[op5-users] Merlin? What is it?

[Gabriel - IP Guys]

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Well, assuming the daemon implements the Merlin event protocol (which is
really simple and can be taken straight out of Merlin itself), and
Merlin
gets rid of its need to have every new poller pre-configured in its
configuration file, that setup is not far away. If I were to drop
everything else and work only on that, I'd have it ready by the end of
july.
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This is a community project, right? Does Merlin have its own mailing
list? Where do people contribute ideas, and get bleeding edge pre alpha
code?

**SNIP**
Perhaps we need to extend its capabilities to also schedule and execute
checks. With the runcmd() api I implemented for the plugins project some
years back and a fixed-time scheduler, this wouldn't be difficult at
all.
Since the connection needn't be persistent, one Merlin instance could
well serve a network of several thousand nodes, and a network of Merlin
instances would easily serve "more than you can imagine" ;-)
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Now, if there was ever a goal of a community project, that is it!