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On Thursday, 29 July 2010 08:19:07 David Baldwin wrote:

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I've just spent a bit of time tidying up some code I've been meaning to do for ages and put on xymonton.

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http://xymonton.trantor.org/doku.php/monitors:xymonext.pm

Note that, since no one developing perl modules such as this discusses them first on the development mailing list, there are now at *least* three modules doing very similar things in different ways, with different name spaces.

I would very much like to see a single official API for each scripting language, with a good feature set, rather than 3 different ones with different but overlapping feature sets.

Totally fair call. In fact I came up with the different namespace exactly because Xymon.pm already existed in xymonton, but I didn't take the time to even look at it. I could just have cut'n'pasted the functions required into the script, but that wouldn't have achieved a great deal either.

Module Xymon.pm on xymonton is not an perl API to build and sent data or status reports to Xymon, but a set of perl object definitions to synchronize a Xymon configuration file with a configuration database. It's name was chosen by lack of both a better name and a name space in which it could be embedded. If the latter exists, I do not mind changing the name of the module.

Regards, Wim Nelis.

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