inspired.

In reply to Re^2: DBI Application Development by justsomeguy
in thread DBI Application Development by justsomeguy

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