The goal of the Benson Distributed Monitoring System project is to make a
distributed monitoring system with the extensibility and flexibility of mod_perl.
The end goal is for system administrators to be able to script up their own
alerts and monitors into an extensible framework which hopefully lets them get
sleep at night. The communication layer uses standard sockets, and the
scripting language for the handlers is Perl. It includes command line utilities
for sending, listing, and acknowledging traps, and starting up the benson system. There is also a Perl module interface to the benson network requests.
