We are looking at writing our own replacement for Oracle Enterprise Manager.

We want to have a daemon that will run a series of checks against a series of databases on a server. We are thinking of having the checks that are to be run as external perl scripts (so they can be easily modified). The idea being that the controlling Daemon calls the perl scripts for the checks to be run. Each of these scripts performs it's check and writes the results to xml files which are then uploaded by the parent daemon to a central repository.

The idea would look something like this: Start Main Daemon Get Checks and frequency from central database

Does all this sound feasible? How would I go about spinning off these checks from the main daemon? Would I fork processes off the main daemon and connect to the database each time?

Process would look something like:
  Start Controlling Daemon
  Get checks and frequency from central database.
  Wake up and perform any checks that are due.
  Get callback to upload xml file to central repository.

Thanks in advance,
Jason