in reply to Perl on Windows project direction
The traditional approach to system monitoring would be to use SNMP. There are many tools for about every platform under the sun to accomplish this. The second approach to poll a Windows machine for system information would be to use the WMI (also available via a module by me, DBD::WMI).
As you don't seem to do the system monitoring in a "professional" environment (which to me means SNMP), there are various possibilities:
I would avoid writing directly into a MySQL database, as that means making MySQL accessible via the internet, which likely opens up lots of vulnerabilities for little gain.
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