Hi,

I am new to Perl and need some urgent help.Ihave to design a network management station to do te following and am strapped for time.So if anyone can point me in te ruight direction I would appreciate it very much...... 

•    Identify various devices on the network.
o    Devices include all hardware devices connected to the network i.e
+. PC’s, Servers ,Printers & Plotters
•    Ping remote hosts to verify the network connection.
o    Using Perl Commands to verify network connectivity.
•    Ping hosts along a route to isolate a hardware or software proble
+m. 
•    See what ports various machines are using.
o    Check to see what ports a device is using and what state these po
+rt are in i.e. Listening, Closed, Established….
•    Look up IP addresses of hosts using a device name.
o    Given an IP address the program will be able to look up a host ba
+sed on the IP address and return the host name.
•    Obtain information about all users logged on to a particular host
+ (important security utility for institutions such as the college).
o    Can see what student is /was logged onto a particular machine.
o    Important if machine has been tampered with e.g. passwords hacked
+.
•    Allow user obtain and configure time settings from remote hosts (
+important to allow many software packages run properly).
•    Automatically send an alert (e-mail) to the college work request 
+system detailing the detection and fault of a hardware/ software prob
+lem.

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