Let me start by saying that I have not written any Perl based interfaces for Netcool. Having said that, from the Netcool site:

"NETCOOL/SDK PROBE API™: Designed for partners wishing to develop their own integration from scratch, the Netcool Probe API delivers a complete library of functions, callable from C, the describe access to the Netcool ObjectServer. The Netcool Probe Developers API delivers the same technology that standard Netcool/OMNIbus Probes use, enabling developers to build probes that share the same interface and basic functionality."

Also:

"Netcool Integration Module:
Any event information on the Netcool ObjectServer that surpasses a pre-determined threshold is passed to the AlarmPoint Perl Client and sent to the AlarmPoint server. "

And from a Netcool users group (Netcoolusers):

"GOmnilist is an open-source Gnome/GTK+ based event-list for Netcool/OMNIbus. At the moment it is under heavy development but will eventually evolve to a funky alternative to the X/Motif (yuck) based event-list. BTW, it's also free. It's written in C, C++ and Perl; but I'm going to be stripping out the Perl code and rewriting it in C++ as soon as I get documentation for the Open Client libraries."


Chris
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