[lcdproc] LCDproc v0.5 development, here we go folks :)

[William W. Ferrell]

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* Matt (madmatt@bits.bris.ac.uk)'s mailer blew these chunks:
> William W. Ferrell wrote:
>=20
> | SNMP would be a great client, to say the least. Hell, if LCDproc itself
> | could make stuff available over SNMP it'd be rather useful too.
> |=20
> | I don't understand SMTP enough yet to know if it's something we should
> | consider adding to LCDd or not.
>=20
> Yeah, I'm not entirely sure myself. Whether it gets integrated into LCDd
> or not, I don't think it's too important atm, until someone really
> understands it. For the time being, I'll write the client for the
> JetDirect in Perl and use the Net::SNMP module to do the all the SNMP
> stuff. I think it would probably get integrated into the lcdproc client
> bundle to display stats from an SNMP device of our choice...

I like your reasoning: "Let's not fsck with this until someone has some
idea what they're doing with it." :)

> | Not really ... unless I misunderstand what you mean by minor change of
> | state:
> |=20
> | Client sends to server:
> |=20
> | <update>
> |    <screen name=3D"security"/>
> |       <priority value=3D"1"/>
> |       <widget name=3D"status">DOS in progress!</widget>
> |       <widget name=3D"detail">08/24/00 09:16:55 SYN attack flood</widge=
t>
> |    </screen>
> | </update>
>=20
> OK, I'm pro-XML! That seems simple enough...

Heh. Yes, it *seems* simple enough. But we still have to parse it. I'm
dorking around now with libxml more (so far, I'm impressed) to see if I
can properly parse an XML document. Error handling and other such
trivialities (heh) can come later.

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William W. Ferrell, System Administrator, Global Crossing Ltd.
950 17th St Ste 2200, Denver, CO 80202   1.303.223.0564

To live is always desirable.
		-- Eleen the Capellan, "Friday's Child", stardate 3498.9

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