<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <TITLE>Message</TITLE> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2523" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY> <DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=918541620-08112004>The send_nsca logic is not simple, since it includes checksums and encryption in its data packet. This is desirable because it increases security.... I am currently deciphering it in order to modify nt_syslog so that it sends filtered alerts via NSCA instead of syslog (for simplicity) and it's rather complex. I already gave up on trying to implement it in Perl! I'd say, read the send_nsca source code. If you can't understand it, probably the task of writing a client is beyond your current coding skills.</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=918541620-08112004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Steve</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <P><FONT size=2>---<BR>Steve Shipway: ITSS, University of Auckland<BR>Email: s.shipway@auckland.ac.nz Web: <A href="http://www.steveshipway.org/">http://www.steveshipway.org/</A> <BR>** We can only discover new oceans when we have the **<BR>** courage to lose sight of the shore. **</FONT> </P></BODY></HTML>