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widox · Guest

I am thinking of writing a program that connects to multiple servers
and pulls logs down and parses them, in addition to aggregating all the
info, most likely putting them in a database. I was just wondering
other people's thoughts about the best way to do this.. I initally
wanted it to be all web based, like PHP and Javascript. Because
ultimately I want to be able to access all parsed info from a web
interface. (but I could concievably just write static pages)

On reflection though, I think it may be better to use C++, but I'm not
exactly sure. So any thoughts/ideas whatever would be welcome!

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Maxim Yegorushkin · Guest

widox wrote:

tony_in_da_uk@yahoo.co.uk · Guest

I can only agree with Maxim... to do this elegantly in C++ requires
good, easy to use database libraries, high-level TCP libraries, and
regexp or other parsing libraries. Such libraries are available, but
in the end if all you're doing is ferrying data between these libraries
then C++ - while not doing any real harm - isn't adding any real value.

It's easy to use standard tools: there are lots of geturl/scp command
line utilities, expect can be used to automate more primitive tools,
there's cron jobs or the Windoze scheduler etc.. Your database
probably has a graphical query tool, or the ability to publish to web
pages.

Sure, C++ code would likely be a bit more "structured" than most Perl
programmer's code, but hopefully a C++ programmer writing Perl
maintains their sense of good coding style anyway.

Cheers, Tony

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Carlos Moreno · Guest

[email]tony_in_da_uk (AT) yahoo (DOT) co.uk[/email] wrote:

widox · Guest

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Maxim Yegorushkin wrote:

Tony Delroy · Guest

The moderator's right - 'tis getting off topic. So I'll keep this
brief, and ask that you try a perl, php or python newsgroup afterwards.

You can certainly put it all in one script, though I wouldn't
necessarily recommend it. If you want on-demand HTML pages generated
from the database, you'll probably want a CGI script. I can't see this
script sharing any significant functionality with the code retrieving
and parsing data to update the database, so I'd keep them separate.

I barely know python - having come away from a one-day evaluatation a
couple years ago feeling disappointed. I can confirm that perl is
suited to all the tasks, with the HTML writing being the only one of
these tasks that I can easily see turning into scrappy perl code. PHP
is very C like (which should suit you well), and may be better suited
for a HTML/CGI on-demand database display, though I'm not sure if PHP's
database access libraries are as well designed, portable and easy to
use as perl's. Can't imagine they'd be too bad.

Best of luck, Tony

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