The time has come for major performance improvements to the reporter, stats-gather, alerter, and client scripts. This means that I will be rewriting the scripts in Python. A couple of reasons for this; to cut down on the number of modules that are required for the installation process (which also makes distributing the client script a simpler matter), as well as a general speed improvement. Preliminary tests have shown similar tasks in perl vs python to give python the winning hand for processing performance. In particular I’m interested in making the server-loop script, and it’s subsequent script chain, multi-threaded. This is a big change since the current polling process is serialized.

Before I start rewriting these scripts I am extending an offer to the community: if you would like particular changes or improvements (other than performance) or new additions to the scripts which control the data gathering process, please let me know. Comment on this post or email me at ’support at kontrollsoft dot c o m’ to make your recommendations now.