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Alexander

I have already searched CPAN before posting this question. But I just want the recommended and the best modules for my purpose.

1. Didn't find any module for this. Is there any?
2. Using Config::General; Is there any better/similar one?
3. better/similar than Nmap::Scanner?
4. Didn't find any module for this. Is there any?
5. Is there any single module for getting most of the info.
6. Good to go with Net::SNMP

Thanks,
Ashok

If you already researched modules, why did you not tell us the results you got in your first post? When you tell us about the results and your conclusions, that helps us gauge what your needs are.

Have you looked at the results of Log for logfiles?

Serious operating systems provide information via CIM / WMI and/or SNMP, so I'd look for that on CPAN.

[...] I just want [...] the best modules for my purpose.

Well, as usual, please define "best". What is "good" for your purpose? Lines of code? Maintainability? External dependencies? Documentation? Warm fuzzy feeling?

Alexander

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I think you need a monitoring solution, like zabbix or nagios, may be you need some of that modules to develop a plugin for any of tons monitorion solutions in the market. Search them again in cpan

Maybe you can search inside nagios plugin (there are various written in perl)

For easy XML tag "extracter" search XPATH in cpan, or use xmlstarlet

We tried even Nagios but still we need to go for our custom script which will best suit for our needs..

We tried even Nagios but still we need to go for our custom script which will best suit for our needs..

My first thought is you have failed miserably to communicate what your needs are. I can't for the life of me imagine any real world need that Nagios can't be coerced into fitting and I've seen a few that defy the term "real world"™. In one shop I worked at someone had rigged a sensor, interfaced it to a serial port on a Linux box and using nrpe sent pages to the support team when the level in the coffee pot got too low. If that could work you would have to work really hard to find a monitoring requirement that some effort and creativity won't solve.

In fact, I'm starting to think you just might be a troll.

Usually when I see someone ask a question, a bunch of folks offer solutions and the asker still says "That won't work" without saying specifically why I start thinking they just want validation that they cannot find a solution.

Didn't start out write a rant, but I did...

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Hi,

Your points 1, 3, 4, 5 are covered by builtin items and triggers inside zabbix agent

Search in zabbix doc by proc.num, net.tcp.listen, vfs.fs or vm.memory for examples

Cheers,

What you have tried and what does not work for your needs?

I need some Perl modules which can server the following purpose. To monitor up/down status of a given process.

Problem definition:

• What platform? Winbloze, *nix, VMS, or ????
• Assuming for a moment this is *nix is there a PID file I can use to determine the alleged PID of the runing process or are we going to have to search the process table?

To get the properties and values defined in some custom file (e.g an XML)

To monitor port status and health

To write a log file and consolidate a log file and monitor errors.

OPEN LOG," /var/log/mylogfile.log" or die "logging: $!";

printf LOG "Some pithy log message\n";

close LOG;
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To get general health of the server – Disk, Memory, CPU, Partition etc

To send traps to a server.

If you are trying to do system and/or network monitoring you might want to investigate Nagios or M/Monit. Where Nagios provides a means of centralized monitoring M/Monit runs on each host being monitored. M/Monit is largely Perl based and you can also mine it for "how do you do this" since you'd have the source code.

I've used both of those products (as well as other off the shelf products) in my professional world with a lot of success. I don't believe in rw-inventing the wheel when there are so many nice wheels to choose from.