Thinking on a couple things

There are two ideas that have been buzzing around in my brain lately.

The first idea is a Perl CMS that is all Perl and that scales from CGI (because that is what a lot of cheaper hosting sites offer) to whatever you want to scale it up to. I don't mean scale in the traditional sense here, though I would want it to scale that way as well.

The second one is a server monitor along the lines of a Nagios but all in Perl with plugins written in Perl.

Neither of those is necessarily a "good" idea. They are just ideas. Throwing them up here to maybe tickle myself later with them.

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Munin has some similarity with Nagios.

For the Perl CMS there is Movable Type, like this blog ;-)

What I need sometimes is a good local process and service monitor, that might also be controlled in a networked manner (e.g. decide if something should be restarted if it's ok on the other node). We are using mon for that mostly, but it's quite a resource hog, due to it's fork oriented design. I started playing with an AnyEvent based daemon, that would look for more suited to this. of course such a thing cuold be used like a munin node too, delivering performance data, but then again Munin is already out there.

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