Greetings honoured monks

I have a client daemon that will be distributed to a (reasonably large) number of machines on our internal network. I need a way to remotely interogate the client for its logfiles, current version etc (this requirement is likely to expand to other methods too). I also need to be able to send it updated config files and updates to the code base. It has to be multi-platform (aix, linux, win32).

I am thinking of a simple server listening on the client and passing requests recieved to subs. Where it need to download stuff I will have it connect to a hardcoded server name to look for and grab a new version (we have control of the DNS).

I have the feeling I could spend the rest of this week reading CPAN module POD and still not really be enlightenend. Any of the above recomended or did I miss your favourite ? Is it really worth the learning curve of POE ? I don't want to start developing to some module that turns out to be broken, abandoned or buggy on one platform.

Many thanks for your time and experience,
R.

Pereant, qui ante nos nostra dixerunt!

In reply to Simple TCP server recomendations by Random_Walk

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