That client style sounded familiar...

This may be what you are looking for: http://sourceforge.net/projects/libmetrics

It is a metrics library that has been extracted from a larger tool http://ganglia.sourceforge.net/

Does not have any files though, I'm checking on the status now.

May save a lot of work...

Craig Cook

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