Just saw this come through. Seems like we've had numerous conversations about these types of applications in the past. Based on a quick glance, it looks like a step between the hand-coded cron scripts I've built in the past and some of the heavyweight tools
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Chris Miles</b> <<a href="mailto:miles.chris@gmail.com">miles.chris@gmail.com</a>><br>Date: Dec 6, 2007 10:13 PM
<br>Subject: EDDIE-Tool 0.36 Released<br>To: <a href="mailto:python-announce-list@python.org">python-announce-list@python.org</a><br><br><br>EDDIE-Tool 0.36 has just been released.<br><a href="http://eddie-tool.net/" target="_blank">
http://eddie-tool.net/</a><br><br>What is it ?<br>The EDDIE-Tool is an intelligent cross-platform monitoring<br>agent written entirely in Python. It provides system, network<br>and security monitoring features, with an extensive
<br>configuration facility for defining customized monitoring<br>and data collection rules.<br><br>What is new ?<br>This version has been a long time coming, but has been well<br>tested over that time. This version features many
<br>enhancements and bugfixes, some of them listed below.<br>A special thanks to Zac Stevens and Mark Taylor for their<br>contributions.<br><br>* Added support for Spread messaging as an alternative to Elvin.<br>* Implemented a DiskStatistics data collector for Linux.
<br>* More command-line options and support for running as daemon.<br>* Added a "log" action. Use it to append to a log file, log<br> via syslog, or print on the eddie tty.<br>* Variables can be set in directives, which can then be used
<br> in rule evaluation. For example, if the directive has<br> "maxcpu=30", then the rule can address this as<br> "rule='pcpu > _maxcpu'".<br>* HTTP checks support cookie persistence.
<br>* Added "DBI" directive, for database query checking.<br>* Added Solaris SMF method/manifest files to contrib.<br>* Many more enhancements and bugfixes - see<br> <a href="http://dev.eddie-tool.net/trac/browser/eddie/trunk/doc/CHANGES.txt" target="_blank">
http://dev.eddie-tool.net/trac/browser/eddie/trunk/doc/CHANGES.txt</a><br><br>Why is it interesting to Python users ?<br>Besides system and network administrators, Python users may<br>find EDDIE-Tool interesting as it is an example of a threaded,
<br>multi-platform software package, providing easy access to<br>system statistics and using Python's power to offer a dynamic<br>and programmable rules engine.<br><br>Regards,<br>Chris Miles<br><font color="#888888">
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