The new "map" command I was talking about.

Juergen Schoenwaelder (schoenw@gaertner.de)
Mon, 21 Jul 1997 01:08:50 +0200

I was talking several times about my efforts to split Tkined into a
client/server application. The basic building block is the new map
command which is a Tcl extension written in C. The purpose of the map
command is to provide the common data structure on which management
applications can be build. The map command also provides events and
bindings which allow to separate the monitoring and polling code from
the code that deals with the optained data. This will make it very
easy to drive all kind of funny hardware (pagers, relais that reboot
systems, remote controls for TV systems that turn off the TV in order
to wake up the operators) whenever thresholds are crossed etc. and it
will ensure a mucher higher degree of code reuse. The map command also
supports messages that can be kept in main memory or even logged to
files. This makes it very easy to collect statistics by starting a
polling job and adding a single binding which converts events into
messages or to show a user of a network management application what
happened in the recent past.

I talked a bit about this work in Boston. I just completed the first
version of the man page for the map command. The PostScript version is
available at:

http://wwwsnmp.cs.utwente.nl/~schoenw/scotty/docs/map.ps.gz

I am looking for all kind of suggestions and comments. The interfaces
described in the map man page have gone through several revisions and
I think that they are now getting stable. Anyway, I would like to hear
your comments and opinions about this stuff.
Juergen

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