Hey monks,

I'm teaching myself OO programing in 57 very hard lessons, I'm stuck and would be pathetically grateful for some help.

I'm trying to improve Big Brother's network monitoring system by creating a hierarchial reporting/alerting scheme. Currently, bigbro treats all events individually without context, sending alerts when one of the monitored device or device's service dies. For example, take the following scenario:

hub-router -> branch-router -> branch-server -> branch-email

If branch-router goes down, branch-server and branch-email also go down because bigbro can't see them anymore, it being located closer to the hub. Thus 3 alerts potentially go out, but really only one should be sent.

Now, I have written enough so I can create objects and retreive properties - ie 

print $node->status
and I've got inheritance working so I can determine the status of a node's parent, but now I'd like to use a hash in the object to store and retreive the status of specific services for a node, say:
%smtp = (timeChanged=>99999999, status=>re)

The idea is so I can 

print $node->$smtp{status}

Can anyone point me in the right direction?

In reply to hash as an object property by dhammaBum

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