I am working on a system monitoring agent. A server program will run in the background on the machine to be monitored and will listen to requests from clients on a specified port. Once it receives a request, it will return the output of the requested command (df, top, etc) to the client.

In my search I decided to use the Msg.pm and RPC.pm modules written by Sriram Srinivasan in his Advanced Perl Programming book (chpt 13).

My question is: has anybody in the monastary used these modules and does anybody know of any issues associated with them?

So far so good - they _seem_ to be working for me like a charm. But I have a suspicious feeling that there might be something else out there that might offer a better solution. Plus, if anybody has any tips, I would appreciate them as well.

Thanks,
Jeff

In reply to RPC by jeffa

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post, it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":


  • Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!
  • Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.
  • Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.
  • Please read these before you post! —
  • Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:
    a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr
  • You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)
            For:     Use:
    & &amp;
    < &lt;
    > &gt;
    [ &#91;
    ] &#93;
  • Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?
  • See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.